SIMON_MACMICHAEL MON, FEB 17, 2020 Anne Hidalgo has promised a bike lane on every street in French capital if re-elected Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, who is seeking re-election in next month’s municipal elections, has promised a bike lane on every street in the French capital, with her pledge coming as data reveal that locals

LAURA LAKER FRI, FEB 28, 2020 Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, today announced he’s tripled protected cycle tracks in the city during his four years in the job. Khan told road.cc he believes cycling is a social justice issue and urged people to press politicians for protected routes. In 2016 there were 50km of protected

ALEX BOWDEN SAT, FEB 29, 2020 West Yorkshire Combined Authority has requested £23m to save the tunnel and build a cycle route, but Highways England wants to fill it in Highways England has been accused of wasting taxpayers’ money after it was revealed that it is spending almost £5,000 a week on CCTV inside the

ALEX BOWDEN SAT, FEB 29, TfL says ‘ambitious’ route has ‘presented challenges’ The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, yesterday claimed to have tripled protected cycle tracks in the city during his four years in the job. One route that has not been progressing as quickly as many would like is the proposed Cycleway between Camden

SIMON_MACMICHAEL WED, JAN 15, 2020 SIMON_MACMICHAEL WED, JAN 15, 2020 13:20 Document compiled by European Cyclists’ Federation aims to be essential point of reference for campaigners Delivery firm FedEx Express has teamed up with the European Cyclists’ Federation (ECF) and the Global Alliance of NGOs for Road Safety to produce a new technical guide highlighting

Mark Sutton26 February, 2020 Over the past ten years cycling spend by local authorities has averaged just £2 per head annually on dedicated infrastructure, new research by the Nottingham Trent University has found. Researchers Dr Seamus Allison and Aoife Allison made freedom of information requests to 55 English Unitary Authorities, requesting data on populations served,

SIMON_MACMICHAEL THU, FEB 20, 2020 Essential seven-month works to preserve reinforced concrete structure are eight years overdue London Bridge is to be closed to all traffic other than bikes, buses and licensed taxis for seven months from mid-March while work is undertaken to replace the waterproofing below the road surface of the structure, which in

SIMON_MACMICHAEL MON, FEB 10, 2020 Well-connected PR firm boss’s nomination for voluntary role backed by British Cycling and Sir Chris Hoy, among others Adam Tranter, who as CEO of PR firm Fusion Media works with some of the biggest names in Britain’s cycling industry including Brompton Bicycles and Evans Cycles, has been appointed Bicycle Mayor

SIMON_MACMICHAEL SUN, FEB 09, 2020 Work has started on an off-road cycle route in East Lothian that campaigners have spent 15 years fighting to have built in what is one of the longest-running disputes in modern Scottish legal history. The route between Gullane, which lies east of Edinburgh on the Firth of Forth, and Drem