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Radnor Park roundabout proposal, Folkestone
Radnor Park roundabout proposal, Folkestone (Image Credit: Folkestone and Hythe District Council)

“This green initiative ensures that I now drive around to avoid it”: Revamped roundabout leaves residents baffled by a segregated bike lane; Movistar man plays the bicycle; Brennan signs Visma contract extension + more on the live blog

It’s Friday and Callum has decided there are better things to be doing than spending his wage and queuing for World Cup tickets, so he’s here instead…
  • by Callum Devereux
Fri, Dec 12, 2025 09:36
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SUMMARY

  • “The path to nowhere”: Ministry of Defence blocks final 15m of new cycling and walking route
  • Matthew Brennan signs contract extension at Visma-Lease a Bike
  • Groupama-FDJ pro cyclists fined €100 for ‘riding through red light’ during Spanish training camp
  • Movistar's Kraftwerk impersonator upstages team presentation
  • Quick release comes in handy...
  • Van der Poel's Cyclocross bike revealed
  • Reform UK council hails “excellent” new bike path... after party called them a "waste of money"
  • Reviewing 2026 team kits (so far)
  • Ayuso and Pedersen to the Tour de France for Lidl-Trek
  • Trek recalls 700 electric road and gravel bikes due to loose chainrings, as brand tells customers to stop riding immediately
  • "This green initiative ensures that I now drive around to avoid it": Revamped roundabout leaves residents baffled by a segregated bike lane
Radnor Park roundabout proposal, Folkestone
Radnor Park roundabout proposal, Folkestone (Image Credit: Folkestone and Hythe District Council)
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12 December 2025, 09:36

“The path to nowhere”: Ministry of Defence blocks final 15m of new cycling and walking route

I like this story. Partly because Ryan’s headline evokes Talking Heads. Partly because it makes me wonder if the Ministry of Defence want to inspire a new generation of cyclocross talent in Fife by forcing cyclists to cross an unmarked stretch of grass through the depths of winter. The mind boggles…

> “The path to nowhere”: Ministry of Defence accused of “pettiness” for blocking completion of new cycling and walking route to school – and threatening to fence off 15-metre section if children use it in “nonsensical” row

Ministry of Defence blocks completion of new cycling and walking path near Caledonia High School, Rosyth main
Ministry of Defence blocks completion of new cycling and walking path near Caledonia High School, Rosyth main (Image Credit: David Barratt)
Ministry of Defence blocks completion of new cycling and walking path near Caledonia High School, Rosyth main
Ministry of Defence blocks completion of new cycling and walking path near Caledonia High School, Rosyth main (Image Credit: David Barratt)

12 December 2025, 09:36

Matthew Brennan signs contract extension at Visma-Lease a Bike

One of our favourite stories to watch this year has been the rise and unstoppable rise of Matthew Brennan. 

Matthew Brennan wins stage one, 2025 Volta a Catalunya
Matthew Brennan wins stage one, 2025 Volta a Catalunya (Image Credit: Visma-Lease a Bike)
Matthew Brennan wins stage one, 2025 Volta a Catalunya
Matthew Brennan wins stage one, 2025 Volta a Catalunya (Image Credit: Visma-Lease a Bike)

The 20-year old sprint sensation has taken 12 pro wins this year, including outsprinting Jonathan Milan at the Deutschland Tour and winning the overall at the Tour of Norway having finished first or second in every stage. The future is bright…

And now with Olav Kooij moving to Decathlon next year, Visma have moved quickly to tie down the services of their marquee fast man.

⏱️ We are just getting started …

Matthew stays until the end of 2029! pic.twitter.com/iGbjeiZ4bA

— Team Visma | Lease a Bike (@vismaleaseabike) December 12, 2025

Tied down to 2029, how Brennan and Wout van Aert will combine in the classics and support Jonas Vingegaard will be fascinating to watch.

12 December 2025, 09:36

Groupama-FDJ pro cyclists fined €100 for ‘riding through red light’ during Spanish training camp

What’s “fixed penalty notice” in Spanish?

