Mayor and TfL to invest £55 million in cycling this year

Some good news.

"To continue to support the huge rise in the popularity of cycling in the Capital, the Mayor and TfL are investing a further £55 million in cycling this year – up from £36 million last year, and a ten-fold increase on the £5.5 million spent on cycling in 2000. This money is being spent on improved cycle parking facilities, education, events and cycle promotion. "

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/cycling-in-london-continues-to-rise-17012

good old Boris!

There is also 2 pages on cycling rules for beginners in the Evening Standard (Rule 3: treat red lights like a pedestrian treats the red man; Rule 8 you don't need a helmet)

55 million! That's alot of green paint.

There is also 2 pages on cycling rules for beginners in the Evening Standard (Rule 3: treat red lights like a pedestrian treats the red man; Rule 8 you don't need a helmet)

Is that for real? They're encouraging you to go through red lights if the coast is clear?

55 million! That's alot of green paint.

lots of fluoro vests

this is old news - ken was the one who set this up a few months ago.

Fuck, dude, I'm GUTTED that prick Boris is the new mayor...

55 million! That's alot of red tape.

Ai

they should introduce one of those 'public bikes' schemes like they have in paris and some other cities in europe.

Is that for real? They're encouraging you to go through red lights if the coast is clear?

I forgot to add that the article is by Andrew Gilligan. And yes that's what he says. It's in today's paper edition/

Some good news.

"To continue to support the huge rise in the popularity of cycling in the Capital, the Mayor and TfL are investing a further £55 million in cycling this year – up from £36 million last year, and a ten-fold increase on the £5.5 million spent on cycling in 2000. This money is being spent on improved cycle parking facilities, education, events and cycle promotion. "

http://www.bikeradar.com/news/article/cycling-in-london-continues-to-rise-17012

VeeVee - do you have the actual background documents for this? (i.e. are there any references?)

Boris only just become a mayor a couple months ago, do you think he had time to actually ask for £55 millions on top of the supposedly £100 million 'routemaster' bollocks? it's all Ken.

D0cA and his research ;) I thought you had exams to do.

It was in a few newspapers today (Metro etc.).
It is bike week this week, that's why it is in the news. You guys need to be a bit more positive :)
At least Boris didn't say "let's scratch that silly budget and and give petrol to poor car owners".

This is an announcement made by the GLA under Ken in February
http://www.london.gov.uk/view_press_release.jsp?releaseid=15612

There is also this piece by Boris and his helmet
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/17/do1701.xml[URL="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/06/17/do1701.xml"][/URL]

^^^ Ha ha. Good article.

im not too sure what its like down in london but up here in my local town, the cycle lanes are rougher than the roads for the stuff they have painted the lanes with, its a lot smoother to cycle on the road just outside of the cycle lane which defeats the purpose but its better.

That's true of some of the cycle lines around West London. If they're segregated, it just means the street cleaners never clean them (they don't fit) and that when the roads are repaired the cycle lanes are not.

tFL had some civil engineer consultant types doing online surveys with big employers earlier this year and were going to get meetings etc. set up to discuss how this money was to be spent , as well as the green paint also funding bike parks and showers/changing and enabling cycleschemes too. Focus seemed to be they've sussed that public transport isn't going to be the answer any more as just not economic to expand it.

I work at UCL Hospitals (6000 employees in central London) and did the online survey things and TFL were supposed to be coming back in June but dunno if project suffered a bit of electoral blight.

Things might start rolling again now BJ can take the credit.

edit was JMP consulting doing the dirty work for TFL