Boris bikes and cycle superhighways - your views needed

http://www.taxinewspaper.co.uk/downloads/Taxi_314.pdf

Cycling is the new climate change: it’s driving policy peddled by suits out to wreck London

As well as the above two pieces of bullshit, the LDTA are attempting to nobble the scheme by teaming up with Canary Wharf Group to potentially launch a Judicial Review. Ibikelondon has an article: http://ibikelondon.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/as-ltda-goes-to-war-with-cyclists-we.html

Bill Oddy

Bob Oddy:

Lol. So he is. Yeah, you might want to avoid traducing innocent twitchers.

Santander Cycles anyone?

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/santander-boris-bikes-red-blue-barclays-new-sponsorship-deal-10074545.html

Saw first one yesterday. Mild excitement. What are the chances of the Great South London Bight being filled in now?

Here's the updated one when they extended it to the SW:-

is it built yet?

The reason it's not made it to the SE yet, and why it probably won't for a while.

Is Haringey still getting the e-Boris Bikes?

I'll be tackling London's famous London on a Ken/Boris/Barclays/Santander bike today and tomorrow. (Mainly central and west.)

Is there anything I need to know? I've downloaded the app to make things easier.

Anyone who uses CS3 should have a read of this. They're proposing scrapping the segregation in one direction and putting people back in with the cars. I thought the tide was flowing just one way at the moment, but apparently not...

http://www.towerhamlets.gov.uk/News_events/News/february_2016/Traffic_changes_proposed_for_Cable_Street.aspx

Ah, I've replied in the other thread.

Eh? I thought that they said in the new Cycling Strategy that they'd look at widening the Cable Street section.

I believe at one point it was even suggested that the road become a cycle-only road. But that seems to have gone by the wayside.

New smaller (26"?) wheel bozzer bikes to be built by Pashley.
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/revealed-new-lighter-and-comfier-santander-cycles-a3359731.html

IMO the design (still) needs a rear rack.

Only one thing for it when these hit the streets... race the Old type vs New type!

Tomorrow's Mail headline:

Lots of ex Boris bikes for sale next year ? Will anybody want one of these umm iconic symbols of London ?

I'd change the gearing and use one for work.

Daily Fail in anti-cycling shocker.

There'll be no bike lanes in the Daily Mail's Brexit dystopia.

Bit of a dredge, but I have disappointed with the Boris Bike/Santander Bike changes recently. The new pricing of £1.60 a go means you can't just hop on and off as you bimble about and the electric bikes seem to be relatively poor quality compared to the existing bikes or even the lime bikes (which are way more expensive to be fair). I like the Lime bike setup of a single high gear + the motor to get you going so you don't have to deal with the motor cutting out when changing gears.