Cyclist deaths and casualties in London – the facts
There’s been growing heat in recent months about London’s alleged cyclist “carnage” and calls for radical action by the authorities. It’s certainly hard to think of any policy area where official...
View ArticleCycle safety campaigns: do they do more harm than good?
I was interested in the reactions to my post, last week, challenging the urban myth that there is growing cyclist “carnage” on the streets of London. Cycling in London is, of course, less safe than...
View ArticleBoris Johnson: the cycle lobby messes it up
There’s something about cycling which seems to bring out passions greater than it warrants – on both sides of the argument – and I say this as a convinced, indeed passionate cyclist myself. From the...
View ArticleThere are better reasons to be patriotic than the Olympics
The first few days of the Olympics have been accompanied by a clutch of articles about how British patriotism has been rehabilitated, the Union flag reclaimed and so forth. Really? Reclaimed from whom?...
View ArticleI hate to disagree with Bradley Wiggins, but mandatory cycle helmets would be...
• UPDATE: The great man has clarified things on Twitter: "Just to confirm I haven't called for helmets to be made the law as reports suggest. I suggested it may be the way to go to give cyclists more...
View ArticleThe gold rush continues: time to welcome our new Team GB overlords
We’ve gone gold medal mad. Yesterday it was cycling and rowing. Today it’s shooting and canoeing. The economy may be going to the dogs, we may be locked into a war without end in Afghanistan and the...
View ArticleCompare Joanna Rowsell with Wayne Rooney: that's why cycling, not football,...
The Olympic cyclist Joanna Rowsell, who along with her team-mates broke three world records and won a gold at London 2012, has become a poster girl for sufferers of alopecia, the hair loss condition....
View ArticleCycling growth in London tails off
The latest figures for cycling levels on the Transport for London Route Network (TLRN), London’s TfL-controlled main roads, are given in the depths of a paper to the TfL board (page 9 of this PDF)....
View ArticleWe'll never get Britain cycling while bike crime is ignored
My bike was stolen from outside work yesterday – the third in five years, or maybe the fourth. There have been a couple of other attempts where they gave up or satisfied themselves with stealing a...
View ArticleA last, brief plug for my other life…
This'll be the last cycling post I ever write on this site but just to let you know that the new "official" City Hall cycling blog in my other life as London cycling commissioner is now up and running....
View ArticleHow much of top-level sport is clean?
After last year's Olympic games, a columnist for CBS Chicago, Dan Bernstein, wrote an article saying that doping is widespread in top-level sprinting. To think otherwise, he wrote, involved creating...
View ArticleBoris: don't ban cycling with headphones. You'll make people die younger
David Spiegelhalter, the Winton professor for the public understanding of risk at the University of Cambridge, has spent some time looking into the risks and benefits of cycling. Speaking on Radio 4's...
View ArticleWe're not as crazy about cycling as the Tour de France organisers would have...
Yorkshire County Cricket Club were highly suspicious when I contacted them the other night. "Why [do] you need to know?" asked the press officer when I asked about the size of the crowd at the Durham v...
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