The more cycling infrastructure we build the more serious cyclist injuries we get, instead of stopping and asking what went wrong our government wastes more money doing the same thing, it's insanity.

This is @willnorman’s own chart for killed and serious cyclist injuries, 2017 to 2025. They show an eye watering 75% increase since he became cycling commissioner! He says there is more to do!

Exclusive: London transport chiefs accused of 'cover-up' over record high cycling casualties on city's roads standard.co.uk/news/london/c…

The NYC bike cult is melting down. Electric bikes and those Onewheel things are now flying through the bike lanes at 50 mph like it’s the Autobahn, and the same people who spent years screaming “defund the police” and “cops out of bike lanes” are suddenly crying that nobody’s enforcing the law. You wanted wide-open, unprotected bike lanes with zero barriers and zero policing? You got them. You fought to gut enforcement while demanding more bike infrastructure? You got that too. Now technology did what technology always does — e-bikes got faster, more powerful, and cheaper — and suddenly your little progressive playground is a high-speed demolition derby. What exactly did you expect? Enjoy the mayhem you created, bike bros and transplants. This is the world you built. Ride it. ⚡🚲💨

The @cityoflondon thinks these are fine and “not unlawful discrimination”. @TfL and the @MayorofLondon says they are accessible along with Government ministers. Blind people are being systematically excluded from travelling beyond their local area because of them, all driven by the cult of cycling.

Just spent 20 hours in a cell for filming a motorist breaking the law. The 'but cars' brigade can blow me.

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Filmed this recently in Amsterdam. Many cyclists, e-bike & moped riders took priority over pedestrians at zebra crossings, some at speed. We are told it works in the Netherlands, however, it is very clear that Dutch pedestrians are not at the top of the hierarchy of road users.

tHeY wOrK iN tHe NeThErLaNdS.

This is a long post but fascinating & enlightening. It is the words of Stephen Dering of the Matrix Design Group who studied the infrastructure barriers disabled people face by focusing on the bus stop. "Today was my first major presentation pertaining to my PhD. At the Disability Studies conference at the University of Leeds, I presented part of my thesis: The bus stop as a site of designed absence: Disability, infrastructure, and the politics of movement in the city. My presentation asked a simple but revealing question: what does the bus stop tell us about whose movement is imagined in the city? Based on my University of Glasgow PhD research in Greater Glasgow, I used the bus stop as a lens to explore how urban design quietly shapes who is expected to move, wait, and belong in public space. Bringing together urban design, critical disability theory, and ethnographic observation, I argued that many bus stops are sites of designed absence - spaces built through the exclusion of disabled bodies and ways of moving. Through images of Glasgow’s “floating bus stops” and everyday encounters with broken pavements, missing ramps, and shelters that offer little shelter, I showed how inaccessibility is not an accident. The bus stop, then, becomes more than a place to wait, it is a mirror of the values embedded in our infrastructure, revealing whose time and mobility are protected, and whose are made impossible. By foregrounding the textures of disabled experience in these ordinary sites, my research challenges the persistent “invisibility” of infrastructure within Disability Studies. I called for a crip infrastructure politics: an approach that refuses to see inaccessibility as inevitable and instead reimagines public space through interdependence, care, and the diverse rhythms of disabled life."

Here is a meta-study/summary from TfL with claims extracted from various studies. But if you interrogate each one, you find caveats, qualifications and misrepresentations. For example "Cycling delivers 5x the retail spend per square metre than the same area of parking". But this is based on an assumption that a provided visitor space will be used - it's about spatial efficiency, not spend. In the study the quote is said to come from, they make this clear, and that cycling visitor infrastructure does not scale beyond a few racks, because the customers are not there. TfL: content.tfl.gov.uk/walking-c… & Saffrey study on which 5x claim is based: assets.publishing.service.go… Note their comment - that the evidence available is "very limited", and essentially based on theoretical spatial efficiency. If you drill down to the very thin evidence available, you will find admissions that car users spend more, and nothing more than a hope that cycling spatial/storage efficiency can translate to spending. Drill down, read the actual studies - I can guarantee most evangelists for the schemes have not done this - the OP may wish to clarify. It is all based on an inverse pyramid, scarce data, micro-samples and experiment design led by people already lobbying for these schemes, then a chorus of evangelism on BlueSky, X, media organisations like the @guardian (where journalists actually lobby in person for these schemes in real life). The way to draw them out is to get them to admit their limited vision for town centres and high streets, basically a place to get a coffee rather than shop for a wide variety of goods, especially healthy foods to take home and cook, *not* eat out all the time.

When “Active Travel” was created it was simply a way for the bicyclists to muscle out the pedestrian advocates. This was a deliberate and conscious plan.

Also questions have to be raised about injuries that have been reported to the police but not recorded in STATS19. How could this injury not make it into STATS19? It was reported to the police but if you search for it - it’s not there.

'Forced onto the road': Residents plead for repairs to unsafe pavements i.stv.tv/4tlwQfS

Very disappointing that councillors today rejected our call to increase spending on pavement maintenance. Budget held for 4th year in a row now - while the spending on roads ('carriageway') has more than doubled. #SustainableTravelHierarchy

I am astonished by Paul Holden's claim below that the BBC neither notified him of Josh Simons's latest attacks on him, nor gave him right of reply ahead of the appearance of Simons's interview all over the BBC News website - a total betrayal of basic journalistic principles

Prioritising cyclists speed & convenience over pedestrians and bus users safety has resulted in everyday people distancing themselves from the cycle lobby and turning away from cycling. #DeclineInCycling #FloatingBusStops #LTNs

I had read this Chong study in the past but completely forgotten about it, in part because the DfT's own stats showed that a pedestrian was slightly more likely to be KSI'd in a collision with a bicycle than a car. Nevertheless, here it is in @activetraveleng own review