Infrastructure

Video: Shared use shenanigans – rider races himself on road vs new infrastructure

There's only ever going to be one winner here - but some of it looks like a decent route for slower riders

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Oxfordshire County Council set to green light plan to get more people cycling

Cabinet meets on Tuesday to examine Oxford Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plan

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Cumbria councillors ignore officials’ advice and ban cycling across footbridge

Riders will have to walk their bikes across bridge on National Cycle Network by Derwent Water

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New cycleway opens by-passing one of London’s most dangerous roundabouts (+ video)

Two-way cycle track at Rotherhithe Roundabout will form part of Cycleway 4 from Tower Bridge to Greenwich

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Transport for London unveils plans for Rotherhithe to Canary Wharf ferry

Also, more details emerge of temporary Hammersmith cycling and walking bridge

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Transport for London seeks feedback on temporary Hammersmith cycling and walking bridge

Existing bridge, currently open only to cyclists and pedestrians, may need to be fully closed for repairs

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Camden and Tottenham Hale Cycleway a year behind schedule

TfL says ‘ambitious’ route has ‘presented challenges’

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Highways England accused of wasting tens of thousands of public money on CCTV in Queensbury Tunnel

West Yorkshire Combined Authority has requested £23m to save the tunnel and build a cycle route, but Highways England wants to fill it in

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Khan triples cycle tracks, calls cycling a social justice issue

London mayor tells road.cc cycling is a social justice issue, criticises 'bad councils' and calls on Londoners to lobby politicians

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London Bridge to be closed to all traffic but bikes, buses and cabs for essential waterproofing works

Essential seven-month works to preserve reinforced concrete structure are eight years overdue

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Parisians keep cycling following transport strikes as mayor pledges 100 per cent bike friendly city

Anne Hidalgo has promised a bike lane on every street in French capital if re-elected

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Met police officer tells London cyclist to get off bike to ride on shared use path

Police operation in Morden this morning follows Friday's distribution of free hi-viz to cyclists in nearby Colliers Wood

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Lancaster named UK’s most bike-friendly city; local cycling campaigners disagree

City was ranked top in recent survey from personal injury law firm –

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Key Oxford junction to be made safer for cyclists and pedestrians

Campaigners welcome restoration of layout to how it was before 2014 remodelling

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Greater Manchester ‘can be national blueprint’ for cycling and walking, Boris Johnson told

Chris Boardman tells Prime Minister 'the timing is perfect to wean a nation off its automobile addiction'

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Yet more research shows benefits bike lanes bring local businesses with more footfall and higher spending

Study on economic impact of Toronto's Bloor Street Bikeways mirrors experience of cities elsewhere around the world

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National Pothole Day: An interview with Mr Pothole (otherwise known as Mark Morrell)

To mark the day we'd all rather wish didn't exist, we've spoke to Britain's foremost anti-pothole activist about the state of our roads...

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Cycling campaigners urge rethink of Cambridge anti-terrorism barriers

Barriers on King’s Parade – one of UK’s busiest streets for cyclists – become operational tomorrow

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Over 10,000 cyclists used Tyne Tunnels in first two months after they reopened

Tunnels were used by 20,000 people a day in their heyday

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Transport for London consults on Cycleway on Greenwich to Woolwich route where three cyclists have been killed in recent years

Views also sought on notorious Woolwich Road roundabout

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Councils need to take ‘unpopular’ decisions to convert drivers into cyclists says councillor in Cumbria

‘I am glad to see us doing things that maybe aren't that popular with car-driving, middle-aged people’

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“Inexplicable” why Highways England is refusing to pause abandonment of tunnel earmarked for cycle route

Campaigners say recent infilling of a ventilation shaft was “entirely unwarranted”

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Convenience not weather keeping Scots in their cars says cycling commissioner

‘It's the people from more affluent areas that are more dependent on the car’

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Final section of Dartmoor’s Wray Valley Trail completed after 20 years

11-kilometre off-road route follows route of disused railway line and will benefit locals and tourists alike

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See.Sense partners with Oxfordshire County Council to find out where cycling infrastructure needed

300 smart lights being provided to local cyclists at big discount ahead of year-long trial

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Cycleways are getting more Londoners in the saddle, says new TfL report

Latest Travel in London report finds big increases in cycling where safe infrastructure has been built

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Canadian study finds segregated cycle lanes also reduce collisions on adjacent streets

Drop in collision rate may be due to rise in number of cyclists

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Cambridge cyclist broke hip after crash he says was caused by protected cycle lane kerb

John Whittaker also spent three and a half hours lying in the rain waiting for an ambulance to arrive

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Sustrans announce funding injection to improve and “reduce conflict” on most heavily-used section of the Bristol and Path Railway path

The charity who maintain the National Cycle Network are deciding how to utilise new DfT funding to improve the busiest section of the path, and have hinted at the possibility of widening it at pinch points

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Hammersmith & Fulham greenlights two major West London cycle routes

News comes as TfL confirms work will start on Kew Bridge junction with Cycleway 9 next week

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