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Thursday, 28 May 2015

BBC News

• Lawyers warn of cyclists' tram riskLawyers representing cyclists injured on Edinburgh's tram tracks have warned the city council it must take action to prevent a fatality.

London Evening Standard

• Ramping up: how the new Alphabeta office building and 8 St James’s Square are redefining the workplace Cycling into work takes on new meaning at the Alphabeta office building. When it opens next month workers will be able to ride their bikes straight inside the building down a narrow cycle ramp. Inside is a massive atrium whose cliffs of projecting glass boxes evoke the morphing cityscape of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster Inception. At the atrium’s foot there’s a place to grab a flat white on the way up to the office.
• Prudential RideLondon: 70,000 cyclists to ride along car-free streets Record numbers of Londoners will take to the streets on two wheels as organisers of the capital’s largest cycling event today announced that it will be bigger than ever.

Other Regional Press

• wbchris published Mother's fury after daughter struck by hit-and-run cyclistA SCHOOLGIRL was left nursing a broken wrist after she was violently struck by a cyclist who had mounted the pavement in Redruth.Nine-year-old Ashleigh-Joan Fearn Jones was walking to Treloweth School on Thursday morning with her older brother Caiden when the cyclist hit her before remounting his bike and cycling off.Ashleigh-Joan's furious mother Becky has slammed the cyclist calling him "irresponsible"."Ashleigh-Joan, Caiden and another friend were walking to school when they...
• Call for action after cycle lane gets blocked by delivery vans lorries SUPERMARKET chain Sainsbury’s has been accused of making a revamped roundabout in Oxford a danger for cyclists.

Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport

• WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff and Department for Transport looking for your highway cycle solution recommendations WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff, on behalf of the Department for Transport, is compiling a set of Case Studies that exemplify high quality cycle infrastructure in the UK and the processes used to achieve it. The company is calling for your recommendations on highway cycle solutions that the DfT could publish within this set of Case Studies. These Case Studies will be published on the forthcoming DfT Cycle Proofing Working Group website. They are particularly interested in your suggestions of good cycle infrastructure schemes and of the process taken to achieve them and these should be focussed on h...
• Cycle City : Active City – member discount!25-26 June 2015, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Utility cycling – for work, shopping and other everyday trips – is on the up in Britain, and not just in London.  The original £94m Cycle Ambition Grant launched in 2013 has received match-funding to take it to almost £200m. This has now been extended, with a further £114m announced at the end of 2014.   Cycle City : Active City is the UK’s annual gathering of cycling expertise.  Delegates at this event will: Learn how schemes from around the world are getting more people to cycle and walk for everyda...