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Campaigners “speechless” at proposed 5mph Glasgow park bike speed limit +Video

Motor vehicles to be limited to 10mph

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£17 million cycle funding announced for London boroughs

Money will go towards initiatives aimed at making cycling safer and easier and getting more people on bikes

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Freight Transport Association: Target rogue lorry operators to improve cycle safety

Lorry operators' trade body says trying to shoehorn safety measures onto rules designed to combat noise at night won't work

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West Midlands MEP calls for cyclist registration, compulsory high-vis & helmets

Nikki Sinclaire wants cyclists "accountable" with registration printed on high-vis tabards

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Latest fares increase makes London bike commuting even better value

£1,250 for a travelcard? You could get a bike for that!

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UPDATE: Police looking into moped rider caught on cam trying to kick London cyclist

Chi Yong La attacked for taking lane in treacherous conditions

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Bikes to be carried on Docklands Light Railway trains

Successful trial last year leads to permanent change in bike carriage rules

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Cyclist uses Strava to map marriage proposal

Two American riders have turned to Strava for help popping the question

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TfGM starts works that will transform cycling in part of Manchester city centre (+ videos)

Bus priority programme which introduces segregated cycle lanes will be completed in 2015

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“Point-making” rider hits back at Jeremy Clarkson

TV presenter lambasts rider for following advice of training bodies, IAM, TfL etc

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London and Paris mayors meet to discuss cycle safety

Boris Johnson swaps ideas with Bertrand Delanoë

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Boris Johnson shoots down “fantastically expensive” SkyCycle plan for cycle routes in the sky

Mayor of London says that other initiatives to improve safety of cyclists must take priority

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Controversy over Bournemouth & Norwich active travel & safety initiatives

Councils accused of wasting money to try and get people out of cars and improve cycling safety

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Video: Who Dhers Wins – Venezuelan BMX ace Daniel Dhers does stunts on back of truck

Multiple X Games champion finds one way of passing time while stuck in slow-moving traffic in Peruvian capital Lima

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Metropolitan Police says Operation Safeway has changed road users’ behaviour in London

Detailed figures of six-week safety drive show nearly 14,000 fined or summonsed, 3 in 10 of them cyclists

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Nottingham allocates £600K to make dangerous junctions safer for cyclists

Nottingham council hopes to get 50% more cyclists on the roads by 2015 and making junctions safer is key improvement

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Two thirds of lorries stopped by police are driven illegally or lack basic safety features

Metropolitan Police also reveal one in three people fined after London road clampdown were cyclists

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Have London’s roads become more dangerous for cyclists? Statistical study says something has changed on London’s roads

It’s not by chance that six cyclists were killed in the capital in 14 days in November, say statisticians

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DfT updates on Door to Door Strategy

Initiative aims to make it easier to combine cycling and walking with journeys by public transport

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Cyclists vs drivers in Bristol’s battle of petitions

Calls for improvements to notorious Gloucester Road

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Aberdeen told: Leave “nice car” at home, take bus or cycle instead

Council says sustainable transport vital if Granite City to grow as business destination

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Love, sex, cheating, bravery, bottoms & Twitter: road.cc’s Top 10 news stories of 2013

It was a year of big, important news stories, but here are the ones you actually read…

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Chris Boardman says planners must cater for the 60 per cent of people who want to cycle but are too scared

British Cycling's policy advisor goes on a walk round London with internet pioneer Sir Tim Berners-Lee

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Towpath bike route could be pedestrian hazard, Leeds councillors warn

£29 million scheme will create cycle superhighway between Northern cities

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Lord Foster takes on plans for London SkyCycle with 135 miles of elevated safe cyclist routes

Boris Johnson and Network Rail said to be interested in elevated cycle superhighways

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Police investigate multiple assaults on Melbourne cyclists

Two men interviewed after series of riders hit by vehicle passenger with rolled-up newspaper

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Boris publishes London map with 60 miles of quiet backstreet cycle routes

Cautious welcome for Mayor’s first draft of cycling map from campaigners

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Boyfriend of cyclist killed by lorry driver tells road.cc he tried to forgive him – because his girlfriend would have done so

Kenji Hirasawa hugged the driver of the lorry that killed Deep Lee at the inquest into her death

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Transport Scotland consults on trunk road 20mph zones trial (+ video)

Five communities across the country to benefit - but campaigners say more places need them

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Cycling lessons for Edinburgh HGV drivers

Edinburgh Council follow Islington in prescribing cycling training to help lorry drivers to "empathise with cyclists"

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