Bus driver charged following Oxford Street cyclist’s death

The ones that any terrorist could just drive round on the road and then bump over a four inch kerb to get onto the pavement anyway? I assume, given the talk of allowing traffic in overnight for deliveries, the barriers will be more along the lines of a swinging gate or those retractable bollards that sink into the ground.

That would be quite some chutzpah given the mess the updates have caused (anybody else getting transparent ads covering half of the text of articles, that's what I'm getting on my Mac?), following the Discovery cycling coverage model, we've made everything a lot worse, now pay more for it.

This would be anti-terrorism barriers like the ones used on various london bridge cycle lanes? The ones designed to stop terrorists in cars or trucks ramming through pedestrians? The ones that cost a small fortune because they need to be big and heavy to stop something with the mass of a car? The ones we can install on cycle lanes without stopping cyclists? Sure, sure; they are spending 5-6 figures on anti-terrorism barriers to stop cyclists rather than (overpriced) £200 crowd control fences...

It's good to see that the police are actually being more aware of the distinction, at least, but do they really need training to identify illegal electric motorcycles? If the hub motor is bigger than a brake disc, if the rider is going more than 15 mph on the flat or uphill whilst only gently turning the pedals, or they are not turning the pedals at all, then it's illegal. That covers 99% of illegal electric motorcycles (yes it's possible to hack a legal 250W bike by overriding the restrictor but virtually nobody bothers). It's not identification that's the problem but the willingness to act. I've mentioned on here before that the Pret A Manger at the bottom of my road always has a crowd of delivery riders waiting outside for orders, without exception using illegal bikes, and the police regularly drive up (parking illegally, but that's another issue), go into the establishment for coffee and snacks and come out and consume them in their cars, all the while gazing on what could be an easy pinch of half a dozen illegal riders, and then drive off.

We take our lives in our hands every time we take to the streets. I know this is true, because Nigel Farage said so. I believe he last stated this to a Daily Express journalist, just after cancelling all of his post Gorton and Denton by-election press conferences. He gave an example of feeling threated by foreign-looking people when walking from the carpark to his monthly orthodontist appointment to have his teeth tea-stained.

Progress. Keep up the good work. However, I suspect that the gutter press and its readers don't want to understand the difference between electric motorbikes, illegally modified e-bikes, e-bikes or bicycles. It simplifies and strengthens their pro-motorist arguments.

Hmm - I just got a '9 free articles remaining' banner at the top of the page - is a paywall incoming?

I dunno - there's an awful lot of that on social media.

Regardless of whether or not what he did in this case was OK, we rightly wouldn't accept this as an argument from motorists, and shouldn't from cyclists either.

Eek - the squirrels are even loose in the comments carousel. 😬