Infrastructure

US city makes it the law to add protected cycle lanes when roads are repaired

Move is designed to combat NIMBYism

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Plans for over 1,000km of walking and cycling routes connecting Glasgow city centre to parks and nature areas

Ambition is for no resident to be more than five minutes’ walk from Green Network

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Government provides £21m for National Cycle Network

Also confirms continued funding for Big Bike Revival

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Next wave of Bee Network projects: £137m to be invested in 18 new cycling and walking schemes around Manchester

Schemes include an £11.6m route linking Piccadilly and Victoria stations through the Northern Quarter

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Campaigners to form ‘people protected bike lane’ on Old Street in protest at lack of action by Islington Council, with safety improvements not due until late 2021

Three cyclists have lost a leg after being crushed by trucks in the last five years

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Councillor campaigning against CS9 schooled on cycling by police

Why isn’t filtering considered close passing?

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Not ‘Super’ anymore – Cycleways confirmed as new name for London’s Cycle Superhighways and Quietways

London's cycle route networks to be renamed Cycleways to provide more mass appeal and end association with speed

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London’s lethal Holborn gyratory to get £12.6 million makeover for safer cycling as TfL unveils 11 new projects across the capital

Projects in Brixton, the City and Croydon also among those announced today under Liveable Neighbourhoods programme

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Former London cycling commissioner accuses mayor of building “fake cycle network”

Suggests a large proportion of completed work amounts to little more than rebranding routes as Quietways

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Cyclists left baffled by signs in Nuneaton

Warwickshire County Council says signs were installed incorrectly

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Highways England to spend £17m on cycling projects alongside A30 in Cornwall

30km of projects due to be delivered by spring 2021

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Cycling campaigners in Chester win battle to improve safety at new bus interchange

Previous layout meant cyclists were faced with oncoming traffic with many drivers unaware of contraflow cycle lane

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Contraflow cycle lane in Plymouth rendered useless by drivers parking in it

Ceri Carter says she's raised the issue with the council and the police but to no avail as yet

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Cyclist who crashed due to rising bollard in safety plea

Pauline Mickelburgh says bollard that caused her crash on Watford High Street is too close to bike lane

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Birmingham blue routes get blue response from drivers

Stretch of A38 route will run down the central reservation

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Leading Australian motoring organisation urges Victoria’s government to build cycle superhighways for Melbourne commuters

Royal Automobile Club of Victoria highlights 10 routes to state government where it says cycling infrastructure would ease congestion

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Court of Appeal upholds Westminster’s legal block to Cycle Superhighway 11 – campaigners brand council’s action “shameful”

Sadiq Khan says blame for "disappointing decision" must be pinned on council

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Screws found embedded in recently opened £2m West Sussex cycle path are the result of a “malicious act”

Sustrans volunteer believes cyclists using path between Littlehampton and Bognor Regis have been targeted deliberately

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Levenshulme bidding to become Manchester’s first ‘Mini Holland’

Aim is to reallocate road space to reduce car use for short trips and to increase levels of cycling and walking

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West London priest who asked parishioners to pray against Cycle Superhighway is converted after plans tweaked

Father Michael Dunne says changes prove that "consultation brings changes which benefit the community"

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Evening Standard’s George Osborne comes out against Embankment Cycle Superhighway as newspaper appears to nail its colours to the mast early for next year’s London mayoral election

Former Chancellor joins fellow Tories in blaming infrastructure for pollution and congestion and calling for re-routing of CS3

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Manchester’s Beelines renamed the Bee Network after copyright issue with London firm

Chris Boardman was one of the investors in the Beeline bike compass Kickstarter project

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London’s cycling commissioner hits back at critics of cycling strategy

Will Norman says more routes are being funded, while new quality standards will deliver improved infrastructure

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New roads should prioritise cyclists and pedestrians says NICE

Health watchdog recommends reallocating road space and charging motorists

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Safety measures made at two paths in Norwich after cyclist’s death

Review conducted by city and county councils in response to coroner's findings

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Has Newcastle cycle spending neglected poorer areas?

Councillor says funding should be directed so as to tackle inequalities

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Work to begin on CS4 in summer 2019

Money reallocated from pedestrianisation of Oxford Street

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Work starts on key cross-city Cambridge cycle route after two decades of campaigning

The Chisholm Trail - named after the Camcycle trustee who first proposed it - is due to be complete by 2020

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Tory candidate for London mayor ridiculed over Cycle Superhighway 3 comments

Shaun Bailey claimed that cycle route along Embankment left riders "pinned up against the river"

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Cabbies cause gridlock by blocking London Bridge for fourth night running in protest at TfL pro-cycling, bus and pedestrian plans – but cyclists breeze through

meanwhile, Will Norman insists East-West Cycle Superhighway here to stay despite black cab trade-backed campaign against it

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