Dan Alexander Feb 04, 2022 
The founder of Fair Fuel UK, which lobbies the government over fuel duty, has penned a provocative opinion piece published in The Sun(link is external) newspaper, attacking last week’s Highway Code changes, calling them a “cyclists’ charter to ride any way they wish”.
Howard Cox’s article titled ‘Lunatic Highway Code will just encourage road rage and put cyclists at risk – Government must rethink it now’ claimed the changes “must have been authored by an asylum inmate”.

Dan Barnes
AN ACTIVE travel group within a town council is being disbanded following accusations from one councillor that it had become a “sleeper cell” of cyclists.
In a transcript of the Monmouth Town Council meeting held on Monday, January 24, which has been shared with the Argus, a councillor has launched a scathing attack on the town’s Active Travel contingent.

Lauren Pearson January 11, 2022
Cycling is healthy and sustainable, but only 1.7% of trips in Melbourne are made by bike. Car use has soared since lockdowns were lifted. 
We surveyed over 4,000 Victorians and found more than three-quarters are interested in riding a bike, but only in infrastructure that separates people from cars (such as off-road paths or protected bike lanes).
This proportion is far higher than previously thought, highlighting a huge opportunity to increase bike-riding rates by building separated bike lanes.

Ross Lydall @RossLydall 2/2/22
The risk of cyclists and pedestrians being killed or injured must be considered before Transport for London axes road safety schemes, an aide to Sadiq Khan has warned.
Dr Lynn Sloman said she was concerned that the safety of people walking or cycling was not prioritised highly enough against the need to maintain the capital’s bridges and road tunnels.

1,000 locals have signed a petition opposing the scheme in Beeston, though one resident claimed campaigners have “catastrophised” the ban
Ryan Mallon 5/2/22
A plan to encourage cycling by banning motorists from a cut-through road described by locals as a “race track” has been delayed after a petition against the proposals secured over 1,000 signatures.
Last month we reported that Nottinghamshire County Council was planning to introduce an Experimental Traffic Regulation Order (ETRO) which would stop cars from accessing the narrow Dovecote Lane in Beeston. 
The planned closure, which will be enforced using planters, is being funded by the DfT’s Active Travel Fund and aims to encourage cycling in the area “for all ages”.

If aliens were watching Earth, they’d think cars were the apex species. I mean, just look. If they looked down, this is what they’d see:
Roads
Road, roads everywhere. 20% of the earth’s surface is within 1km of a road, and the rest is vivisected into 600,000 pieces, most of them tiny.
Where there aren’t roads, there’s parking.
Parking
Parking, parking, with no one there. In LA there’s more parking spaces than human spaces (housing). As Strong Towns says, “parking is the dominant physical feature of the postwar American city,” and this car cancer has spread all over the globe.
Aliens can see it from space.
Predators

Graeme Paton, Transport Correspondent May 26 2020
The roads funding plan came days after the government pledged £2 billion to boost cycling
A £90 billion upgrade of England’s motorways and main A-roads is planned despite commitments during the pandemic to fund green transport.
An official document shows that Highways England, the government-owned company, has proposed significant improvements to the country’s busiest roads over the next 15 years.
This month the government announced a £2 billion package to promote cycling and walking. Last weekend it unveiled a further £283 million to increase bus and tram services.
A day policing a smart motorway
In the March budget, the chancellor announced a £27 billion investment in motorways and main A-roads in England over the next five years.
At the same time, the Office of Rail and Road, the official watchdog, published its own “efficiency review” into Highways England’s longer-term plans. 

Steven Morris
A “green corridor” inspired by the 18th-century fashion of perambulating for both pleasure and therapy is to be created, linking the city of Bath with the rolling hills that surround it.
The corridor is the first of 20 projects that the National Trust is planning to design to connect urban areas in England, Wales and Northern Ireland to green spaces on their fringes.
In Bath, the conservation charity has acquired water meadows close to the River Avon which were threatened with development to help piece together a three-mile green corridor, which will also use existing footpaths.
Hilary McGrady, the director-general of the National Trust, said the route – and the 19 others that are planned to follow by 2030 – would help reconnect people with the countryside.

Chris Boardman
A little over a decade ago my daughter Aggie asked me a question that changed the path of my working life. She asked: “Can we ride to the park?” It wasn’t her question that altered everything, it was my answer – which was: “No.”
We live in a typical northern seaside town, and the park in question was – I know because I measured it later – 549 metres away, a distance that takes a little over one minute to ride. I, an ex-Olympic cyclist, didn’t feel I could keep my daughter safe on our roads for one minute. And that felt very wrong. It wasn’t what I wanted for her, and it wasn’t the place I wanted to live. So I decided to do something about it.