Le Nouvel Observateur publishes the letter of a Parisian fined €135 for cycling through a red light, (incidentally the same fine a motorist would have to pay). The problem is that the green lights for bicycles comes on at the same time as the green light for cars coming from an opposite direction. The writer, Yves Dambach, claims that this situation is not unique and partly explains the widespread disregard by cyclists for traffic lights in Paris. My advice: don’t pay the fine, and see [...]

… and not to learn from the Dutch how to provide a safe environment for pedestrians and cyclists. No. We need to send TfL to the International Criminal Court to be tried for Crimes against Humanity. Lorry drivers have been killing Londoners riding bicycles with chilling regularity, about one a month. Lorries have blind spots, we are told in this grotesque video: Now in most civilised nations, blind people are not allowed to drive; in most civilised nations if a train, a plane, a ship [...]

The winner of the Best Public Project category at the FX International Interior Design Awards is this Bicycle Surveillance Hut : In a category with some huge public projects, the Non-ument bicycle surveillance hut won the judges’ votes for its out-and-out wit. Designed as a security hut for a cycle park by the beach at Den Haag in the Netherlands, the hut fits into the landscape as a small but slightly bizarre object, a functional folly. Incorporating a WC, seating area and kitchen, the hut [...]