New documentary series follows Sky and British Cycling as they target Tour and Olympic success (+ video trailer)

I think you'll need to take that up with the media and society more widely. These things only tend to get attention / become 'news' when people make a fuss about them, and people are much more likely to make a fuss about things they're against than they are things they're in favour of. If road.cc were only to pick up stories where people were being universally positive about them, there basically wouldn't be any.

The irony of people complaining about cycle lanes making it harder to drive to a fun run.

(Some) people are always "not against change" as long as it's the kind of change that doesn't... change things. Or at least not anything that changes their current convenience. OTOH it's hard to get beyond "me, my kids, my elderly parents and my sick ferrets *need to* (something involving driving or cars) - now you're saying I just can't do that?"

As we spend some time on formal campsites we often see these, and are genuinely mystified. Compared to a high quality lightweight tent that boringly goes on the ground they cost far more, seem to take at least as long to set up, have less space inside, don't let you so easily cook in bed or easily get to all your stuff, and require you to get in and out via a ladder, as well as taking up all your roofbar space and making your fuel ecomomy worse. Our bikepacking tent cost a fraction of that, is easier to get in and out of, judging from setup times I see at campsites isn't really more of a problem to put up, leaves all our kit immediately to hand and being 48 Kg lighter and packing much, much, much smaller means we can take it by bike if we want. 🤷‍♂️

It's a bit tiring that any good news about new, decent cycle infra is always written through the lens of angry locals' "concerns" on road.cc. We all know that there will always be some whiny antis people when it comes building anything for cycling, and it's about time these moaners were given far less column inches – especially on a cycling website! 21 local residents is fewer than the number of people in my local pub on a Thursday night, yet almost the whole article is dedicated to platforming their NIMBY views. It would be much better to read about how this scheme fits into the wider context of new routes and plans in Belfast, as well as some specific details about where the route will be, if its fully segregated, etc.

Yesterday, police in New Hampshire closed an investigation into the death of a cyclist following a collision after the only witness, the driver of the car which fatally struck 72-year-old Joseph Miller, said the cyclist veered into the car’s path Yes, that's the way it's going to be if any of us are terminated by a driver: we're not there to say what happened, and the police are only too willing to accept the driver's claim that the cyclist came out of nowhere and suddenly swerved into his path, other drivers 'don't want to get involved, and cyclists deserve all they get anyway', I didn't stand a chance, I didn't see him, I didn't mean to do it. It doesn't take much to convert this bus attack to the outcome above, yet the b*****d police and Stagecoach do nothing. The best you'll get, if the worst happens, is the police pressing the button to issue the insincere 'thoughts and prayers' and then getting back to the button which bins close-passing videos from cyclists ttps://upride.cc/incident/px12dnd_stagecoach41_closepass/

1 year funding has been in place since Transport Scotland took over active travel funding from Sustrans in 2023/24. It is a PIA for multi year network schemes, but you just have to get smart with your programming. Certainly no excuse to reduce or cancel a scheme so this is just GCC politicking ahead of next years council elections.

Ah, I thought when calling someone else's figure misleading and then having yours be found to be accidentally almost as bad, it might want to be corrected.

@Rendel Harris the uncomfortable truth about the tax gap is that it's not big business and billionaires that are the most at fault - it's small businesses who are either too disorganised to get things right, or see "tax dodging" as fair game so long as they're the ones who are doing it. And governments want their votes.

@BBB explain?