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Infrastructure

Work starts on £1 million Port Salford Greenway

New route will link people to thousands of jobs being created at major new development

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Cycle path that generates energy from sunlight opens in Netherlands (+ video)

SolaRoad pilot scheme generates enough power for three homes - and could eventually appear on roads

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Motorways for bikes? Belgium’s East Flanders province plans 600km – 30Kmh – ‘Cycle Highway’ network

Routes, many already in place, aimed at encouraging people to make 5-20km journey's by bike

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Glow-in-the-dark road markings coming to UK after Netherlands tests?

Luminescent lines like "going through a fairy tale," says designer

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Video: Special edit of Bicycle film highlights calls for dedicated funding

Chris Boardman says he'd trade Olympic gold medal to see cycling become everyday means of getting around

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Cambridgeshire’s ‘cycling champion’ calls for compulsory helmets for children

But admits Dutch-style cycleways would make it unnecessary

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Belfast to get ‘Boris Bikes’ by the Spring

But is the infrastructure in place to ensure cyclists are safe?

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Mayor of London open to Canary Wharf cycle bridge – asks whether it’s “a sort of curly-wurly Fisher-Price thing”

‘Brunel Bridge’ was first proposed by Sustrans in 2006

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Get people cycling for better health, says Public Health England

"Epidemic of inactivity" costs £7.6billion per year

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Second phase of London’s Quietway network announced as major junction review programme also gets underway

Quietways to be extended into all 32 boroughs

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Architects design elevated cycleways along the Regent’s Canal to alleviate congestion

Dismissed as 'potty' by Canal and River Trust

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Boris Johnson sketches out plan for elevated cycle paths running alongside London’s main railway lines

Sustrans welomes proposals, but LCC says priority should be on infrastructure on roads currently used by cyclists

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