At the launch on Thursday of the London Assembly Transport Committee’s update on cycling, its chair, Valerie Shawcross, made the point that all the parties on the Assembly support the idea of boosting cycling. While on the face of it that is true, progress is still painfully slow and there do seem still to be […]

The absolute horror of five cycling deaths on London’s streets in the past nine days demands urgent action.Here’s what the mayor should be doing: 1. Reassess the cycling superhighways and improve them urgently. This can be done with plastic road barriers, paint and other emergency measures. 2. Analyse the precise cause of these and other […]

Article in London Cyclist published June 4 2013 Not long ago, we discussed the Conservative Mayor of London’s Vision for Cycling with his newly appointed Cycling Commissioner Andrew Gilligan. Now, we speak to Christian Wolmar, former LCC trustee and respected transport journalist, who’s also a prospective Labour candidate for the next London mayoral election. Q: […]

I’ve signed a letter in the Daily Telegraph today supporting the idea of cycling being on the national curriculum. Swimming already is but cycling is a much more accessible activity for kids all the time and, of course, with proper facilities they could cycle to school. Moreover, by making cycling part of the curriculum, it […]

The mayor’s blueprint for cycling has been welcomed by cycling groups and others across the capital and rightly so. While Boris Johnson’s first attempt at improving cycling was a hotchpotch of ideas with poorly designed ‘superhighways’ at their heart, the mayor seems to have learnt the lesson of this failure and adopted most of the […]

Talking with Philip Darnton, who was the superb chair of Cycling England until its shameful abolition, the other day, he made an excellent point which all pro-cycling people ought to understand: improving cycling facilities is not about making cycling better. It’s a much wider issue. Having more cyclists on the streets changes the very nature […]

My Times article and this website attracted lots of attention - with more than 1,000 visitors to this site and plenty of offers of help, for which much thanks. I will be pursuing them over the coming months as the campaign builds up. I will be posting regularly here setting out my ideas for London, […]

I spoke recently at the London Cycling Campaign campaigners’ conference. It was a heartening experience with around 100 people attending and plenty of enthusiasm. I pointed out that change comes in several guises. We are often overwhelmed by the scale of what needs to be done and it often feels that trying to get things […]