> “So, you don’t respect the Highway Code?” 10 Groupama-FDJ pro cyclists fined €100 for ‘riding through red light’ during Spanish training camp, according to reports

Groupama-FDJ riders fined by Spanish police during training camp
Groupama-FDJ riders fined by Spanish police during training camp (Image Credit: Ewen Costiou/Strava)
Groupama-FDJ riders fined by Spanish police during training camp
Groupama-FDJ riders fined by Spanish police during training camp (Image Credit: Ewen Costiou/Strava)

12 December 2025, 09:36

Movistar's Kraftwerk impersonator upstages team presentation

I could write about the calendar revelations of Enric Mas and new signing Cian Uijtdebroeks. I could write about the new kit of the Spanish team. But that doesn’t matter. Nothing matters compared to this…

Day three of team media days and no team will rival Movistar’s dedication to a bizarre but beautiful opening act. The rest of the event? Quite chaotic. I do hope Cian Uijtdebroeks is aware that Movistar isn’t like Visma and Bora.

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— Chrissy Marshall-Bell (@cmbreports.bsky.social) 11 December 2025 at 20:06

A man playing a bicycle like a harp, with a synthesiser and flute-like instrument fashioned out of handlebars. I am utterly obsessed. Florian Schneider, the Kraftwerk co-founder whose Tour de France music video bicycle and array of electronics and vocoders recently sold at auction, would surely be proud.

The full fantastic spectacle is 5 minutes long and starts 5 minutes into their official team presentation that you can watch below…

12 December 2025, 09:36

Quick release comes in handy...

 
 
 
 
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12 December 2025, 09:36

Van der Poel's Cyclocross bike revealed

We’ve been loving the reaction and analysis you’ve been giving us on our deep dive on Factor’s new speed machine.

In that spirit, albeit from a distinctly less technical perspective, Alpecin-Deceuninck have unveiled the cyclocross bike that Mathieu van der Poel will ride this winter, starting on Sunday in Namur. 

 
 
 
 
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A post shared by Alpecin-Deceuninck (@alpecindeceuninck)

It is, in my humble opinion, a lovely bit of kit and likely to be caught quite a bit on camera in the coming weeks, with Van der Poel ultimately aiming to win a record-breaking eighth World Championship, taking the record outright from Erik De Vlaeminck, older brother of Roger. Any excuse to share an old Panini sticker…

Erik De Vlaeminck and Mathieu van der Poel
Erik De Vlaeminck and Mathieu van der Poel (Image Credit: Panini / Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)
Erik De Vlaeminck and Mathieu van der Poel
Erik De Vlaeminck and Mathieu van der Poel (Image Credit: Panini / Alex Whitehead/SWpix.com)

12 December 2025, 09:36

Reform UK council hails “excellent” new bike path... after party called them a "waste of money"

Admittedly, hypocrisy in politics is hardly new. Still, this is slightly galling, not least because Reform are taking credit for the infrastructure projects agreed by the council long before they even won control of the council in May. And considering what the party has previously said on the subject of cycle lanes.

Ryan has the full write-up here: 

> From the party that brought you ‘cycle lanes are a waste of money’: Reform UK council hails “excellent” new bike path, celebrating “safer and greener environment for everyone”

Reform-led council and local students opens new Station Link cycle route in Corby
Reform-led council and local students opens new Station Link cycle route in Corby (Image Credit: Tresham College)
Reform-led council and local students opens new Station Link cycle route in Corby
Reform-led council and local students opens new Station Link cycle route in Corby (Image Credit: Tresham College)

12 December 2025, 09:36

Reviewing 2026 team kits (so far)

It’s Friday afternoon. You should probably be working, I need things to type about. Any important breaking news will probably break at 5pm just as we’re all clocking off. So until then, let’s look at some of the team kits that we’ll have to get used to next year, based off my scraping and sourcing of rights-free images…

2026 team kit montage
2026 team kit montage (Image Credit: Publicity photos)
2026 team kit montage
2026 team kit montage (Image Credit: Publicity photos)

Do you like my collage? Do you like how the smaller World Tour teams that barely changed a thing are confined to a small corner? Let’s not knock it. There’s a brand there, an identity that smaller teams often need to cling to. And FDJ’s kit is technically a switch, it’s just reusing the special Tour de France kit that everyone who watches the sport has already seen this year. Uno-X’s kit is fine as well, so long as I don’t have the misfortune of hearing Carlton Kirby describe it as “lipsticks and custard” again.

