Five cool things coming soon from Fulcrum, Met, Apidura, Ergon and Quoc

It's a bit tiring that any good news about new, decent cycle infra is always written through the lens of angry locals' "concerns" on road.cc. We all know that there will always be some whiny antis people when it comes building anything for cycling, and it's about time these moaners were given far less column inches – especially on a cycling website! 21 local residents is fewer than the number of people in my local pub on a Thursday night, yet almost the whole article is dedicated to platforming their NIMBY views. It would be much better to read about how this scheme fits into the wider context of new routes and plans in Belfast, as well as some specific details about where the route will be, if its fully segregated, etc.

Yesterday, police in New Hampshire closed an investigation into the death of a cyclist following a collision after the only witness, the driver of the car which fatally struck 72-year-old Joseph Miller, said the cyclist veered into the car’s path Yes, that's the way it's going to be if any of us are terminated by a driver: we're not there to say what happened, and the police are only too willing to accept the driver's claim that the cyclist came out of nowhere and suddenly swerved into his path, other drivers 'don't want to get involved, and cyclists deserve all they get anyway', I didn't stand a chance, I didn't see him, I didn't mean to do it. It doesn't take much to convert this bus attack to the outcome above, yet the b*****d police and Stagecoach do nothing. The best you'll get, if the worst happens, is the police pressing the button to issue the insincere 'thoughts and prayers' and then getting back to the button which bins close-passing videos from cyclists ttps://upride.cc/incident/px12dnd_stagecoach41_closepass/

1 year funding has been in place since Transport Scotland took over active travel funding from Sustrans in 2023/24. It is a PIA for multi year network schemes, but you just have to get smart with your programming. Certainly no excuse to reduce or cancel a scheme so this is just GCC politicking ahead of next years council elections.

Ah, I thought when calling someone else's figure misleading and then having yours be found to be accidentally almost as bad, it might want to be corrected.

@Rendel Harris the uncomfortable truth about the tax gap is that it's not big business and billionaires that are the most at fault - it's small businesses who are either too disorganised to get things right, or see "tax dodging" as fair game so long as they're the ones who are doing it. And governments want their votes.

@BBB explain?

Thinking about it - could we sell this as a new self-defence strategy? "Remember WW2? We removed the signposts and turned off the streetlights *? If we install cycle paths and LTNs the invaders will never be able to get anywhere! Also a coastal cycle path will completely foil those attempting to enter this country on small boats. " * may not be a good idea through leading to more deaths on the roads / accidents at night than it saved by making it harder to bomb?

I don't buy Hansen's arguments. Presumably one of the things the analysts will do is estimate VO2 max for each rider using HR-, HRV-, power data and rider weight; and then monitor this over time both during each ride and across all rides. A sudden change in VO2 max would indicate something is amiss. In which case questions like “How do you know when he’s training at 80 per cent and not 100 per cent?" is irrelevant as long as the VO2 estimate is robust to different training intensities. However, if the analysts suspect there is an issue it will be up to them to prove it using the data and be able defend their methodology.

Or anyone arguing for more funding for the MoD, without someone else being in charge of the delivery.

That's not how this works. If Live Bloggers had to go around correcting all the errors in their posts, they'd never have time to post any new ones.