In the news

The latest Local Transport Today mag page.5 states that Mayor of London Boris Johnson has decided to permanently allow motorbikes in 478km of TfL's 580km bus/cycle lanes.

The first 18 month trial showed collissions rose. So Boris added another18 month trial which concluded with a 23% rise in motorbike collissions around bus lanes. Also the numbers of cyclists rose from 10 cyclists in the first 18 months to 25 for the second 18 month trial.

:(

I was riding in pretty late along CS7 this morning and I got buzzed no less than 10 times by motorbikes trying to overtake at various pinch points in the traffic by gunning it past at the last second as I approached a hazard and had began to move around it.