Right, let’s go clockwise. Decathlon and Red Bull are moving into the big leagues. A more parochial French team might dance with brown shorts, but a mega team sponsored by a shipping giant has to go blue. A nice hue and fade presumably represents the explosivity and excitement that racing amid a wave of calm can bring. Or something like that. Red Bull go white, the sleeve contrast is a nice touch but the coloured horizontal stripes might upset the Volta a Catalunya organisers who have for decades maintained a niche of white leaders jerseys with thin coloured stripes. 

Movistar have cleaned things up a little bit, the plain white, bold m is a marketing dream. Nothing more needs to be said, nothing more can be said that will compare to the joy of a Movistar man playing a bicycle. 

Lidl-Trek have made small moves, bold colours remain, blocks swapped for patterns over the chest, but nothing to stop you liking the team. In a world of dictatorships  and fossil fuels, what’s not to like about a German discount supermarket? (Ever attentive Ryan has since noticed that ‘stomach sponsor’ ServiceNow are an AI company, specifically an “AI control tower for business reinvention”. So a black mark on that front after all.)

Onto the home straight and two beauties sandwich mediocrity. Pastel colours, a funky sort of collage effect, SD Worx is a sight for sore eyes and one I can get used to as Kopecky, Wiebes, Bredewold et al. cause havoc. The same can be said for NSN. Apparently inspired by Barcelona, the Spanish-Swiss team have moved on from the saga of Israel-Premier Tech in the best way possible, with a kit that I genuinely want to own. It’s warm, distinct, multi-coloured and multi-patterned. Like my approach to Eurovision, I admire the stuff with chutzpah, the courage to be weird, wacky and potentially terrible. But NSN’s isn’t terrible, it’s tremendous.

What a pity that we end with UAE, though compared with last year’s black splodges that resembled oil stains, the red and black triangles are an upgrade. But where’s the interesting bit, the je ne sais quoi? Maybe I’m biased with the knowledge it’s a jersey we’ll be condemned to watch endlessly as Tadej Pogacar, with his added rainbow stripes, or Isaac Del Toro, chomping at his heel, accelerate away with 30km remaining of a spring classic.

Anyway, this was fun…

12 December 2025, 09:36

Ayuso and Pedersen to the Tour de France for Lidl-Trek

Lidl-Trek team photo 2025
Lidl-Trek team photo 2025 (Image Credit: Lidl-Trek)
Lidl-Trek team photo 2025
Lidl-Trek team photo 2025 (Image Credit: Lidl-Trek)

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, training camp season. After drip feeds of rider calenders in the past few days, today’s details come from Lidl-Trek. After winning the points jersey in every men’s Grand Tour last year, but suffering GC heartbreak on the parts of Giulio Ciccone and Mattias Skjelmose, the team swooped in to prise a disgruntled Juan Ayuso from the soap opera of UAE.

And it’s been confirmed that Ayuso will be the team’s GC leader at the Tour de France next year, and will be accompanied by Mads Pedersen, who is chasing his own complete set of Grand Tour points jerseys.

Ayuso, who podiumed the Vuelta a Espana at the age of 19, has set himself the same goal for Paris and will have an intense racing schedule leading up to the showpiece, racing Paris-Nice, the Tour of the Basque Country, the Ardennes classics, and the Tour Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes (formerly the Criterium du Dauphine) in the four months before July. 

