Transport

Leeds plans 20mph zones in communities along its £29m “super cycleway”

News comes as charity Brake lobbies MPs for lower speed limit, saying 8 in 10 people back GO 20 campaign

As air pollution levels soar should you stop riding?

Experts say cycling is part of the pollution solution

What’s keeping Brits off the bike? In a word: fear, says new study

But majority says cycling should be better provided for, taken seriously and see cyclists as brave

TfL to trial optical & radar detection technology on buses to alert drivers to cyclists and pedestrians

Initiative forms part of draft Pedestrian Safety Action Plan, consultation opens today

Dublin plans 10-fold expansion of hire bike system

Successful scheme had record day in mid March

TfL to provide free Bikeability training to all kids in London

Initiative forms part of new Delivery Plan for Schools and Young People

Chief Medical Officer calls for more to be done to make cycling safer

“What she said!” agrees British Cycling

Chris Boardman helps launch Liverpool’s City Bike scheme – urges locals to embrace it

First hire stations go live next month with 100 bikes, increasing to 1,000 at 100 locations within a year

Cambridge bus boss calls ‘floating’ bus stop plan “absolutely ludicrous”

But cycling campaigners say they're a boon for buses too

2011 Census: Cycling boom in cities masks static national trend

London, Brighton & Hove, Manchester, Newcastle & Sheffield see strong growth - but no change in England/Wales in decade to 2011

First crash of Giro d’Italia 2014 – nearly 2 months before Belfast Big Start

Cycle commuter comes a cropper on pink paint publicising event in Northern Ireland's capital

Two million new cycle commuters about to take to the roads, says CycleScheme

People fed up with overcrowding and squalor of public transport apparently

Elderly rider strays on to M42 near Birmingham with no help from satnav

"A mistake and luckily he was not hurt," say police

Poor roads, bad driving & theft deter Reading cyclists, council admits before rolling out excuses for inaction

Streets too narrow, buses too important, to allocate road space to cyclists, say councillors

‘THINK! Cyclist’ safety poster campaign returns after DfT deems first run last year a success

Poster campaign to run in five cities, but did it change driver behaviour first time round?

LCC urges Londoners to oppose TfL’s King’s Cross gyratory plans – consultation closes on Monday

Campaign group says "interim" proposals fail to make area safer for cyclists

European Parliament sounds beginning of the end for brick-shaped killer trucks

New designs call for elimination of blind spots, & crumple zones

Camden to get London’s first left hook preventing separated junction

Kerbs and phased lights keep cars and bikes apart

Cambridge MP Julian Huppert calls for ‘varsity’ bike link to Oxford

Plans to reopen Oxford-Bedford-Cambridge line already underway

Plans to upgrade A9 fail to provide properly for cyclists, say Scottish Greens

"Nonsense" that costs prevent cycle paths being built, agrees Labour MSP

Planning your ride just got easier with plotaroute.com

“The easiest GPS route plotting site” implements an automatic route plotting feature for cyclists and walkers who want to avoid main roads

Boris Johnson calls for cycle path alongside HS2 high speed railway line

Feasibility study already taking place into path linking London with Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester

Boris Bike-style hire bikes coming to the New Forest

But locals unhappy despite prospect of job creation and reduced car use

Caravan firm sacks driver who was filmed overtaking cyclist with inches to spare (+ video)

Forest of Dean Caravans takes decisive action after video posted to YouTube

Enfield, Kingston and Waltham Forest get £30m each to become Mini-Hollands

Three London boroughs share £90m funding, cash also for five shortlisted boroughs that missed out

Video: Caravan firm “horrified” after cyclist suffers shocking near-miss

Forest of Dean Caravans says it will take disciplinary action against driver filmed passing rider with inches to spare

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Another cyclist follows satnav on to motorway

Police rescue M3 rider before he ends up in Bracknell

Boris Johnson announces 17 more London junctions that will get £200m overhaul – but will they make roads safer?

TfL acts on recommendations of last July's Mayor's Roads Task Force report; work already completed at Euston Square

AA urges drivers to “think bikes” in new road safety campaign

Motoring organisation produces millions of stickers to fix to wing mirrors in move backed by British Cycling and others

Top Gear on Cycling: Well, what did you expect?

James May and Jeremy Clarkson learn to beware of the buses but not much more… And they need some new cycling jokes

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