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Thursday, 01 October 2015

The Guardian

• Leave class out of the London cycling debateWhatever you think about the capital’s cycle provision, jibes about ‘City boys’ or the middle class are a silly diversion from the real problemsI’d like to propose an amendment to Godwin’s law, the notion that decrees whoever compares an opponent to the Nazis in an online discussion has lost the argument.My variant would be this: if you’re debating cycle infrastructure and you use “middle classâ€� in a pejorative sense, the internet automatically deletes your last day’s typed output. Continue reading...

London Evening Standard

• Boris bike users could pay more at peak timesUsers of pay-as-you-go Boris bikes face being charged based on demand for the time of day and the location they want to hire from, documents reveal.