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Cambridge’s guided busway is getting people on bikes, finds study
A new study suggests that Cambridgeshire’s five-year-old guided busway is encouraging more cycling. The health study by the Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge is published today in the...
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Boris opens London’s first separated cycle superhighway
People on cycles now have a fully-protected route through one of London’s busiest gyratories and across Vauxhall Bridge after London Mayor Boris Johnson officially opened the new Oval to Pimlico cycle...
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Long-distance Italian cycle route is smooth & not blocked with barriers,...
In September, John Grimshaw and David Gray spent a week cycling on part of the Ciclopista de Sol cycle route – the “Sun cycle path” – in Italy. Grimshaw is the co-founder and former CEO of Sustrans;...
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Trunk road separated cycleways will be paid for from the roads budget not...
Building new roads is not good for the local environment, for the planet or, thanks to induced demand, even for motorists, but from plans I’ve been shown it may seem that some of the major...
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Bike bridges and more washed away in Cumbrian floods
At least two bicycle bridges have been lost to floods in Cumbria and several paths and roads within the National Cycle Network are submerged, reports Sustrans. NCN route 71, Hadrian’s Cycle Way and...
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SEO agency helps car insurer create cycling microsite that features “presumed...
A search engine optimisation firm has helped a car insurance specialist to create an information “hub” on cycling. Alongside a dodgy poll about mandatory cycling proficiency tests for all cyclists...
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260,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases not emitted thanks to London’s 222 million...
Cycle journeys in London save the equivalent annual carbon emissions of 82,000 cars, says Sustrans. New evidence from Sustrans London shows that over 260,000 tonnes of greenhouse gases were saved from...
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Trainee footballer rides reconditioned bike to and from training and work
Trainee footballer Gerard Duarte Dos Santos has kicked-off his apprenticeship with a reconditioned bike and cycling accessories from West Yorkshire Combined Authority’s Travel2Train scheme. Dos Santos...
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Gravel-bike owners will be disappointed with smooth upgrade for cycle route...
A cycle route through the heart of the New Forest has been upgraded with a smooth asphalt surface. The work was paid for with £325,000 from the New Forest National Park Authority’s £2m cycling fund...
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Bikeability secures £50m in funding from Department for Transport
The Department for Transport has today announced it is to secure the future of Bikeability cycle training. £50m is to be provided, enabling the delivery of Bikeabilty for the next four years. A...
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Call for papers as it’s revealed Leicester is to host Cycle City 2016
Cycle City will be hosted in Leicester in 2016. The two-day cycle policy and planning conference has previously been staged in Birmingham and Leeds, and last year was held in Newcastle. Leicester is...
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Map shows that car-ownership in cities is less than politicians might think
A new map-and-data merge vividly demonstrates that many urban areas in England and Wales have electoral wards where the majority of people don’t own cars. Some wards in London, Newcastle and other...
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Sustrans Scotland launches new promotional video for Caledonia Way cycle route
Long-distance Scottish cycling route the Caledonia Way is being upgraded, and is scheduled for completion this spring. In advance of the official launch, Sustrans Scotland has launched a video which...
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Government infographic spells out cycling’s economic benefits
Highways England, a government-owned company, has produced an infographic that lists cycling’s many health, social, economic and congestion-busting benefits. The graphic was included in a new Cycling...
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Training is not an alternative to good infrastructure, confirms trade body
TABS, the Association of Bikeability Schemes, has issued a statement confirming that it does not believe cycle training takes the place of good cycling infrastructure, such as cycleways. This topic is...
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MPs and a Lord urge Transport Secretary to do more for cycling
MPs – and a Lord – from the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group met with Secretary of State for Transport Patrick McLoughlin yesterday, and pressed him on his department’s lacklustre support for...
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Chill out to ride and drive safe this winter, urges CTC and AA
CTC and the AA have joined forces to issue a list of winter guidelines to ensure cyclists and motorists share the road safely during the current cold snap. With lying water now freezing over on...
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Borders Bike Festival of Scotland rebrands with a little bit of help from a...
The Borders Bike Festival – a combination of a Marathon mountain bike event and the Selkirk Raid, a mountain bike enduro event – is now known as the Orbea Borders Bike Festival after the Spanish cycle...
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Police advising people about riding bikes on a no-cycling Newcastle street...
Northumberland Street is a wide shopping street in Newcastle upon Tyne. Before it was fully pedestrianised in the 1980s it was part of the A1 between London and Edinburgh. In peak times it is thronged...
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Drivers who cycle are more likely to support bike infra
A new study has found that drivers don’t think highly of the road behaviour of cyclists. Naturally, this can be filed in the do-bears-poop-in-the-woods category of findings, but the study also reports...
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