Danny Yee
@dannyyee.bsky.social
Oxford (ex Sydney), books, transport, education, science, mathematics. Probably mostly posting about Oxford transport, with the odd book review and some pathological polymathy. For just the book reviews: https://bsky.app/profile/dannyreviews.bsky.social
_How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor_ dannyreviews.com/h/How_Drive_... (my review)
February 5, 2026 at 6:01 PM
_How to Drive a Nuclear Reactor_ dannyreviews.com/h/How_Drive_... (my review)
_Children of Mars: The Origins of Rome's Empire_ (Armstrong, @oxfordunipress.bsky.social ) dannyreviews.com/h/Children_M... (my review) - "The Roman Republic was a federation of elite families who worked together for mutual benefit, but in a highly competitive environment"
January 21, 2026 at 6:57 PM
_Children of Mars: The Origins of Rome's Empire_ (Armstrong, @oxfordunipress.bsky.social ) dannyreviews.com/h/Children_M... (my review) - "The Roman Republic was a federation of elite families who worked together for mutual benefit, but in a highly competitive environment"
Richard Davis' _Religions of Early India: A Cultural History_ (@princetonupress.bsky.social) offers a nice combination of broad themes and illustrative details, in their social and political contexts. dannyreviews.com/h/Religions_... (my review)
January 12, 2026 at 8:22 PM
Richard Davis' _Religions of Early India: A Cultural History_ (@princetonupress.bsky.social) offers a nice combination of broad themes and illustrative details, in their social and political contexts. dannyreviews.com/h/Religions_... (my review)
_Great Fear on the Mountain_ - a novel of an Alpine village and the mountain above it dannyreviews.com/h/Great_Fear... (my review)
January 11, 2026 at 6:11 PM
_Great Fear on the Mountain_ - a novel of an Alpine village and the mountain above it dannyreviews.com/h/Great_Fear... (my review)
"All the measures described are based on the premise that a balanced provision must achieve a better environment for the whole of the City, by the reduction of the number of vehicles which require to use the City's road network. ..."
December 13, 2025 at 3:18 PM
"All the measures described are based on the premise that a balanced provision must achieve a better environment for the whole of the City, by the reduction of the number of vehicles which require to use the City's road network. ..."
The challenges in defining "religion" aeon.co/essays/the-w... (Aeon) dannyreviews.com/h/Before_Rel... (my review of Nongbri's _Before Religion_)
December 13, 2025 at 9:02 AM
The challenges in defining "religion" aeon.co/essays/the-w... (Aeon) dannyreviews.com/h/Before_Rel... (my review of Nongbri's _Before Religion_)
Oxford City Council's 1973 Balanced Transport Policy. wanderingdanny.com/oxford/docs/... This was hugely progressive, abandoning road building and looking to shift trips to public transport and cycling instead.
December 10, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Oxford City Council's 1973 Balanced Transport Policy. wanderingdanny.com/oxford/docs/... This was hugely progressive, abandoning road building and looking to shift trips to public transport and cycling instead.
London's most dangerous junction for cycling has had thirty injuries in the last five years. Oxford's Plain roundabout has had forty injuries in that time.
November 20, 2025 at 8:04 PM
London's most dangerous junction for cycling has had thirty injuries in the last five years. Oxford's Plain roundabout has had forty injuries in that time.
Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City_... (my review) - "the interaction of the city's geography, planning and politics with its cycling culture, people, and infrastructure"
November 17, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Bike City Amsterdam: How Amsterdam Became the Cycling Capital of the World dannyreviews.com/h/Bike_City_... (my review) - "the interaction of the city's geography, planning and politics with its cycling culture, people, and infrastructure"
A History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems dannyreviews.com/h/History_Wa... (my review)
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
A History of Wales in Twelve Poems - short historical essays accompanied by poems dannyreviews.com/h/History_Wa... (my review)
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War dannyreviews.com/h/Europes_Tr... (my review) - "a long and involved, but rewarding, account of one of the most traumatic periods in European history"
October 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Europe's Tragedy: A New History of the Thirty Years War dannyreviews.com/h/Europes_Tr... (my review) - "a long and involved, but rewarding, account of one of the most traumatic periods in European history"
This is a huge step, with Oxford set to join a small but select number of cities which have implemented a congestion charge.
September 10, 2025 at 2:07 PM
This is a huge step, with Oxford set to join a small but select number of cities which have implemented a congestion charge.
