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Will UK politicians ever seek to restrain the motorised majority? I signed up to the cycle safe campaign by The Times. There has been some fine reporting on the real and rightly worrying danger posed by motorised traffic but, as today’s paper exemplifies, there’s a risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. There are some good bits in today’s newspaper, there are some [...] Shy bairns get nowt If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen that I had issues with a Stagecoach bus driver on Tuesday. I reported him to Stagecoach and to the police. By Thursday evening Stagecoach had written to me saying they had conducted an investigation, the driver would be disciplined and the company would be “issuing [...] Roads Were Not Built for Cars I’m writing a book about roads history and will be focussing on the period 1880-1905, which saw the Bicycling Boom and then - pop - the start of Motoring Mania. You can learn more about this free e-book in this pitch: The book will be free to download online. I chose this publication model in order to [...] Mass motoring was soooo last century You don’t have to be a statistics boffin to see the flaws in this projection. Clearly, the UK’s love affair with motoring is tailing off. It has reached its peak and it now appears to be on the classic downward bell slope. However, the RAC Foundation which uses the graph in its new report ‘Keep The [...] I’d like to teach the world to cycle in perfect harmony I’d like to build to world a home, and furnish it with love Grow apple trees and honey bees and snow white turtle doves I’d like to teach the world to cycle in perfect harmony I’d like to buy to world a bike, and keep it company I’d like to teach the world to cycle in perfect harmony I’d like [...] Speed sells Mark Cavendish’s victory in yesterday’s world road race championships put him - partially - on the front covers of the Guardian, the Telegraph and the Times. And the BBC asked Could cycling become the UK’s second-favourite sport, after football. Were he to follow up his Copenhagen sprint with a similar burst of speed at the [...] Battle for Blackfriars: Money and power corrupts In media interviews on Friday night - the night of the Blackfriars flashride - Ben Plowden talked about the redesign of the junction on the northern half of Blackfriars Bridge. This is where a bike lane is being squeezed and an extra car lane installed. Cycling groups are dead against this redesign, and so are [...] If Gary Imlach had a bike range… Halfords has today said its like-for-like bike sales in 13 weeks to 1st July have risen 11.5 percent. No doubt its sales will increase even further in the current quarter because of the blanket advertising on ITV4’s coverage of the Tour de France. But I feel the company is missing a trick. Why limit itself [...] Life lesson from the Netherlands: don’t major on bikes, major on people I’m in favour of separated paths for cyclists. I’ve been hammering on about it for the best part of 25 years, with editorials on the subject in the mags I founded such as BicycleBusiness (in issue number one, August 1999, I waxed lyrical about the “tendril-like spread of cycle infrastructure”) and On Your Bike, the [...] In real life, as in Le Tour, some motorists will hit a soft thing before a hard thing “The cars and motorbikes believe that they have priority. They drive in the race without paying attention to the riders. We are the principal actors but we get less and less respect…On small roads like that that car could have waited before going past.” Sandy Casar, FDJ team Source: The Guardian