Thinking Bike

Too much of our cycle network finishes abruptly, often for no obvious reason, even in such as this one in Cambridgeshire.   

There are far too many "CYCLISTS DISMOUNT" signs.

     Drivers are not ordered to get out of their vehicles at road junctions or level-crossings, so why should cyclists have to dismount?

Cycling the ‘wrong way’ up a one-way street is generally very much frowned upon in the UK, yet that is extremely common practice in many Continental countries.

Einbahnstrasse = one-way street. 

 We could well have more one-way streets here, and make them two-way for cyclists; why not?

Some areas of this country are worse than others, but we do not have anything like enough provision for safe cycling, nor do we have enough good links between villages, or linking towns to villages.

But people here don’t ‘Think Bike’ , because if they did, then situations like this just would not happen:-

Cycle stands outside the Co-op in Kennington hidden by plants.

Vehicles standing on an Advanced-Stop Line in London.