Skjelmose, for his part also a white jersey winner at the Vuelta, will race the Ardennes and the Tour de France, the latter in support of his new teammate. Whether Lidl-Trek can come close to challenging the behemoths of UAE, Visma and newly-rich Red Bull remains to be seen. Racing for both yellow and green can work, not least when Wout van Aert turned domestique-deluxe for Jonas Vingegaard in 2022.

Tiesj Benoot, Jonas Vingegaard, Wout van Aert, Christophe Laporte, 2022 Tour de France
Tiesj Benoot, Jonas Vingegaard, Wout van Aert, Christophe Laporte, 2022 Tour de France (Image Credit: Zac Williams/SWpix.com)
Tiesj Benoot, Jonas Vingegaard, Wout van Aert, Christophe Laporte, 2022 Tour de France
Tiesj Benoot, Jonas Vingegaard, Wout van Aert, Christophe Laporte, 2022 Tour de France (Image Credit: Zac Williams/SWpix.com)

12 December 2025, 09:36

Trek recalls 700 electric road and gravel bikes due to loose chainrings, as brand tells customers to stop riding immediately

Do you like reading about wobbly American bicycles? Have we got a story for you…

> Trek recalls 700 electric road and gravel bikes due to loose chainrings, as brand tells customers to stop riding immediately

Trek Checkpoint+
Trek Checkpoint+ (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)
Trek Checkpoint+
Trek Checkpoint+ (Image Credit: Farrelly Atkinson)

12 December 2025, 09:36

"This green initiative ensures that I now drive around to avoid it": Revamped roundabout leaves residents baffled by a segregated bike lane

Maybe people don’t like Levelling Up after all…

Today’s dose of local internet comes from Folkestone (congrats to them) where readers of Kent Online seem baffled by the installation of a segregated cycle lane and new zebra crossings at the Radnor Park roundabout, close to Folkestone railway station.

> “They started waving and smiling”: Fuming Folkestone residents claim children’s bike track has “ruined living here” and devalued houses – due to kids “peering” into their homes

Folkestone and Hythe District Council, which facilitated and coordinated the upgrades, describe the end result as a “significant improvement” due to the better signage and accessibility for pedestrians and cyclists. To be honest, we’re inclined to agree.

Radnor Park roundabout proposal, Folkestone
Radnor Park roundabout proposal, Folkestone (Image Credit: Folkestone and Hythe District Council)
Radnor Park roundabout proposal, Folkestone
Radnor Park roundabout proposal, Folkestone (Image Credit: Folkestone and Hythe District Council)

The new layout was, admittedly, rather steep, costing £3 million but funded through central government’s Levelling Up scheme rather than local council tax. And despite not yet being finished, residents are out with their proverbial pitchforks…

“100 feet of cycle lane that leads to no where [sic], how was that and a new flower bed 3 million quid” wrote Paul Stannage. The answer, we think, is that it leads safely to the other side of a busy roundabout but hey ho.

“It’s totally worked for me. This green initiative ensures that I now drive around in ever increasing circles to get from a to b by avoiding it!” Carolyn Uden added.

Fears seemed centred on the raised kerb that was installed to segregate the cycle lane from vehicle traffic, though Kent County Council, which actually installed the infrastructure, say they have yet to receive any complaints. Despite this, residents told Kent Online it was “downright dangerous” and an “accident waiting to happen”.

“It is dangerous, I’ve nearly gone into the raised cycle parts and not because im a crap driver lol. There was no need for them.” Paula Kinsley said.

And finally, Andy Mulls wrote that the infrastructure was a “poxy waste of money like all of the building works…those kerbs will cause major accidents in the dark especially”.

We’ll believe it when we see it…

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16 thoughts on ““This green initiative ensures that I now drive around to avoid it”: Revamped roundabout leaves residents baffled by a segregated bike lane; Movistar man plays the bicycle; Brennan signs Visma contract extension + more on the live blog”

  1. mitsky
    December 12, 2025 at 9:53 am
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    Public footage catches

    Public footage catches thousands of reckless drivers

    4 clips in this report.
    2 filmed by drivers, 1 by a horserider, 1 by a cyclist.

