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Freight Transport Association says “blanket” London Safer Lorry Scheme proposals not the answer

Lorry owners' group says targeting operators with poor safety standards prefereble

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Sainsbury’s unveils safer lorry as Boris Johnson launches consultation

Mayor of London hopes to get rid of dangerous vehicles by next year - but victim's son says roads to unsafe to cycle

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Southwark backs down on 20mph cycling limit

London borough accepts that law doesn't allow speed limits for bikes

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Southwark can’t impose speed limits on cyclists, says CTC

Road traffic regs only allow highway speed limits for motor vehicles

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Southwark plans crackdown on 20+mph cyclists

Mind your speed south of the river

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Video: New cycling bridge takes Copenhagen’s legions of bike riders across city’s harbour

220m-long 'cycle snake' bridge removes conflict with traffic and pedestrians and need to negotiate staircases

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Bristol councillor says £35m set aside for cycling would be better spent on rail

Conservative standing as MP at next year’s general election says plans “unrealistic” and “too proscriptive”

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Helsinki hire bike & public transport vision to render car ownership pointless

Maybe not entirely – but radical strategy based on smartphones will make end-to-end multimode journeys easier

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MP supports petition calling for time trialling to be banned on A50

Andrew Griffiths says cyclists "have brought the petition on themselves"

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Top brands up for sponsoring London Cycle Hire Scheme as tender process opens (+ video)

TfL expects to announce new partner for scheme in early 2015

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Bristol plans £35 million spend on cycleway network

£16 per head per year to get 20 percent commuting by bike by 2020

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Air pollution makes Oxford Street buses double hazard for cyclists

World's highest level of toxic gas found on London's main shopping street

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Enfield cyclists stage ‘cash mob’ – spending money to reassure traders cycle paths won’t mean less business

Enfield is to become a London 'mini-Holland' - but shopkeepers fear loss of parking spaces will deter shoppers

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Call for action as TfL stats reveal buses pose as big a danger to cyclists as lorries

Green Party in London pushes for safer buses and examination of dangerous bus routes

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Video: London cyclist gets £50 for straying off shared use path blocked by phone box

Councillor hits out as cycling campaigner hit with £50 fine for moving out of cyclist area of shared use path

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Segregated cycle lane planned for £600m east London bridge

Plans unveiled for claimed much-needed link – but will it see the light of day?

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British Cycling and Leeds Cycling Campaign propose transformation of Leeds centre

Can the Motorway City of the Seventies be made cycling-friendly?

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Half of Britons say local roads too dangerous for cycling in BBC poll

Campaigners call for more space — and money — for cycling

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Help turn the Space for Cycling campaign national

Turn the Space for Cycling campaign map green by asking your local councillor to adopt simple pro-cycling measures

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Awesome stickers update: they sold out, more on the way… plus get free ones!

Everyone feels like sharing the love this week, it seems...

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New app helps cyclists on the move find the gear they need at the best price too (in London)

Need to know the shortest distance between you and that vital chainring/tyre/jersey? Pocket High Street can help… if you're in London

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Share the love on the road with a stay awesome sticker

Let the two-wheeled community know you care even when you're driving

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Transport for London agrees to scrap ‘Stay Back’ stickers

Victory for road safety campaigners as hostile driver behaviour shown to be linked to "offensive" stickers

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Video round-up: Aliens, mattresses and a kamikaze squirrel + ‘fun loving’ bus driver & more

This week's edition of our video round-up

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Campaigners warn Newcastle risks losing millions of pounds in DfT cycle funding

Newcycling worried over delays in implementing Cycle City Ambition funded scheme

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Oxford and Bath relaunch their cycle hire schemes as they find new operators

Bikes by the hour back on the streets in Oxford and Bath after new operators are found to run schemes

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Cyclehack 2014 – Glasgow one of five cities brainstorming ideas for better cycling this weekend (+ video)

Beirut, Belfast, Melbourne and Tbilisi also

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US bike hire schemes linked with greater risk of head injury – or are they?

Study claims US cities with share programs see greater proportion of head injuries among all bike-related injuries - but the number of head injures went down

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P’tit Velib’ – Paris launches cycle hire scheme for children aged 2-8

300 hire bikes at five locations across city - could they inspire Baby Boris Bikes in London?

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Video: Jeremy Paxman and Boris Johnson take to the streets on a tandem

"It's a bloody nightmare" to cycle in London, TV presenter tells mayor in clip from final show

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