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Cambridge to improve links to southern business parks with £1.7m new segregated cycle paths

Wide new lanes will safely take city residents to work south of the city

Minister for cycling Robert Goodwill to tour London blackspots on his Brompton

Meanwhile, Chris Boardman welcomes Labour's HGV safety plan as cycling comes under political spotlight

Scotland to get its first cycle counters at nine locations

Sustrans teams up with Danish specialists Falco to provide counters - government hopes they will show cycling is on the rise

Cyclists are “longing” to be run down, says peer

Down with this sort of thing

Greater Anglia wins at 2013 Cycle-Rail Awards despite planning bike ban extension

More Britons combining cycle and rail journeys than ever before

TfL said to have approached researchers over headphones and cyclist safety

Dutch study has found that listening to music "reduced visual and auditory perception"

Video: London Assembly members criticise Boris Johnson on bike safety

"Cycling is not getting safer," says Baroness Jones

Commons committee to consider cycling safety next month

Views invited via Twitter and online ahead of oral evidence session next month

Labour to prioritise safe cycling infrastructure in 2015 manifesto

Amid calls for safer roads, Labour have reiterated their desire to prioritise cycling while criticising the coalition government’s priorities

Boris Johnson says he’d back ban on cyclists wearing earphones

Mayor of London also suggests HGV rush hour ban urged by Chris Boardman wouldn't work

US judge says he’s unlikely to dismiss Lance Armstrong fraud case

Meanwhile, Floyd Landis's lawyers invoke wartime legislation on limitations

Police to crack down on mobile-using drivers this week

Brake anti-distraction campaign calls for hand-free ban too

Manchester Council employees failing to hit targets for cycle to work scheme uptake

Council workers eight times less likely to take part in scheme than other Manchester employees

Die-in planned at Transport for London headquarters as ‘save our cyclists’ petition hits over 18,000 names

Anger grows over deaths of five London cyclists this month

Scottish cycling provision “decades behind” despite handful of good local authorities

Study commends five outstanding authorities but transport minister says focus should be on commuters

Boris Johnson accused of victim-blaming over London cyclist deaths

Round-up of reaction to news of fifth cyclist fatality in London this month

Kate Hoey calls for bikes to be registered and cyclists to pay “road tax”

Labour politician says she'd like to see more people cycling... but she has a funny way of encouraging them

‘Give workers time off to watch Tour de France in Cambridge,’ says councillor

Cambridge councillor calls for flexible working for council staff and local workers so they can make the most of the day

Japan considers Cabinet level Bicycle Promotion Ministry ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Bicycle Ministry would standardise road rules for cyclists, improve infrastructure and promote two-wheeled transport

Row brews in Cambridge as Police and Crime Commissioner and MP go head to head over cycle helmet laws

PCC Sir Graham Bright says doctor son has made him aware of head injuries, but MP Julian Huppert says risks of people not riding at all are too high

Campaigners criticise “self-fulfilling prophecy” as Department for Transport predicts decline in cycling

Should DfT try to predict the future, or prevent it?

Overall cyclist casualties up 12 percent in latest DfT figures

Rise in cycling casualties for 2013 second quarter goes against downward trend for other road users

John Lamont MSP calls for Borders disused rail lines to be made into bike paths

Dangerous roads putting people off riding, says Scottish politician

London cyclist deaths and injuries up as TfL commissioner Peter Hendy suggests flashing lights for all cyclists

"Worrying gap between Mayoral rhetoric and reality" says London Assembly member

Cycling minister Robert Goodwill wants to give motorists “greater say in how their roads are run”

Whose roads? Consultation gives chance to tell DfT that cyclists use A roads too

MP who called cyclists “law-breaking Lycra Louts” fined for driving through red light

Former Sports Minister Kate Hoey cops £240 fine for ignoring traffic signal

All Party Commission to address UK kids’ “physical inactivity epidemic”

Launch coincides with survey results revealing that 7 in 10 UK children don’t get enough exercise

Cyclist casualties up in Scotland as MSPs debate safety

Presumed liability subject of Holyrood debate, but minister says no "robust evidence" it improves road safety

DfT urged to change road design rules now or risk strangling David Cameron’s ‘Cycling Revolution’

Cycle City Ambition cash could be wasted if planned road design rule changes not brought in now, say CTC and British Cycling

Edinburgh Council responds to tramline cycle safety fears

Signage installed, taxi lanes enforced, with further measures to follow