Blood on the streets

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2013/dec/03/london-cycling-provisions-laughable-bike-blog

One of Johnson's plans is for a pair of segregated cycle routes crossing London, north to south and east to west. Such routes could also be counterproductive, Gehl argued: "It's again something that's good for the freaks who like to go at high speed. It's not good in a city to do 40kmph on a bicycle. We should do 20kmph. The best way to get the 40kmph to slow down is to put a lot of grandmothers and children in the bicycle lanes. It slows down the whole thing and it gets more civilised."