Cycle campaigning

At the end of the day, it's a lot of constructive and positive work, usually behind the scenes that makes the difference

• slightly playing devil's advocate here, but I guess the direct-action guys would say that that work, if it has been happening, hasn't made any meaningful difference in most of London. And they are also engaging with TfL; TfL see them as a group who need to be engaged with, even if the aggregate LFGSS opinion is much harsher.
  
  

'Die-ins' aren't direct action, they're just protests. Direct action is things like land occupations. Also, I always have to laugh when people say that the work on improving cycling hasn't been fruitful in London. It's made a massive difference. Fifteen years ago, cycling wasn't even talked about much in public except in newspaper columns talking about 'lawless cyclists' or on footway cycling. Needless to say, there's still a long way to go, but we wouldn't have got here if it hadn't been for a lot of very boring work. When people aren't aware of that, it's a typical case of short memories and being unable to imagine a past different from the present.