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@Rendel Harris yep - while "obstructing the highway" is a crime (now a more serious one thanks to protest, and somehow is very rarely applied to motor vehicles on the cycle path / footway...) pedestrians are allowed to "share the road" most places. But just try exercising your right! We don't suggest that cars and trains share space obviously. (Don't start with "bus lanes"...) Neither motorists nor pedestrians want cyclists "in their space" and point at the other space. Or maybe "cycle lanes", which aren't liked by most current cyclists and won't be used by "might be" cyclists, aside from being ignored by drivers. So then it becomes "fighting over scraps" - as usually it's pedestrians who have to compromise. "Streets too narrow" to take from motoring - although very often there are at least 3 lanes-worth of space, once you notice the parking.

@georgeupstairs@yahoo.co.uk Goodness knows I like a bit of pedantry but describing it as a 4% difference is quite correct, as is (almost) describing it as a 25% difference, one is an absolute difference and one is a relative difference. No error. Your sums actually aren't quite right because 24% is 20% higher than 20%, not 25%.

@Steelisreel that’s a bit harsh. Plenty of UK companies get frames made in Asia to their spec, that’s about the only way that is economical, and they are pretty up front about it. But the company is UK based, has a small workshop in the South East (attached to a very good cafe), and employs actual people.

@Mmitb Pedestrians already have their own segregated infrastructure to use, they're called pavements. And if you try and take even a couple of feet away from them to put in a cycle lane, listen for the complaints.

@stulemanski Or to put it in less pejorative terms rather than trying to make active travel activists sound like spoiled children, they are upset about the fact that a golden opportunity to introduce more than a kilometre of completely off-road cycle track through the heart of London has been missed, an opportunity that could easily have been taken up on a 25 m wide highway. It may be "really easy to avoid with minimal inconvenience" for you, and it is for me to be fair, but cycle infrastructure isn't primarily designed for fast, experienced and confident cyclists but to encourage those with less confidence and experience to take up cycling; a cycle lane down Oxford Street would have served this cohort very well. So the objections, whether you agree with them or not, are well-founded, not mere petulance because "pedestrians have been given something and they've not".

All the side streets where I live are blocked by cars parked on either side of the road so that they are too narrow to cycle in if there is a car or van coming the other way. It makes it really difficult and dangerous to cycle on my local roads. I used to cycle to the shops but now I walk because I could no longer face the regular unyielding motorists when I was already in sections too narrow for them to enter. How is this any different to Lime bikes blocking street corners?

@Sniffer well apparently he's a keen motorcyclist, so perhaps he's projecting...

Surprised this review didn't mention the Magicshine EVO 1300. It was reviewed very favourably on this site a while back and is much the same concept. I have been using it on my commuter for the last year or so.

@chrisonabike I heard this too. Very disappointed in Evan Davis ill informed comments, but I thought Alexander responded appropriately, explaining the law. Considering how many politicians spout falsehoods in this area, at least she clearly understood the rules.

Yes, @jonhall it's really easy to avoid Ox St and use the roads running either side. In fact, as a cyclist myself, pre and post pedestrianisation, it's more pleasant to use the roads running either side - who wants to try and meander through thousands of pedestrians? So, I can't help feeling this is a bit of a fuss over nothing.