Cycling Scotland conference to look at how to get Scots into the saddle
Cycling experts and transport heads will explore how to encourage a more diverse range of people onto two wheels in Scotland in a major cycling conference next week.Scottish Minister for Transport,...
View ArticleLondon's deputy mayor confirms 2017 consultations on long awaited Cycle...
London’s deputy mayor for transport, Val Shawcross, has confirmed that consultations will be held next year into two long-awaited Cycle Superhighways originally announced by former mayor Ken...
View ArticleDutch city Groningen to spend €85 per head each year on cycling (+ video)
A city in the Netherlands that already has the world’s highest modal share for cycling – a whopping 60 per cent – is to spend an astonishing €85 euro per head of population in each of the next five...
View ArticleBoris Johnson banned from cycling by security team
Boris Johnson has been banned from riding his bike on public roads by police bodyguards who have deemed it to be too much of a security risk.The Sun reports that Johnson was ordered to give up cycling...
View ArticleAndrew Gilligan steps up pressure on Sadiq Khan to deliver cycling...
Former London cycling commissioner Andrew Gilligan has joined forces with award-winning blogger Danny Williams and others to form a group, Human Streets, that aims to keep the pressure on Mayor of...
View ArticleGovernment must "stop dithering" after High Court air pollution ruling
ClientEarth’s High Court victory over the Government’s failure to tackle illegal air pollution in the UK means the time has come to “stop dithering” and rebalance roads investment towards cycling and...
View ArticleAll Isle of Wight towns could be 20mph after landmark vote
The Full Council of the Isle of Wight has voted for 20mph limits in built up areas.Eighty per cent of the island’s councillors supported the motion at the end of last month for slower speed limits on...
View ArticleHouses may be demolished in New Zealand to make way for cycleway
Here’s something opponents to London’s proposed Cycle Superhighway 11 haven’t been able to list in their many grievances against the project – houses in Christchurch, New Zealand, may be demolished to...
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200 people cycle in support of Glasgow's Bears Way
Two hundred people turned up to cycle in support of the beleaguered Bears Way protected bike route near Glasgow yesterday. The advocacy ride follows a 2,800-signature petition calling for the reversal...
View ArticleCampaigners call for early ban on dangerous HGVs
London Mayor, Sadiq Khan, should bring forward a ban on London’s most dangerous lorries, following the death of the third cyclist in an HGV collision this year, say campaigners.Earlier this year...
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Bikes outnumber cars in Copenhagen traffic for first time
Bicycles now outnumber cars in Copenhagen’s traffic, according to new figures released by the city authorities of Denmark’s capital.According to the latest traffic count conducted by the city, 265,700...
View ArticleKingston's Portsmouth Road cycle tracks finally complete
A new cycle route, two years in the making, finally opened this week.The final touches were added to the 1400m fully segregated riverside route, on Portsmouth Road in Kingston upon Thames on Tuesday,...
View ArticleNorthern Ireland unveils £150m, 1,000km, Greenway network
Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure has unveiled plans for a £150 million network of greenways covering 1,000 kilometres across the country.The plans for the network, to be built in...
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Cambridge to get its first true "Dutch" roundabout
A Dutch-style roundabout was given approval last week to improve a collision blackspot in Cambridge, in what local campaigners are calling a “step change” in standards for cycling infrastructure.The...
View ArticlePetition demanding cyclists be licensed, taxed & insured rewritten after...
A motorist who began a petition calling on cyclists to be licensed and insured and pay ‘Road Tax’ has rewritten the text of it after inaccuracies were pointed out to him including that the term hasn’t...
View ArticleBoardman makes clarification following latest revelation over "scrapped"...
Chris Boardman has clarified his part in discussions with London’s deputy mayor for transport, Val Shawcross, following reports a protected cycle route on the Westway are to be cancelled.Boardman, who...
View ArticleCadel Evans says he won’t ride his bike in Sydney – because it’s too...
Former world champion and Tour de France winner Cadel Evans says he won’t ride his bike in Sydney – because he believes it's too intimidating for cyclists.The 39-year-old, whose Australian home is in...
View ArticleUpdate: Cycle to Work Scheme safe from 'salary sacrifice' cuts
Bicycle tax exemption initiative, the Cycle to Work Scheme, is set to be protected from cuts to 'salary sacrifice' perks as the Chancellor of the Exchequer Phillip Hammond prepares to announce a raft...
View ArticleChancellor offered to pay Mayor to rip up London's East–West Cycle...
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has urged the Mayor of London to decommission the city’s East–West Cycle Superhighway, according to the leader of Ealing Council. Julian Bell is reported by BikeBiz to...
View Article"A nice little cash cow" as New South Wales cyclists are fined $1.3 million...
“Nothing more than a nice little cash cow for the government,” is how Penny Sharpe, environment spokeswoman for Australia’s Labor party, describes the fines that have been issued to cyclists in New...
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