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Monday, 01 June 2020

Times Online

• Here’s how No 10 can get more of us on our bikes [subscription]While public transport use has dropped by more than 90 per cent since lockdown began, and car journeys by 60 per cent, cycling has risen. Last month there were a record 170,000 extra bicycle trips in Greater Manchester in just one day

City AM

• TfL urges Londoners to walk and cycle as schools reopenTfL has urged people to consider alternatives to using public transport as schools start to gradually reopen from Monday.

Other Regional Press

• Oxford University calls for swift action on temporary cycling plans for lifting lockdownONE of the most senior figures at Oxford University has called for swift action to be taken to make roads around the city ready for bikes, as he prepares for 5,000 of his workers to return.

EIN News Subscription

• How lockdown converted the world to cycling, and the speedbumps that lie ahead“ARE SALES up?” asks Enrico Lepore in disbelief. “Did you see the queue outside the door?” Mr Lepore, co-owner of ProBike, a shop in a Florence suburb, estimates that his turnover is almost twice as high as at the same time last year. At least he still has bikes to sell. A shop down the road ran out of stock long ago.