London cycling Archives • Average Joe Cyclist https://averagejoecyclist.com/tag/london-cycling/ A Blog for Average People who LOVE to ride bikes! Tue, 01 Sep 2020 00:21:23 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.1 15693361 Should Motorists who Kill Cyclists go to Prison? https://averagejoecyclist.com/cyclists-killed-by-motorists/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:17:30 +0000 https://averagejoecyclist.com/?p=19298 Here’s a crash that happened when a driver decided to ignore (or simply was too careless to notice) the sign that says that cars cannot turn right (across the cycle lane) at this intersection. The cyclist was taken away in an ambulance, the motorist was somewhat inconveniencedA London lorry driver who carelessly killed 29-year-old cyclist Louise Wright in London has been convicted of causing her death by careless driving – but has walked away with a suspended sentence and assorted wrist slaps. Should he have gone to prison? The family doesn’t think so …

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]]> 19298 Safe Cycling in London https://averagejoecyclist.com/safe-cycling-london/ Fri, 23 Jan 2015 22:20:15 +0000 https://averagejoecyclist.com/?p=9178 Artist's impression of the proposed bike superhighways in LondonA while ago I wrote about the proposed new East-West and North-South Cycle Superhighways in London. The need for the cycle superhighways was highlighted again when a woman cyclist was “crushed” under a lorry at the busy Elephant and Castle circle. I hope that those new East-West and North-South Cycle Superhighways in London get built very soon, so we can stop reading about these awful accidents. We need to have safe cycling in London, just as we need to have safe cycling in all cities.

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]]> 9178 Bike Super Highways in London https://averagejoecyclist.com/bike-super-highways-london/ Tue, 18 Nov 2014 11:10:24 +0000 https://averagejoecyclist.com/?p=7164 Bike super-highways-safe-cycling-in-LondonThe CEO of Microsoft has come out in strong support of building safe cycling infrastructure – specifically, the proposed new East-West and North-South Cycle Superhighways in London. (Essentially, a pair of segregated bike lanes running through the center of London.) Microsoft employs 2,200 people in London alone. Microsoft CEO Michel Van Der Bel notes that […]

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