    Will be interesting to see the level of backlash against the drivers and horserider, compared with how cyclists are demonised for it…

    And my understanding is the majority of video evidenced reports of bad driving are submitted by other drivers.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/ceq10qr52lno

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    • TheColster
      December 12, 2025 at 10:00 am
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      It’s also noticeable that of

      It’s also noticeable that of the four clips, the one that was the closest to causing serious injury got the least punishment…

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      • Hirsute
        December 12, 2025 at 11:50 am
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        I think the one driving the

        I think the one driving the wrong way around a roundabout at speed had the greatest potential for a KSI. It’s not just about what happened but what could have realistically happened.

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    • mctrials23
      December 12, 2025 at 10:56 am
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      Yes….but I really hate

      Yes….but I really hate cyclists mate so please stop making sensible evidence based arguments. I much prefer talking to people like me who also hate cyclists and are happy to blame everything on fucking cyclists. This war on motorists has gone too far. Anyway, when are they going to be licensed and pay road tax?

      —–

      Oh and as to that link there should be no such thing as 5 points when it comes to driving. 5 points is simply giving people few enough points to keep driving. Its again suggesting that someones right to be a dangerous cunt takes priority over the other 99.999999% of peoples right not to have dangerous cunts flying about in a 2 tonne lump of metal. 

      —–

      And finally, the reason the horse rider and cyclist will be demonised is because of peoples inherent dislike of these groups, especially cyclists and because people are idiots and will rationalise it as the horse rider and cyclist “forcing” the drivers to pass them therefore if we removed the rider and cyclist there wouldn’t be an issue. 

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      • mdavidford
        December 12, 2025 at 11:10 am
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        mctrials23 wrote:

        someones right to be a dangerous cunt takes priority over the other 99.999999% of peoples right

        — mctrials23

        Sadly, I’m fairly sure that the proportion of dangerous bad words is considerably higher than 1 in 100,000,000.

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      • bensynnock
        December 12, 2025 at 3:25 pm
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        They get to keep their
        They get to keep their licenses anyway, as long as they can claim they’ll lose their job without it.

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        • chrisonabike
          December 12, 2025 at 6:09 pm
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          bensynnock wrote:

          They get to keep their licenses anyway, as long as they can claim they’ll lose their job without it.

          — bensynnock

          I am a director of a company – can’t lose my licence because what about my poor employees? I am an employee, can’t lose my licence because my dependents / my livelihood. I am unemployed, can’t lose my licence because health appointments / caring responsibilities / ferrets…

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  2. bensynnock
    December 12, 2025 at 10:28 am
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    “It is dangerous, I’ve nearly
    “It is dangerous, I’ve nearly gone into the raised cycle parts and not because im a crap driver lol. There was no need for them.” Paula Kinsley said.

    No Paula. Obviously that could never be the reason that you can’t keep your wheels on the road.

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    • mitsky
      December 12, 2025 at 11:38 am
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      If she’d done that on a

      If she’d done that on a driving test, she would have failed…
      Hence: Yes Paula You would be/are a crap driver.

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      • Surreyrider
        December 12, 2025 at 2:29 pm
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        I think Paula was trying to

        I think Paula was trying to admit that actually she is a bad driver and knows it. Now, so do we.

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  3. mdavidford
    December 12, 2025 at 11:16 am
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    nota que se ha reparado una

    nota que se ha reparado una pena
     

    You’re welcome. 

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  4. quiff
    December 12, 2025 at 12:36 pm
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    “those kerbs will cause major

    “those kerbs will cause major accidents in the dark especially”.

    We’ll believe it when we see it…

    — road.cc

    While I’m not defending the complainers / drivers, there’s no reason to doubt people will hit the kerbs – there have been plenty of examples on this site, e.g: 

    https://road.cc/content/news/267245-resident-claims-least-100-cars-have-blown-their-tyres-kerb-separating-cycle-lane ; 

    https://road.cc/content/news/council-paints-over-cycle-lane-after-drivers-hit-kerb-295729 ; 

    https://road.cc/content/news/267680-cycle-lane-kerb-intended-stop-southend-drivers-cutting-corner-removed-safety  

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    • Hirsute
      December 12, 2025 at 2:13 pm
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      All the more reason for a

      All the more reason for a kerb and not a bit of paint !

