Video: Pinch Point – excellent short documentary explores attitudes towards cycling in Cambridge

My one problem with this is IMHO, the mass protest needs to block up all the parallel routes for cars. As a mass protest dismount and walk along the road, making it impossible for cars to move for hours. (I don't feel safe driving, so I have dismounted to walk). Effectively Block every parallel route to all motor traffic for hours several days a week.... Though of course some twat will then ram cyclists rather than accepting the delay...

RE former transport minister George Freeman: Did he refer to them as eg Malacca, Sabah, Sarawak Magindanaw, Barunai etc? Or was he trying to trade opium for spices?

I'm not sure if I agree with this article or not. Good news if there bad been in absence of anti cyclist reader comments. However, todays Times reported the case with sentencing on page 13. It was not mentioned on yesterday's BBC 6.00 pm News or this morning's BBC breakfast news, joint hosted by John ("And what do you say to motorists who think there are too many cyclists on the road?") Kay.

If the human life lost had been a black teenager nipping around on a bike or scooter, rather than a middle aged male school teacher cycling home, I do think the comments on the Telegraph, Mail etc websites would have been different.

@smallbeer yeah, the pics do rather suggest that! When lit, and especially in lower lighting conditions, the light emitted is definitely red, not orange

Good article. I won't hold my breath. I wonder how many of us have to be murdered like this for the empathy to become permanent?

Please amend this bit: "Christie continued to follow the victim, and the van hit the back wheel of the bike..." to something like "Christie continued to follow the victim, and hit the back wheel of the bike with the front of the van..."

What a sad last sentence, that unfortunately, most of us on here agree with.

Bunchery noted! 😄 To be honest I know nothing about the park in question. I only have experience of C lanes, or lack of, in Yorkshire & I dont often cycle much more than a few miles - town centre & back, which are part cycle laned. On other routes I rarely see cyclists although one longer route than mine has a good number of users. I recently cycled a dozen miles from another city & there were no cycle lanes (on the most direct A road route) until I got within about a 1/4 mile of the centre & they stop about a mile plus from home, so only of limited use on that ride. I doubt any type of lane will be used by the I'm all right Jacks, who suit themselves no matter what, I might at times even be one... I think there are no cars allowed in the park (?) so I'd hope any lane paint would last a few years of only bikes & shoe wear. But its not a panacea, we still have human foibles to deal with. I dont know what "rep" the park has, is it dodgy at night? Will any of the proposals solve that if users feel unsafe there? It takes time for changes / "improvements" to take effect.

I have just seen Vitality's new ad called 'your health best friend' and disappointed to see it play on the old 'rude, shouting MAMIL' trope, and ends with them getting their 'comeuppance' and crashing over a wall. Odd choice to villainise part of your target audience, even if someone in marketing thinks it's funny?