Infrastructure

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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Cardiff cyclists call for council to grit Taff Trail

Council says it is prioritising main roads

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Work begins on cycle safety improvements to Bow roundabout

Improvements are interim measures ahead of the Bow Vision Programme

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Highways England confirms cycling works under way at 40 locations

Safe crossings for motorway junctions and separated routes along A roads among projects started

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Robotic cycle parking on the cards for the UK?

Eco Cycle, one company producing the hi-tech bike storage facilities, believes the UK is ready for automated bike parking

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MP claims there is ‘overwhelming opposition’ to Enfield’s Mini Holland

Councillor questions how the survey was carried out

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Taxi leader says cycle superhighway is “sucking the lifeblood of London”

London’s black cab drivers launch High Court challenge to east-west cycle superhighway

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Sheer volume of cyclists causing congestion and crashes on Dutch bike lanes

Report says cycle paths need to be widened to cope with traffic

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“Successful” cycle scheme prompts mirth by baffled cyclists

Twitter erupts in mirth and confusion as engineering company brands cycle route entirely blocked by barrier "successful"

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Highways England’s Cycling Strategy short on detail and funds

Government body will allocate £100m over four years to separate cycle infrastructure, but still a long road ahead to undo decades of underinvestment

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Boris Johnson investigating traffic-free Oxford Street

All mayoral candidates have signed up to banning motor traffic on polluted shopping street - but will Boris go that far?

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Reading could see cycling in pedestrianised shopping street

Public consultation found support for cycling in the Broad Street shopping area

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Outer London cyclists ‘being failed by Boris Johnson’s cycle plans’ say Greens

Funding in outer London inadequate and changes blocked by unhelpful councils, says report

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London cyclists six times fitter than other commuters

Research shows cycle commuters four times more likely to achieve public health exercise targets than non-cyclists, demonstrating health benefits of infrastructure

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Petitions for and against Edinburgh protected cycle route

Debate about impact of shoppers not being able to park outside businesses

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£148m announced for London boroughs to improve road safety

Transport for London and the Mayor are awarding the money to borough projects, including Westminster City Council's criticised Cambridge Circus "Quietway"

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Work begins on £1.7m Leicester bike lane

More than 1,500 signed petition against the new cycle lane arguing it would increase traffic congestion

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Report outlines how Scotland can hit 2020 cycling target

Scottish Green Party urges ministers to rethink plans to cut spending on safe walking and cycling routes to schools

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Germany opens first stretch of bicycle ‘autobahn’

Study estimates track should take 50,000 cars off the roads every day

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Former railway station waiting room becomes Sale Metrolink cycle hub

Victorian railway station building ‘re-cycled’ as Sale’s new hub for bikes

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Forth Road Bridge reopening to cyclists and other traffic

Reopening comes almost two weeks earlier than officials had promised

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Cambridge separated cycleway to be fully open a year late

"Rather optimistic" timetable one of the reasons behind delay to £1.2 million project

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Works begin in January to make Manchester a nicer place for cyclists

Work to road and rail network should make city centre faster and safer on two wheels

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Government makes rare mention of road traffic reduction

In its Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy timetable the Department for Transport mentions reducing motor traffic for first time in 15 years

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Hackney Council forced to backpedal on cycle quietway trial

Local opposition has forced the council to rethink how best to reduce traffic on what will become one of London's cycling "quietways"

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