Drivers who parked their cars on a pavement in Manchester earlier this month had their vehicles daubed with the word ‘move’ and some had windows smashed. Clearly such behaviour is criminal, but perhaps it was inevitable that the issue of pavement parking would eventually reach such a flash point. Elsewhere, pedestrians forced into the road because of anti-social parking by…
There isn’t a winter ride that can’t be improved by a coffee stop, and it’s better still if you don’t have to rely on finding a cafe. The Bripe is a small, lightweight copper and silver pipe designed to make coffee in the great outdoors. Better still, you don’t need electricity, a gas stove, kettle or pot so it’s cycling friendly.…
In the interests of saving money – not to mention the world – we need to view cars as we do toasters; useful tools as opposed to a lifestyle choice. The Citroen Ami aims to do just that and if you were being unkind, you might say it’s styled like a kitchen appliance – so perhaps it’s done half the…
Pedestrians trying to negotiate city streets get so little respect from motorists that many may welcome a new design of portable air horn that can blast an ear-splitting 150dB warning to inattentive drivers. No more worrying that drivers haven’t noticed you’re crossing a side street – the horn produces a sound claimed to be as loud as a jet taking…
When you accidentally spill coffee on your trousers, that’s one thing, but if a driver’s speeding car slams into a bus stop, killing a child in the process, it’s clearly different…so why does the language we use rarely distinguish between the two? While one can be dismissed as an accident, the other deserves to be described more carefully – nothing…