Oral history integrated into a compelling narrative - my review of David Van Reybrouck's _Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World_ dannyreviews.com/h/Revolusi.h...
August 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Oral history integrated into a compelling narrative - my review of David Van Reybrouck's _Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World_ dannyreviews.com/h/Revolusi.h...
_The Year of the Hare_ - a journalist takes a hare on a light-hearted romp through rural Finland dannyreviews.com/h/Year_Hare.... (my review)
August 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
_The Year of the Hare_ - a journalist takes a hare on a light-hearted romp through rural Finland dannyreviews.com/h/Year_Hare.... (my review)
A Millennium of Amsterdam: Spatial History of a Marvellous City dannyreviews.com/h/Millennium... (my review)
July 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
A Millennium of Amsterdam: Spatial History of a Marvellous City dannyreviews.com/h/Millennium... (my review)
There are up to 10,000 cycle movements a day along St Clements, Cowley and Iffley Rds crossing the turning traffic using those streets as cut-throughs would create. To see what that might do, here are the (reported, decade pre-LTN) injuries at the bottom of Southfield and Divinity Rds.
July 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
There are up to 10,000 cycle movements a day along St Clements, Cowley and Iffley Rds crossing the turning traffic using those streets as cut-throughs would create. To see what that might do, here are the (reported, decade pre-LTN) injuries at the bottom of Southfield and Divinity Rds.
And ten years ago I was pushing my daughter across this junction in a buggy, and thought "this junction should just be destroyed". Then I got some traffic numbers (around 4000 cars/day in each direction) and though "no this will never happen"....
June 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
And ten years ago I was pushing my daughter across this junction in a buggy, and thought "this junction should just be destroyed". Then I got some traffic numbers (around 4000 cars/day in each direction) and though "no this will never happen"....
But I asked for these anti-pedestrian chicanes outside my daughter's secondary school to be removed and they were gone in eight months!
June 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
But I asked for these anti-pedestrian chicanes outside my daughter's secondary school to be removed and they were gone in eight months!
This is in the officer briefing "Exemptions and permits would be identical to the traffic filters (but with an additional central permit area to take account of the continued closure of the Botley Road – see Annex 4)." And this is the map in Annex 4.
June 10, 2025 at 7:32 AM
This is in the officer briefing "Exemptions and permits would be identical to the traffic filters (but with an additional central permit area to take account of the continued closure of the Botley Road – see Annex 4)." And this is the map in Annex 4.
The problem is that in the narrow central streets of Ghent, there is no choice but to cycle along or even inside the tram tracks. (In contrast, cycle tracks in Amsterdam are separated, and cross tram tracks at an angle.)
June 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
The problem is that in the narrow central streets of Ghent, there is no choice but to cycle along or even inside the tram tracks. (In contrast, cycle tracks in Amsterdam are separated, and cross tram tracks at an angle.)
There an estimated 500 admissions a year to Ghent hospitals of people cycling crashing as a result of tram tracks. libstore.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG0... (The headline here is 140, but if you read carefully the extrapolated estimate must be around 500, which is the number I was given by Ghent officers.)
June 2, 2025 at 2:20 PM
There an estimated 500 admissions a year to Ghent hospitals of people cycling crashing as a result of tram tracks. libstore.ugent.be/fulltxt/RUG0... (The headline here is 140, but if you read carefully the extrapolated estimate must be around 500, which is the number I was given by Ghent officers.)
The Slade has cycle tracks which give up completely at the junctions, and Old Rd, Hollow Way, and London Rd are awful for cycling. Kids trying to get to Cheney from Barton or Risinghurst have the additional challenge of crossing the ring-road, with poor quality underpasses or dangerous crossings.
May 30, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The Slade has cycle tracks which give up completely at the junctions, and Old Rd, Hollow Way, and London Rd are awful for cycling. Kids trying to get to Cheney from Barton or Risinghurst have the additional challenge of crossing the ring-road, with poor quality underpasses or dangerous crossings.
The dropped kerb isn't on the pedestrian desire line either.
May 28, 2025 at 3:42 PM
The dropped kerb isn't on the pedestrian desire line either.
At the Barton Park crossing of the A40 there is a choice between using the pedestrian crossing or cycling across the junction on the carriageway.
May 13, 2025 at 3:47 PM
At the Barton Park crossing of the A40 there is a choice between using the pedestrian crossing or cycling across the junction on the carriageway.