Victoria Pendleton confirmed for Cheltenham Festival ride

... if your taste in comedy is tired, lazy, and unoriginal.

I do not think that word means what you think that it means.

That *Newsthump* thing is actually quite funny

Oh good grief, I'd blissfully forgotten about Kate Hoey AKA Zelda until now

Whataboutery, much? RLJ is illegal. It infuriates me. All this argument about "it doesn't hurt anyone", "it makes us safer". ILLEGAL.

Why would you want to ride a bike down there? It was a zoo before it was pedestrianised, no doubt it's still a zoo. Riding down there would simply draw hatred. Just walk.

I agree that cycling should not be permitted along a pedestrianised Oxford Street. Leave if for the shoppers and the tourists. At the movement it’s not great as a cycle route anyway, because of the taxis, pedestrians and dozens of traffic light junctions, so I’m not convinced it’s a great loss when it becomes peds only. Access between midnight and 7 would be great as would better alternatives. Currently it takes a lot of ‘ducking and diving’ to get from TCR to Marble Arch. But admit it, it’s an exciting urban cycling challenge

I ride through the West End regularly and haven't got a problem with this at all. It would be horrible for pedestrians to have bikes - especially delivery drivers with ebikes - whizzing around there. And there are much nicer quieter streets a block or two away to cycle around it you want to travel through the West End. A pedestrianised Oxford Street will be great. Needed for years.

Seriously.... Yes of course my data is robust. That's what science is all about. If you don't want to believe the data, then I don't know what to say.

Local governments excel at making really annoying a preferable option.