Infrastructure

Nike gets back into cycling

Sportswear brand invests $10 million into Portland bike share program Biketown with 1,000 bikes

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Plymouth cyclists needed to trial pothole app

Software employs user votes as a means of identifying priority issues

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Cobble rumble strips for popular Royal Parks cycle route

Mount Walk, with 900 cyclists per hour at peak times, will become part of the Central London Grid, linking to the new East-West Cycle Superhighway

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How Britain missed chance to ‘Go Dutch’ in the 1970s

UK government's dismissal of cycling four decades ago contrasts with Dutch decisions of same era

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London Assembly urges next mayor to support cycling

Assembly Members voted to support cycling infrastructure, while a Conservative amendment seeking "geniune local support" for cycling infrastructure was voted down

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Work begins to create cycle paths on deadly Aberdeen road

£900,000 will be spend to creat 3m wide paths on road that claimed life of young father in 2014

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Sustrans announces Xavier Brice as new Chief Executive

Transport for London man steps up to new role as head of sustainable transport charity

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Radical new plans for dangerous Kings Cross gyratory

Junction has claimed lives of cyclists - now TfL want your views on new design

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Injured BBC journalist warns cyclists not to ride over temporary bridges following fall in Cumbria

Cumbria has suffered a number of bridge closures as a result of flood damage

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Video: Collision on Wilmslow Road Cycleway – was it down to poor junction design?

Manchester campaigners say design results in confusion about who has right of way

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“Failure of ambition” on London Quietways

London's Quietways routes include busy roads shared with HGVs and narrow one-way streets made two-way for cyclists, with no protection for those on bikes, setting a "dangerous precedent", say campaigners

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World’s first public Park & Cycle facility proposed for Cambridge

Greater Cambridge City Deal consults on facility at Junction 12 of M11

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Traffic free cycle track planned for Hereford Racecourse

Velodrome idea abandoned in favour of closed road circuit

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Cab drivers lose cycle superhighway High Court challenge

Judge concludes that planning permission was not required for phase one of the scheme

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Work begins to improve Manchester’s Oxford Road for buses and cyclists

Council leader expresses reservations about related scheme which will extend cycle facilities through to Didsbury

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Bat survey edges Rhondda Tunnel closer to realisation

One estimate suggests the project to re-open Wales' longest tunnel for walking and cycling could yield £14.3m economic benefits over 30 years

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Hammersmith gyratory transformation is on the cards

One of London's most notoriously hostile junctions for cyclists will see a protected cycle lane under plans released for consultation

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More cyclists than cars will enter central London in rush hour in the next few years

TfL hails ‘a feat unprecedented in any major city’ as bike share grows in London

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George Osborne “isn’t listening to evidence” on cycling investment

CTC calls roads investment rationale "questionable" and urges people to ask MPs to attend debate to try to reallocate existing roads fund to cycling

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Glasgow bidding for £12 million to convert the city into a mini-Holland

Plans to cycle-proof areas of the city with Sustrans Scotland cash

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Here’s Benidorm’s new ‘cyclist-friendly’ roundabout – what do you think?

We're taking inspiration from Oxford and calling it the hamburger

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Council spends £55k turning cycle lane into car parking

Following lobbying from residents Stoke-on-Trent council will move cyclists onto shared pavement with pedestrians

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Norwich’s “Dutch-style” roundabout designs not Dutch, say campaigners

Plans for the roundabout have been criticised for creating conflict and not protecting cyclists when they need it most

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£4.5m cycle track and sports pavilion planned for Leeds suburb

Project would need to be completed by October otherwise funding would be at risk

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Work starts next week on “radical” cycling plans for Belfast

Campaigners say this is the start of a cycling revolution for the city...and the death of Cyclesaurus

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Video: Pothole Gardener strikes again

Steve Wheen is brightening up London's potholes with flowers and tiny wicker chairs

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TfL working with police to keep motorists off Cycle Superhighways

Transport body says it may take time for everyone to get used to infrastructure

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London tube strikes planned for next week

Winter weather will provide new challenges to newbie commuters, but cycling still the best way to commute during the strike, say campaigners

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Former mayor says “people of Reading beware” about town centre cyclists

Formal consultation to be held on permitting cycling along the full length of Broad Street

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Cyclist tailgated by car – on London Cycle Superhighway

Incident yesterday evening happened across road from TfL HQ

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