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I spotted this rather less elegant box in South London. I assume it is something to do with electricity (it is marked BTH - British Thompson Houston?). It's main purpose now seems to be to tell people to clean up after their dogs! https://www.google.com/maps/@51.4081191,-0.1251353,55m/data=!3m1!1e3 ...

I've heard it suggested that vaccinating the first 7% of the population might prevent 70% of the deaths. That seems plausible. This simple analysis by the covid-19 actuaries group would seem to support that: https://c8930375-0dbb-4319-ae2f-025f70d4b441.filesusr.com/ugd/ab45f7_a40832c6069842e6af33fc...

I think the initial aim of the vaccination programme is not to achieve herd immunity, but to reduce severe cases and deaths in those most at risk. 25 million people vaccinated would go a long way to achieving this.

Thanks Bob, much appreciated. Local knowledge on the traffic and hills is very useful. We may attempt it tomorrow.
Will also have a closer look at ncr21.

Hi,

I've been looking for family friendly circular routes and wondered if anyone had ridden this route (Yew Tree Way) https://www.walkandcycle.co.uk/trail?trailcode=SURRTR0059.

Or any suggestions for other family friendly routes in this area (east Surrey)?

Thanks,

Tom

Where is the bike parked for the delivery - on the pavement? Interesting that Sainsbury's think they can offer a quicker delivery service by bike than van. For our delivery they parked in the road right outside. In a van they might have been halfway down the street given all the cars parked on both...

Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but thought it might be of interest that Sainsburys are now trialling the use of electric cargo bikes for deliveries in place of their usual vans. Pretty small scale at the moment, I only knew about it as our shopping turned up by bike this week. https://www.about.s...

Sorry, can't help with the tfl journey planner, it doesn't seem to work for me either. I've just tried a journey I know could be done by taking a bike on one train and it suggests cycling most of the way and then getting on the tube. You should be able to take a bike on the circle line provided it i...

You could also look at the kids Vitus bikes (only sold by Wiggle I think). They are a fair bit cheaper than isla/frog, although as others gave said those brands hold their resale value we'll. We have a Vitus twenty and it seems to be a good little bike.

Does anyone know if this only applies to the FlexPlus Worldwide insurance and not the FlexAccount European travel cover?
I've looked on the Nationwide website and can't see any mention of changes to the latter.

I'd agree about the danger of extrapolating this to other types of accident - the study only considered 3 specific cases out of 86 with available data and it's not clear to me why they chose those 3.

If you do want to head east from Lyme Regis (as suggested above) then you could utilise parts of this
http://en.tourdemanche.com/

Tom

I've got a 2015 Claris version of the grade and have had no problems with the wheels in a year or so of commuting on rubbish South London roads and gravel tracks.
I'm not sure if/how the wheels may differ by year/model though.

Tom

I'm guessing that it just cuts the corner in n attempt to either remove the need to first join the main road, or to prevent left hooking I've not seen the cycle lane but know the road and would imagine the intention was the former - to allow cyclists to exit the station and head towards the village...

I cross Vauxhall bridge every day and do use the new bike line, but I'm coming from where the green arrows are in the first image TonyR posted and want to turn right at the north end of the bridge so would much rather use the crossing then have to navigate the 3 lanes of traffic as I cross the bridg...