Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner but I love whizzing around London town. Get me behind the wheel of my (fully electric) car and – toot toot! – I’m practically Mr Toad. I gaze through the windscreen with a huge smile on my face as I whir through the city. I adore every chimney pot … Read more
Pop-up cycle lanes set up as part a £225million plan to get Britain moving again are lying empty while traffic is squeezing onto narrowed streets, bringing the capital to a halt, it can be revealed. MailOnline visited some of the key cycle lanes across the country at the height of the rush hour to gauge … Read more
Footage has emerged of a fire engine becoming stuck in a road block, put in place to create a ‘Covid friendly’ cycle lanes, as furious residents up and down the country continue to rage against similar schemes – dubbed a ‘war on motorists’. The video shows the blue-lit emergency vehicle wedged between a wooden planter … Read more
Footage has emerged of a fire engine becoming stuck in a road block, put in place to create a ‘Covid friendly’ cycle lanes, as furious residents up and down the country continue to rage against similar schemes – dubbed a ‘war on motorists’. The video shows the blue-lit emergency vehicle wedged between a wooden planter … Read more
Berlin’s administrative court has ordered the city’s left-wing officials to remove cycle lanes that have been installed throughout the city during the pandemic. The court ruled that Covid-19 was unfairly used by officials as an excuse to push through their ‘traffic agenda’. Germany’s Alternative for Germany (AfD) party filed an urgent motion which argued that the … Read more
Fuming residents whose street was blocked off so it could be turned into a two-lane bike path have been left stunned after signs they put up in protest were removed by ‘jobsworth’ council officials – who feared they could injure cyclists. The wood boards were put up by disgruntled locals in Poole, Dorset, after their entire … Read more
For many kids, school is not only a place of learning but a centre of stability, offering support to those who face testing circumstances at home The Shapps household is like millions of others preparing for the start of the school autumn term. New clothes, new books and a new year – a flurry of … Read more
Roads narrowed so that pavements can be widened. Streets reduced from two lanes to one. Extra cycle lanes. Town-centre parking spaces suspended. Major diversions. Under the guise of protecting us from Covid, councils all across the country have introduced a host of tough restrictions on motorists. Of course, everything necessary must be done to prevent … Read more
Roads narrowed so that pavements can be widened. Streets reduced from two lanes to one. Extra cycle lanes. Town-centre parking spaces suspended. Major diversions. Under the guise of protecting us from Covid, councils all across the country have introduced a host of tough restrictions on motorists. Of course, everything necessary must be done to prevent … Read more
Struggling London cabbies slam ‘lunatic’ Sadiq Khan after pop-up cycle lanes and wider ‘social-distancing’ pavements spark traffic chaos Sadiq Khan has introduced 11 miles of new, pop-up cycle lanes in the capital Cab drivers claim roads are gridlocked and it has caused havoc for their trade A further 12 miles of cycle lanes and wider … Read more