When the roads change, we need to wait a bit… Simon Munk, London Cycling Campaign 13:30 30 January 2020 London Cycling Campaign’s Simon Munk wants new road schemes to be given a chance. Recent road schemes in north London have brought welcome changes to improve safety, cut motor traffic and get more people to ditch […]

Progressive policies help get people on their bike, even in below-freezing conditions Peter WalkerSat 8 Feb 2020 08.00 GMT In London, where I live, the idea of winter cycling generally involves little more than remembering some gloves and making sure your bike lights are charged. In Joensuu, the compact city in eastern Finland, where I

Peter WalkerLast modified on Fri 7 Feb 2020 18.40 GMT The temperature, even at 9.30am, is -13C, and light snow is falling on the already white-blanketed playground. But dozens of primary-age children are out, and doing something you might not expect in such conditions: riding bikes. Teachers say about half of the children at Joensuu

I’m looking across at the mainland again this week towards Sweden and the country’s Vision Zero programme. Sweden is held up as a progressive nation when it comes to dealing with road death, but it wasn’t always the case with road death being treated as an everyday occurrence. The change in approach came in 1995

7 February, 2020 The first report back to Parliament on the progress of the statutory Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy says that the UK has “some way to go to deliver the ambition” and that a spending review due later in 2020 will “be the vehicle for identifying both the scale and type of investment

This week’s Good Cycling Faciltiy is a protected bi-directional cycleway in the city centre of the Hague in the Netherlands. There is an entry point for motor traffic here into a business park – the movements of cycle traffic and motor traffic are completely separated, via traffic signals. There is an induction loop mounted in

Year-long trial will begin with March introduction of 400 electric bikes engineered by Uber and operating in more than 30 countries Thu 6 Feb 2020 A new Uber-owned electric bike-sharing service will put hundreds of bikes on Melbourne’s streets as part of a one-year trial. The cities of Yarra and Port Phillip have signed a

Mark Sutton5 February, 2020 There are links the world over connecting the conversion of space to something more pedestrian and safe cycling friendly to improved retail spend and customer dwell time. Should this be the bike industry’s main campaign aim, asks Laura Laker… It’s a simple fact that every industry needs new customers for it