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75-year-old cyclist suffers broken pelvis and collarbone in yet another...
A 75-year-old from West Sussex has suffered multiple serious injuries, including a broken pelvis and collarbone, as well as soft tissue damage after falling off her bike as she hit a pothole, and has...
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Conservative MP dismisses cyclist safety concerns over longer lorries on UK...
Tory MP and road minister Richard Holden has defended the UK Government’s plan to allow longer lorries on UK roads and dismissed concerns raised by campaigners that it could increase the risk to...
View ArticleSustrans says cycling schemes and 21 jobs are at risk due to potential...
Active travel charity Sustrans has claimed that 21 jobs and a range of schemes designed to encourage cycling amongst schoolchildren and people from Scotland’s poorest areas are at risk due to ongoing...
View ArticleSuella Braverman criticised by cycling campaign group for “avoiding public...
London Cycling Campaign has criticised Home Secretary Suella Braverman for not taking the dangers of speeding on road seriously after she committed an offence and allegedly requested civil servants to...
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Tory London mayoral candidate plans to end Sadiq Khan’s “attack on drivers”...
Dan Korski, one of the candidates for the London mayor elections from the Conservative Party, has vowed to end Sadiq Khan’s “attack on drivers” by unveiling a milieu of radical traffic changes, such as...
View ArticleCouncil's free bike initiative praised... but “huge issue” of safe cycling...
Cycling campaign groups have welcomed Ealing Council’s plan of giving out 2,500 free bikes to Southall residents as “laudable”, but also argued that lack of bicycle ownership is not the only reason...
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Government faces legal challenge on cut to cycling investment
The government is facing a legal challenge from a campaign group over its cut to investment in walking and cycling in England, as lawyers acting on behalf of Transport Action Network (TAN) have written...
View ArticleCycling and walking targets “in tatters”: Damning report finds government...
Cycling campaign groups have claimed that plans to boost cycling and walking in England are “in tatters”, after a damning report by the government’s official spending watchdog found that the Department...
View Article“If mandatory safety measures are acceptable for car drivers, they should...
A Conservative MP has called for the government to make wearing a helmet while cycling a legal requirement, and argued that if mandatory safety measures are acceptable for motorists, they “should...
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“What will it take?”: Residents hit out at council for ignoring dangerous...
Glasgow residents have criticised the council for not listening to their warnings about motorists speeding and driving dangerously in the neighbourhood for almost five years, after a 64-year-old...
View ArticleCyclists blast Italian government’s “extremely worrying” plans to introduce...
Less than a year since the UK’s then-Transport Secretary Grant Shapps pledged to bring in registration plates for cyclists, before almost immediately backtracking on his comments, his Italian...
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Angry residents who slammed “ridiculous” traffic restrictions ahead of UCI...
Residents of a Dumfries street who complained that they were facing “unacceptable, impractical, and ridiculous” traffic restrictions during the para-cycling time trial events at this August’s UCI...
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Italy’s Deputy PM Salvini backpedals on number plates for cyclists – “It’s...
Italy’s Deputy Prime Minister and Transport and Infrastructure Minister Matteo Salvini has backpedalled on introducing draconian laws for cyclists, insisting that rules he told the country’s...
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Richmond Park's Lib Dem MP blames Tory Government for “effectively...
Richmond Park MP Sarah Olney has accused the Conservative Government of “effectively decriminalising bike theft” after data uncovered by the Liberal Democrats showed that almost 90 per cent of cases...
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Government will struggle to introduce 'death by dangerous cycling' law before...
The introduction of a 'death by dangerous cycling' law, proposed by then-Transport Secretary Grant Shapps last year, is unlikely to be passed before the next general election due to a lack of...
View ArticleLondon launches new Cycling Action Plan in push for greater diversity
Transport for London (TfL) has launched a new Cycling Action Plan with the aim of increasing the number of journeys made in the capital by bike by a third by the end of the decade, with encouraging...
View ArticleZig-zag corners on “moronic” Edinburgh cycleway to be replaced to improve...
“Zig-zag” corners on a cycleway in Edinburgh that has been branded as “moronic” and “an accident waiting to happen” are to be ripped out and replaced to make it safer for cyclists after a council...
View ArticleCouncil says 'Danny MacAskill' staircase cycle path is an "interim measure"...
While our readers were left wondering yesterday if the cycling staircase was a stairway to A&E, or commissioned by Danny MacAskill himself, Plymouth City Council has confirmed to road.cc that it is...
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Seafront cycle scheme with “Mickey Mouse” layout that made council into a...
North Somerset Council has announced an independent review of the changes to Clevedon seafront following alleged concerns from businesses and residents, however the anti-cycle lane campaigners, who...
View ArticleNo change in cycling casualties over 10 years in Northern Ireland called...
Cycling UK has slammed the Stormont’s “lack of movement in reducing cyclist casualties in 10 years” as “shameful”, after latest figures published by the Northern Ireland Government showed the number of...
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