Transport

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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London cycling less safe, improving too slowly says report

Riders demand segregated infrastructure to improve safety

Chris Boardman to assess Jeremy Clarkson’s cycling safety public information film on Sunday’s Top Gear

So that's what he and James May were doing riding bikes in London a few weeks ago

Local cyclists and activists hit out at design of new junction after Southampton hit-and-run

"Cycle-friendly" "Dutch-style" crossing doesn't appear to be either

Video: Cereal offender filmed eating breakfast while driving Maserati

Glasgow man munching in morning traffic

Video: Reports of “chaos” caused by M25 cyclist “an exaggeration”

Police video reveals traffic speeding past despite motorists' claims presence of rider had caused delays

£300m to be spent on making 33 of London’s most dangerous junctions safer for cyclists & pedestrians

Boris Johnson & TfL announce programme that will see "60s relic" gyratories scrapped & segregated cycle lanes introduced

Video: Edinburgh Council issues tram cycle safety film, but cyclists’ fears remain

Cyclist who came off bike says more needs to be done to ensure safety of riders as daytime testing begins in city centre

Metropolitan Police fines pavement cyclists – but were they right to do so?

Minister Robert Goodwill has said 1999 Home Office guidance on "considerate" riding on footway still valid

Official: UK has joint 3rd lowest levels of daily cycling in the EU

Research from Eurostat also finds UK citizens most likely to believe congestion will worsen on urban roads

Bikeability Scotland: Report reveals cycle training postcode lottery for Scottish school children

Training available to children in three in four primary schools in some areas but fewer than one in 10 elsewhere