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Wednesday, 30 May 2018

The Scotsman

• Cycling with the elderly scheme to go Scotland-wide A Danish-inspired scheme to get elderly people out and about on people-carrying trishaws is to be extended across Scotland, it was announced today.

Times Online

• Mamils are a turn-off, says cycling supremo [Subscription]Cycling is being undermined by an image problem, with too many people perceiving it as the domain of white, middle-aged men, according to London’s cycling tsar.

Mail Online

• London transport chief apologises for ill-judged cycle lane expansion Mike Brown, the commissioner for Transport for London, apologised to motorists who have complained that a network of segregated cycle lanes (pictured) has made traffic even worse.

London Evening Standard

• London's cycling chief claims London cyclists are too white, male and middle class... but campaigners say the issue is infrastructure not diversityCampaigners in London have called on London's cycling chief to improve infrastructure - not diversity - after he claimed that the capital's cyclists are too white, male and middle-class.