Infrastructure

Drivers need to be freed from “burden and tyranny” of owning cars, cycling campaigner tells Labour conference

London Cycling Campaign’s Ashok Sinha told the fringe event that cuts to Transport for London’s budget were “bonkers”

“I’ve never seen anything like it”: Cyclists hospitalised by loose gravel crash seek compensation from council

Three Tamworth Cycling Club riders were left badly injured, one in critical care, and with an estimated £10,000 worth of damage after the crash on a road the council admits was scheduled for repairs

Car-Free Day: London cyclists make people-protected bike lane on Old Street, part of key commuting route

Three years on from previous protest, campaigners are still waiting for safe infrastructure on busy Clerkenwell corridior

Cyclists injured on Edinburgh tram line paid £1.2m in compensation

422 cyclists have fallen on the city’s tram lines since 2012, with a local cycling group claiming that safety improvements have come “slowly and too late”

Improvements to “unsafe” roundabout shelved as major cycle route scaled back

Somerset West and Taunton Council say rising construction costs are to blame for the decision, an excuse a local cycling group said “doesn’t hold water”

Pensioner left with broken wrist and black eye after tripping over cycle lane separator

Middlesbrough Council says the newly installed bike lane will continue to be monitored and has advised pedestrians to use designated crossing points

Cycle lane and double yellow lines scheme in Great Yarmouth divides local residents

Norfolk County Council also wants to introduce a weighbridge to stop large vehicles from using Jellicoe Road

Council slaps nuisance notice on family cargo bike parked on pavement

“This case shows the desperate need for cargo bike parking solutions in Hackney… and is another example of the hostile atmosphere towards cyclists,” says Will Prochaska, the bike’s owner

Council paints over cycle lane after drivers keep clipping kerb at new pedestrian refuge

With the installation of a newly-built pedestrian crossing, local cyclists noticed drivers swerving into the painted cycle lane, sometimes hitting the kerb, but it's the council's solution that has confused many

Coach driver tells cyclist with child he “shouldn’t be on the path”… right under a shared use path sign

The cyclist was on his way back from a meeting to support local walking and cycling infrastructure before the confrontation, with the coach driver adding that the cyclist "should be on the road"

Banish cars from the road and make cities cycling-friendly, bus chief urges

“The question is: is the road dedicated mainly to cars? Or is it dedicated to bicycles, and public transport and buses?” asked the Go-Ahead Group’s chief executive Christian Schreyer

Cycling levels dropped in England because “short-sighted councils pulled out protected lanes”

“More people are turning to cycling for shorter journeys to help make ends meet, but they need the safety that dedicated cycle lanes bring,” says Cycling UK

Anti-cycle lane councillor now furious that HGVs are putting schoolchildren in danger

Brighton and Hove councillor Dawn Barnett, who last year threatened to paint over a bike lane used by children to ride to school, has called for lorries to be banned from residential areas

“I am still allowed to praise cycle lanes”: Jeremy Vine responds to BBC impartiality ruling

The Radio 2 presenter was deemed to have breached the corporation’s guidelines after publicly voicing his support for LTNs, but says he is “grateful” that the investigation exposed the “one-way” abuse aimed at him by anti-cycling activists

“Game changing” device allows cyclists to control traffic lights so children stay safe

“We still want safe segregated infrastructure but until then this will help so much,” says Shawlands Bike Bus, the system’s first users

Jeremy Vine breached BBC’s impartiality rules by publicly supporting LTNs

The BBC did acknowledge, however, that the presenter was subject to “personal abuse” by the One Chiswick Facebook group, which opposes cycling infrastructure and Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

How to lose an argument — baffled shop caretaker schooled by cyclists over bike parking

Entertaining scenes unfolded when a man took issue with cyclists locking their bikes to... a PlantLock bike parking unit

Cycle route in Swansea or Alpe d’Huez? Hairpin-packed active travel path opens

We've all got a new favourite cycle path...

New protected bike lanes will benefit both cyclists and businesses, Camden Council says

“We might lose some business, but we will be able to save more lives,” said one local trader

E-bikes finally coming to London’s Santander Cycles Hire Scheme

500 e-bikes will hit the capital’s streets next month as scheme gets major overhaul including pricing

“Terrified” cyclists call for safer infrastructure after drug driver sentenced

Improvements to the cycle lane on Southampton’s Hill Lane, where Kornel Marcinek fatally struck cyclist Joe Burton in July 2021, are due to be made next week

New York cyclist dies – Woody Allen blamed for the lack of cycle lane

The film director objected to a cycle lane on the street where the incident happened

Anti-LTN protestors stop traffic in Oxford

More than 100 demonstrators held up traffic saying "we’re not messing about and we’re not going anywhere"

Council stands firm against vandals and votes to keep low-traffic neighbourhoods

Since introduction last year, the Oxford low-traffic scheme has been targeted by a vocal opposition, including one incident which saw a bollard set on fire

“Accident waiting to happen” gravel cycle path maintained by good-willed resident with a shovel

If you want something done, do it yourself...

“This is just on another level”: Low-traffic neighbourhood vandals set fire to bollard

"The fact that people are taking to arson to express their dislike of the bollards — it's absolutely disgraceful"

School bike bus being used for “political ends”, claims MSP

Tory MSP Sue Webber has been accused of hypocrisy for arguing that Edinburgh school pupils were “pawns in a political game” over the city’s Spaces for People scheme – two years after praising a similar cycle to school initiative

York Police slammed for carrying out vehicle checks – while parked in cycle lane

“Nothing says York isn't really a cycle friendly city better than cycle lanes being taken out of use like this,” said one Twitter user

Warning signs to be placed at “crazy” cycle route steps after 83-year-old injured in horror fall

Torbay Council says it will also consider installing a ramp on the much-derided £350,000 cycle path in Torquay

“A paradise for thieves” – Lidl cycle parking placement prompts planning probe

Discount store secured planning permission on travel plan including putting bike racks outside front of store – but they’ve been placed towards the back