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London is becoming a cycling city – and it’s the best thing to happen to it in years.
The congestion charge, costly parking, and daily jams mean you'd be insane to drive in the capital – and thousands of new cyclists have come to exactly that conclusion. And, marvellously, London is slowly evolving to suit, with Dutch-style lanes and a thriving cycling culture. Cycle lanes may come and go, irate cabbies might fulminate about red lights, but the tide of cycling is advancing inexorably, driven by sheer weight of numbers.
21 Jan 2016
Andrew Gilligan, the Mayor of London’s cycling commissioner, is drawing up a list of new superhighways he wants to see constructed after Boris Johnson’s term comes to a close. The “legacy plan” includes a new…
3 Jun 2015
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Zebras, pelicans, toucans, puffins, pegasuses (pegasi?)… there’s a bewildering number of types of road crossing, and now London has a Tiger crossing to add to the mix. It’s like a normal zebra crossing…
11 May 2015
A new official app for London’s hire bikes, now sponsored by Santander, lets you take a bike without using the streetside touchscreen terminals. The new Santander Cycles app, available for…
24 Mar 2015
Four designs have made the shortlist for a new cycling and walking bridge over the River Thames at Nine Elms, between Chelsea and Vauxhall. The £40m bridge will link to the…
24 Mar 2015
Shovels have hit the ground on London’s flagship north-south cycle superhighway – and the principal opponent of the east-west route has backed down. Canary Wharf Group had aired the prospect of seeking judicial…
27 Feb 2015
You and I may call them ‘Boris Bikes’, but London’s cycle hire scheme has officially been known as ‘Barclays Cycle Hire’. Barclays signalled last year that it didn’t want to…
24 Feb 2015
East London is to get a new Cycle Superhighway – but a very different creature to the dramatic plans for the cross-London routes. Whereas the recently approved North-South and East-West…
23 Feb 2015
As segregated urban cycleways become more common in Britain, traditional straight-up kerbs have come in for criticism. Standard vertical kerbs reduce the width available to cyclists, and make it more…
New 4 Feb 2015
The news that London has been waiting for came today – the East-West and North-South Superhighways, nicknamed ‘Crossrail for Bikes’ have been approved. Designed with Dutch-style segregation from traffic, the…
2 Feb 2015
Cycling in London is now at its highest rate since records began in 2000, according to Transport for London. Across London’s main roads, cycling levels from September to December were 10%…
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