NHS trial to prescribe cycling to patients to improve physical and mental...
Doctors and health workers at the NHS will be able to prescribe walking and cycling to patients as a part of a trial to improve their physical and mental health, and a funding of £13.9 million has been...
View ArticleTransport Secretary calls for LTN review, blames "controversial" schemes for...
Transport Secretary Mark Harper has suggested local authorities review "controversial" or unpopular low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs), and blamed the active travel schemes for "banning" cars, "making...
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Warning signs could have saved cyclist’s life who hit pothole and died in her...
A cyclist who lost her life in her daughter’s arms after hitting a pothole in a Derbyshire, of which the council had been made aware of after other cyclists had also fallen on the same road in the...
View Article“The road is yours only if you own a car?”: Cyclist couple challenge council...
A couple who decided to make a small DIY parking space for their cargo bike outside their home in Bristol have been asked by the council to either remove it themselves or have it removed by the...
View ArticleHighway Code updates, low traffic neighbourhoods, and 20mph zones behind...
Cycling UK has claimed that an increasing number of road safety measures, including the introduction of liveable neighbourhoods, 20mph zones, and last year’s updates to the Highway Code, are behind the...
View ArticleCouncillor slams cyclists riding “at breakneck speed” on pavement, as police...
Police in Lancashire are cracking down on cyclists riding on the pavement while road closures are in place, after the local authority claimed the footpath-using cyclists were “causing risk to public...
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Council pays cyclist five-figure settlement over "harrowing" pothole crash
A cyclist received a five-figure settlement from Essex County Council after suffering multiple fractures and other injuries in a crash caused by a pothole.The council admitted partial liability for the...
View ArticleCampaigners hit out at plans for non-protected cycle lanes on part of...
The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, which in December 2020 ripped out protected cycle lanes on Kensington High Street just weeks after they were installed, has revealed plans to put new...
View ArticleFinish of UCI Cycling World Championships events moved after road closure...
As Scotland prepares to host the inaugural UCI Cycling World Championships in just under a fortnight’s time, the sport’s governing body has confirmed that the finish of two of the upcoming events has...
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Scottish First Minister urged to intervene as strike action threatens to...
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf has been urged by trade unions to intervene in a pay dispute, as councillors claim that the upcoming UCI Cycling World Championships in Glasgow could be...
View Article“Systemic failure” of National Highways to apply own design standards...
National Highways, the government-owned company charged with maintaining and improving England’s major roads, has been accused of “endangering cyclists” through a “systemic failure” to apply its own...
View Article"Upholding ULEZ good news for all cyclists": Cycling groups welcome High...
Cycling groups along with climate and clean air campaigns in the UK have welcomed the High Court's ruling of the ULEZ expansion into Greater London as lawful, claiming that the step will not only...
View ArticleRishi Sunak accused of seeking to exploit division over LTNs as he orders...
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has been urged not to use low traffic neighbourhoods (LTNs) as a “political football” after he ordered the Department for Transport (DfT) to undertake a review of them, a...
View Article“Shared-use path” signs to be put up after pedestrian’s “resentment” towards...
Several changes are being planned for cycle paths in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire, including putting up signs indicating “shared-use path” and updating the town's cycle maps, after a 77-year-old cyclist...
View ArticleLabour reportedly drops plans for nationwide ULEZ rollout
Labour has reportedly dropped plans for a nationwide rollout clean air zones, similar to London’s Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) should it regain power in the next general election.The news, reported...
View ArticleGovernment’s Fix My Bike scheme hailed a success in getting more people...
A detailed report into the government’s Fix Your Bike voucher scheme, launched in 2020 at the height of the coronavirus pandemic, has found that less than half of the 400,000 vouchers issued were...
View Article“They are supposed to keep bikes safe”: Councillor disappointed at “extremely...
An Edinburgh councillor has expressed her disappointed at the "extremely light" bicycle racks that can be "easily unscrewed" and hoisted up in the air, joining other cyclists to warn that these newly...
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"Out of control" potholes put cyclists in danger, as councillor blames...
Councillors in Oxfordshire from multiple political parties have spoken out about the ongoing pothole issues in the county, putting cyclists in danger and causing a large number of compensation claims...
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Pimlico Plumbers founder Charlie Mullins suspended from Twitter after posting...
Charlie Mullins, the Pimlico Plumbers founder who claimed in 2020 that “cycle fascists” were making van journeys longer, has been suspended from X, formerly known as Twitter, after posting a series of...
View Article"Depressing" decrease in cycling traffic due to government's "flawed"...
Cycling UK has called latest findings showing that cycling traffic dropped by 5 per cent from last year "depressing", blaming the UK Government's "flawed"decision to slash the active travel budget,...
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