Deliveroo drivers voice concerns over zero hour contracts as strikes continue
Deliveroo cyclists have voiced concerns to road.cc about receiving below the National Living Wage if proposed changes to contracts are made, as strikes are set to continue for the fifth day running...
View ArticleYorkshire submits bid for 2019 UCI Road World Championships
British Cycling and Welcome to Yorkshire have submitted a bid to host the 2019 UCI Road World Championships, backed by the government and UK Sport.The bid was officially announced by Prime Minister...
View ArticleNewport backs down on city centre cycle ban
Newport City Council and Gwent Police have backed down on a city centre cycling ban after realising they hadn’t read the traffic order correctly and couldn’t bar cycling for as long as they wanted...
View ArticleNewport cycling ban row rumbles on
The Newport cycling ban row rumbles on…as police and the city council both say the other one is responsible for it. Last month it was announced police would be enforcing a traffic order, brought into...
View ArticleRide supporting safe cycle route cancelled - because road is too dangerous
A group in Oxfordshire campaigning for a safe cycling and walking route along a busy road have been told by the police and local council that they cannot hold a planned Sunday afternoon ride there next...
View ArticleRio medallists urge Theresa May to invest in everyday cycling (+ video)
10 of Team GB’s medal winning cyclists from Rio have written to Prime Minister Theresa May to say that the best way to honour their achievements would be to put in place “a legacy of every-day cycling”...
View ArticleSadiq Khan gives go-ahead to completion of North-South Superhighway amid...
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has given the go-ahead the completion of the capital’s North-South Cycle Superhighway after more than two in three respondents to a public consultation said they supported...
View ArticleFirst six Greater Manchester Cycleways officially opened
Transport for Greater Manchester (TfGM) has officially launched the first six cycleways under its £42 million Cycle City programme, and is encouraging people to switch to two wheels for their...
View ArticleFunding pulled for cycling projects in Dublin, current projects suspended
Work on cycling projects in Dublin has been suspended with traffic engineers diverted to the expansion of the city’s Luas light rail system in what has been described as “a major setback” for cycling...
View ArticleEnfield starts work on A105 Mini Holland project
Enfield is poised to begin work on the first phase of its £42 million Mini Holland project– starting with a segregated cycle lane on the A105.The councillor in charge of the project says “future...
View ArticleUPDATED: Sadiq Khan's office says fears over London's cycling budget...
UPDATED: Mayor of London Sadiq Khan's office say it is "complete nonsense that the capital's cycling budget risks being cut - although he acknowledged this morning that the amount of money allocated to...
View ArticleMuhammad Ali remembered as 100 bikes given to kids in his home city
A stolen bike famously led to Muhammad Ali discovering boxing – and now, 100 bicycles have been donated in memory of the late world heavyweight champion, who died in June, to children in Louisville,...
View ArticleOxford campaigners say cycling 'improvements' at key junction aren't working
Cycling campaigners in Oxford have called for private cars to be excluded from parts of the city centre to encourage more people to take to two wheels and claim that a £1.35 million scheme to make a...
View Article£3m cycling bridge in Melbourne faces demolition - just 2 years after it opened
A £3 million cycle bridge across a railway line in Melbourne, Australia, faces demolition just two years after it was opened – so a freeway can be widened.The bridge, which crosses a freight railway...
View ArticleCycling UK backs High Court challenge to Mansfield’s ‘cycling ASBOs’
Cycling UK says it is supporting six cyclists in an appeal against Mansfield District Council’s imposition of a Public Space Protection Order that makes riding a bike through parts of the centre of the...
View ArticleVideo: Women in Iran defy fatwa forbidding them from cycling
Women in Iran have reacted to a fatwa issued by the country’s supreme leader that forbids them from cycling by posting videos and photographs to social media that show them riding bikes.Among the first...
View ArticleFive per cent increase in London cycling in a year
Cycling in London has increased by five per cent in the first quarter of this year compared to 2015, according to the latest report from the capital’s transport body.The report by Transport for London...
View ArticleSchoolkids in Reading to be given bikes to combat lateness
Children at a school in Reading are to be given bicycles in a bid to curb disruption to lessons through lateness – and they will be allowed to keep them should they hit attendance targets during the...
View ArticleZimbabwe introduces bicycle licensing... 12 months' jail for those who don't pay
Zimbabwe is to impose a new mandatory bicycle fee. ZimNews.net reports that failure to pay will see a cyclist lose their bike and potentially face 12 months imprisonment.The new system is to be tested...
View ArticleFury over Government cycling HGV warning video
The Department for Transport’s (DfT) THINK campaign has come under heavy criticism for releasing a video which appears to blame a cyclist for a collision with a left turning lorry.The clip, which shows...
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