Am I dicing with death every morning and evening? The Times would say so. I cycle to work, and, for the past two days, the Times has given over its front page to a campaign on cycling safety. The campaign is in most respects commendable — I like the specific proposals — but it emphasises the urgency of the issue by giving a very grim impression of the risks that cyclists face. ‘B...

If all Europeans cycled as much as the Danes, the EU could meet more than a quarter of its 2050 target for a 60% cut in carbon dioxide emissions in the transport sector, according to the first study of cycling’s CO2 mitigation potential. More »

The European Union is pushing for an "integrated approach" to developing the continent's urban infrastructure, encouraging public transport, cycling and the use of electric cars, said Commissioner for Transport Siim Kallas in an exclusive interview with EurActiv Germany. More »

What makes Cambridge a model cycling city? Because it’s flat. Remarkably, our author, a cyclist, doesn’t mention this fairly important fact. You could, for example, have all of the same infrastructure in Bath and you’d end up with the same three mad people you have now on bicycles. Because the place is built on a

Bills on schools standards, the organ donation system and to create more cycling routes will be published by the Welsh Government.

Nick Clegg, the Deputy Prime Minister, has been advised to stop cycling to Downing Street because of a threat from students angry at his broken tuition fees pledge.

I meant to post something long in honor of Jamie giving me a permanent spot here, but then my fiancee got hit by a - thankfully fairly slow going - motorbike while cycling yesterday in Tsinghua. Fortunately it resulted in...

I only ask, because after the Met Police’s triumphant document that stated it would “Contribute to the step change in the walking experience”, we now have London Major Boris Johnson talking of “my role driving forward the Cycling Revolution”.

When she was just eight years old, Madeleine Testyler was rounded up and forcibly taken - together with over 13,000 of Paris' Jews - to city's winter stadium to be transferred to the Nazi concentration camps. Her story is worth repeating. On July 16, 1942, 13,152 Jews, mostly women and children, were rounded up and taken to Vélodrome d'Hiver, the indoor cycling stadium next t...

It is so hard keeping track of the cycling budget. We know that (up to now) whatever is claimed in Mayoral press releases from Boris is different to what has actually been spent. It does feel like there has been a big expansion under this Mayor, but the reality is that in the first two years he spent around £8m less than the previous Mayor promised.