Infrastructure

Driverless vehicle trial gets underway in London – but could it affect space for cycling? (+ video)

Greenwich joins Bristol and Coventry/Milton Keynes in trialling new technology

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Hammersmith Flyunder? Boris Johnson wants to send London’s traffic underground

Mayor visits Boston to see what US city did - but would cost of projects here be prohibitive?

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Liverpool’s CityBike scheme and Brighton’s Lewes Road project scoop Smarter Travel Awards

Other shortlisted entries at inaugural event included Bath's SmartBike cycle hire scheme

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Plan to put turn disused Tube lines into cycle paths under London – but could it work? (+ video)

Award winning London Underline concept could ease city's overcrowding, say designers - we dig in to the details

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Norwich plans further £15.4m cycling investment – subject to DfT approval

East Anglian city bids for £8.4m of Cycle City Ambition funding to boost its Push the Pedalways project

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Historic day for London cyclists as TfL board approves Cycle Superhighways (+ flythrough video)

Campaigners in capital and beyond hail decision to approve plans for segregated routes

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£1m segregated cycle path proposed for John Dobson Street in Newcastle

‘Boulevard style environment’ will be closed to cars

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After 3-month experiment, will Leicester mayor make bike lane permanent?

Dispute over effect on congestion of city centre road changes

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Replace railway lines with bus routes, says think tank – but no mention of cycling

Insititute of Economic Affairs urges overhaul of London's transport system - but ignores city's cycling boom

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More door-zone cycle lanes for Reading despite backlash

Reading Cycle Campaign protests fall on deaf ears as council roll out another controversial bike lane

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Carlton Reid’s book hits Number 1 spot on Kindle Store – in Automotive category

Roads Were Not Built For Cars takes top spot ahead of Clarkson and May

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Driver charged over April 2014 death of cyclist at Ludgate Circus

Killer junction scheduled for rebuild as part of north-south cycle superhighway

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Croydon Council reviews tram/cyclist safety after 2013 death

TfL experts called in to try and fix "significant danger" to riders

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Work starts on Leeds-Bradford cycle superhighway

14-mile route forms part of £29.2 million City Connect scheme

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Research finds measures aimed at making drivers slow down increase danger to cyclists

First findings from Near Miss Project launched last year look at carriageway narrowing

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“Suicide” for parties not to commit to cycling funding, says Boris Johnson

"I’m sure it will be in the Conservative manifesto"

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Cycling investment formally included in Infrastructure Bill

"Turning point" in cycling says CTC, but "no time for resting on our laurels"

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Boris Johnson gives go-ahead to London’s ‘Crossrail’ segregated cycle routes

Work to start in next three months on both Cycle Superhighways running through centre of capital

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Landowner defends right to close Hampshire cycle route

Scrap metal dealer who is in dispute with local council put fence up last July

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£1.3m Defra funding for cycle link from Dawlish to Exe Estuary Trail

Coastal Community Fund-financed route will pass railway station and encourage more visitors to Devon town

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Council to conduct tests on “death trap” Brighton cycle lane

Official says council looking at ways to make infrastructure safer for riders

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“How can riding a bike be made safer?” local paper asks… “By banning cycling,” drivers respond

One recent post by a local paper, where cyclists have long complained about fatally dangerous junctions, the lack of protected infrastructure, police apathy, and horrible road surfaces, caught our eye...

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From Scotland to Southwest England, calls for councils to grit cycle paths (+ videos)

Campaigners north of border call for action, videos show danger on Bristol & Bath Railway Path

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Cycling and walking added to Infrastructure Bill

"A massive step in the right direction" says Chris Boardman

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Majority thinks Government should invest more in cycling, survey finds

Sustrans calls for cycling to be added to Infrastructure Bill

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8-week part-closure of Bristol & Bath Railway Path turns into 6 months

Council says overrun down to safety grounds, but Sustrans calls delay "disappointing"

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Work starts on phase 2 of 16km greenway project in Belfast (+ video)

Lottery funded scheme is creating a linear park in Northern Ireland's capital

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City Deal may result in £12m of bike paths south of Cambridge

Long-awaited Arbury Road plans also approved in the north of the city

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Preston cyclists to get shared used path alongside A6

Lancashire County Council approves £90,000 scheme funded by Local Sustainable Transport Fund

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Seaford says ‘yes’ to seafront cycling

Not one incident recorded during entire nine-month trial

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