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"E-bike owners are reminded to leave their bikes at home on Halloween." When have the cops ever — EVER — advised drivers to leave their cars at home for the sake of kids' safety? Give me a single example.

Tuesday 🌦

Monday ☔️

The key to keeping cars out of bikes lanes isn’t education. It’s physical barriers.

A decision by National Highways (NH) not to build a replacement footbridge over a busy main road on Merseyside has been described as "unacceptable". www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

📣 "New UK bikepacking route is the 'perfect introduction' to adventure cycling, designers say". Fantastic to see @cyclingweekly.com helping spread the word about our new long-distance bikepacking route 🚴‍♂️🌿 🔗 www.cyclingweekly.com/news/new-uk-...

Coffee & cake kinda ride

Highway code rule 56. Dogs. Do not let a dog out on the road on its own. Keep it on a short lead when walking on the pavement, road or path shared with cyclists or horse riders.

‘Cycleway 1’ yesterday as I tried to cycle home safely with my son - no diversion or alternative given. Yes it’s only 1 day. Yes we got off & walked. But until cycling infra is as reliable & treated as seriously as car infra, it will be hard to get the mode shift needed

I challenge the Mayor to cycle from the Ferry terminal to Newcastle and imagine what the Dutch tourists think when they get off the ferry and discover the reality of our cycle infrastructure.

Solicitors Leigh Day have now written to the government seeking the formal written evidence upon which the Minister for the Future of Roads made her decision. This will inform a judgement as to whether there are grounds to seek a full Judicial Review. www.change.org/p/securing-a...

We need to bury @nationalhighways.bsky.social I thought a stop had been put to this kind of stupidity National Highways should not be involved in any railway infrastructure, we have lost far too much already

This shows the folly of putting a dept with zero interest in /remit for keeping the tunnel open in charge of it. Transfer it to an org that actually cares about active travel - they'll get a proper price to make good and will secure the funds.

Important to remember social media (one random dude included) is no bellwether for public opinion www.gov.uk/government/n...

Call to action (is it too late) National Highways has confirmed it will spend £7.5m filling in Queensbury Tunnel in West Yorkshire, which would prevent it from being converted into the country's longest underground cycleway @sustrans.bsky.social chng.it/2NgKnbDHYb

Ride on the wild side 🚵‍♀️ For biking enthusiasts, the Wildcat cycling route takes you on an incredible journey around the Scottish Highlands 🌲 Enjoy breathtaking scenery, including the Cairngorms National Park, where wildcats are roaming once again ➡️ bikepacking.com/routes/the-wildcat

Unfortunately, none cycling community cannot see the positive. tunnels need maintenance, but it could be maintained as a cycleway. Annual upkeep was est at £60k–£100k, funding could come from councils, Active Travel England, grants (like Sustrans or Lottery). better value than £7.5m to bury it

Am looking at this. It's being done by a department of National Highways, which have their own rules separate from the department for transport

The same National Highways who are quite happy to spend £1400m on two roundabouts, won't spend £8-22m on the longest cycleway tunnel in the UK. 🤷🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️☹️ www.highwaysmagazine.co.uk/1bn-Black-Ca...

This doesn't fill me with confidence that active travel is at the forefront of development 😒 Can this not be stopped 😑 It should be repurposed, not destroyed at the cost of millions www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @lauralaker.bsky.social

Focussing on accessibility, Tailfin's Detours bikepacking event opens up a limited number of reduced-price entries. off.road.cc/content/news...

Hopefully I have made my point.

I'll be writing about this in the coming days, but if you're interested in reading about the history of the existing charity-run National Cycle Network, in all its wonderful wonkiness, you can order it from your local book shop, or find it here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/poth...

So pleased the government has listened. I'm totally claiming credit for this one.

What? You’re telling me 339 signatures isn’t enough to ban cyclists from a road?

In what has been described by campaigners as a “historic judgment,” the U.K.’s Court of Appeal has today ruled that cuts to cycling and walking funding imposed by the Conservative government in 2024 and left in place by the current Labour administration were unlawful

Expand the Countryside and Rights of Way Act (CRoW) to include cycling access open.substack.com/pub/midlifec...

Good.

FFS 🤬

#cycling #cyclinglife

We've spoken before about the vastly prohibitive costs of Non-Standard cycles, and how the Wheels4Me.co.uk loan scheme seeks to ease that financial burden. Here's a graphic from the newest version of our Guide to #InclusiveCycling (coming soon!) detailing some of those eye-watering estimated costs.