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  5. Secret_squirrel
    December 12, 2025 at 2:20 pm
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    NSN’s kit looks terrible. 

    NSN’s kit looks terrible.  All thats missing is a Clown and a game of Noughts and Crosses*

    *Old fart detector.

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  6. HarrogateSpa
    December 12, 2025 at 4:13 pm
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    I will be interested to see

    I will be interested to see how Juan MyWayuso or the HighWayuso gets on at Lidl-Trek.

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  7. mdavidford
    December 12, 2025 at 5:01 pm
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    ServiceNow isn’t really ‘an

    ServiceNow isn’t really ‘an AI company’, even if they’re pretending they are. It’s a software company that happens to be making a lot of noise about the AI components in it’s offering. Like every other software company right now.

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Surreyrider 1 minute ago

I think I read on Weight Weenies once that Zipps are for the go with the flow crowd who vaguely recall that they may have been mentioned as good once and can't be bothered to do any actual research themselves. They're welcome to them - hookless and with junk hubs.

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mdavidford 4 minutes ago

There was me thinking you could do that any time you liked...

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Surreyrider 5 minutes ago

Wait til he finds out about vehicles...

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mitsky 45 minutes ago

But it was mentioned here: "Hammersmith Bridge car plans axed over £300m cost" https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c5yzqv29d1eo

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Smoggysteve 1 hour ago

@quiff The point im raising is, much of this is symptomatic of a transport infrastructure thats overwhelmed with the weight of traffic using it. Maybe people would feel safer if the vehicles were fewer and not as oversized as modern cars have become. 30 years ago this wasn't so much of an issue. But there are more cars than ever, driving standards have eroded and the roads are crumbling through underinvestment. all while these poorly planned and built without cycling groups input. I will use Harrogate town centre as a great example. The council never once spoke to any of the many cycling groups in the area, the plan was a total shambles and inconvenience to all. You have some great cycle routes in the area. the Beryl Burton route being a top example but the town centre is an SUV heavy clusterf***. I never cycled anywhere near the town centre due to this. Everywhere else around the town - brilliant roads in nearly all directions. There are so many examples of utterly bonkers cycling infrastructure. Some so poorly designed it actively dissuades cyclists from using it which then draws the wrath of drivers who then complain its not being used. All the while the majority of cyclist will say, treat me with respect and dont endager me and we can all use the roads. But its getting harder and harder to do that with the current trends in car design and ailing stadards

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the infamous grouse 1 hour ago

cyclists tend to be slimmer than people who are waddl.. walking.

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mitsky 1 hour ago

Saw a bit on BBC News this morning about the weight limit on Vauxhall Bridge starting today. Nothing on the BBC website as of today, just the previous article: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4p10l3833o

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quiff 2 hours ago

@Smoggysteve That may well apply to a lot of cyclists. But what about people who don't already cycle? They frequently report feeling unsafe - the infrastructure is intended for them (though admittedly it doesn't always pass muster).

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open_roads 2 hours ago

@imajez the data on Working Family Tax Credit shows that the recipients are much more likely to be working 16 hours than 40. The reason for that is the 16 hour threshold meets the threshold for eligibility to a wider range of benefits including housing support. So the recipients work less and then avoid the significant costs that everyone else has to pay themselves.

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Smoggysteve 2 hours ago

In reality, I dont think many cyclists actually cry out for all this cycling focussed infrastructure. Local governments may install it and cyclists will mostly use it but I see very few actual cyclists demanding it. Most would happily ride on the roads and be treated with respect by drivers. Most cycle paths are built to fulfil a quota of active travel budget. Cyclists and cycling groups are often ignored in the decision making process, so its not us its you pal that are the problem designing crappy infrastructure very few cyclists actually wanted to begin with.

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