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May 1, 2025 Alex

Cycling in London – changing patterns across the Thames

Recently, there was some excitement and press releases as a new update of walking and cycling data from the City

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Cycling
August 6, 2020 Alex

Starting to Happen

One of my favourite things is to surf YouTube, hunting for interesting old footage of London street scenes. Yesterday I

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Cycling
July 7, 2020 Alex

Cycle Safari – but at a safe distance #VirtualSafari

I knew some day I would get back to cycle blogging. I never did that much in the golden era,

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Cycling
September 17, 2018 Alex

Going Dutch, again

I first went to the Netherlands in 2013, not long after the London Cycling Campaign’s Love London, Go Dutch campaign

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ConferenceLondon
May 16, 2017 Alex

Hackney Cycling Conference 2017

At the end of April Hackney Council hosted their annual cycling conference. I’ve already summarised the event’s tweets on storify, and here

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CyclingLondon
November 25, 2016 Alex

London Bike Hire – encouraging figures from this summer

As I’m sure you don’t need me to remind you, London now has two major east-west and north-south routes, along

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CyclingLondon
November 15, 2016 Alex

Lost in Transition

We live in interesting times, turbulent even. Cycling doesn’t seem quite like the most important issue in the world, but

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ConsultationsCyclingLondon
March 20, 2016 Alex

Superhighways on the Euston Road?

If only, but it appears to be the latest claim from the increasingly erratic and imaginative twitter account Stop TFHell’s

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CyclingLondon
February 27, 2016 Alex

Here Comes Madge!

Superhighway construction in London continues, but already part-built, disconnected cycletracks – even without being continuous or having most of the

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ConsultationsCyclingHammersmith Broadway
February 9, 2016 Alex

Parallel universes of cycling in West London

Yesterday I wrote about the plans for the cycletrack on the Westway reaching consultation, but today I want to look

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ConsultationsCyclingLondon
February 8, 2016 Alex

But we’re lost on the Westway…

Today after almost three years of build-up the Mayor of London finally released via Transport for London (TfL) plans for

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London
November 8, 2015 Alex

What I learnt from following BorisWatch

A little over a week ago, Tom Barry aka BorisWatch on twitter passed away. There’ve been a few tributes now, but

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CyclingLondon
September 24, 2015 Alex

City of London Cycling Forum 2015

Last week I attended the 2015 City of London cycling forum, an annual open meeting that provides an opportunity for the

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