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The London ststs in the report are linked to a summit called by City Police because they were seriously worried (and not happy) about the number of cyclists they were having to removed from under the wheels of 2 particular types of HGV - skip trucks (which are one of the few types not fitted with li...

Mine was one beautiful day when a group went 'round the loch' comfortably in 6 hours (riding up Glen Doe 1 in 4) - avoided Foyers because someone had set the trees on fire but everyone was clocking 35-40mph down to Whitebridge. Since all was running so well I added a loop via Farr and Tomatin and ca...

Been there (Gower Street) done it (73 - old RM type Stoke Newington-Victoria) and had Brompton folded & in pram box by the time conductor cam down the stairs. He was impressed....

Ah so it's still the same guy at Thurso then.... Do all get writing about these very incidents to your MP (as a response to Keep Cycling on Track) and Passenger Focus http://www.passengerfocus.org.uk One tip - think a bit about the booking you are making. One person booking from Lockerbie to Penzanc...

An astute observation and one which should help in delivering the sort of coverage we find in the US. Basically if we go for bus bridging (like the A74 between Carlisle and Gretna or crossing the Severn Bridge) the bus operators will be pressed to assist with policing and cycling safety, and for som...

First a catch-up with post 2 & 3 - then what I was going to post Leo Markham - and Alan Kreppel, have in the past few years done quite a bit for bike on bus services. It was Alan as MD of SWT (now First Cymru) saw an opportunity to use the open space on their service between Swansea and Cardiff ...

I'm getting reports that some booking offices are saying there is a 24 hour advance limit on accepting cycle bookings. This should not be the case, but we also note tha for some Midlands members the Central Trains BO will not book bikes and this forces them to trek to Birmingham NS or International ...

The CTC Rail Campaign has an offer for a media opportunity with Andrew George MP the local MP for Penzance, and it would be uesful to know if any small parties are likely to arrive - by rail of course - at a suitable time/date to coincide with any photocall and be bona fide tourists doing the big ri...

The limited speed for buses is 80 Kph (56 mph) so you are exaggerating somewhat! Epsom Coaches run a TfL service entirely within a 30mph urban area - using the electronic engine management system they limit these buses to 29mph - their bash & dent bill is considerably reduced - as uis driver str...

The HSE reviewed the workplace incidents which happened when the workplace was the road - a third of KSI crashes involve someone driving at work, and a tenth of workplace KSI incidents involve use of the road. At work, driving, walking between offices and cycling are more dangerous tha bing in the o...

One report that these high flying supermarket people obviously haven't read is that reviewing shoppers at supermarkets in a Swiss town. Taking a standard pedestrian shopping load as 2 carrier bags full, only 25% of those shopping by car purchased more than this (ie a load for which use of a car migh...

Third Crank is right on this one (but not level crossings) By law buses (or Public Service Vehicles have many features and rules for operating which are not imposed on the humble motorist. Bus drivers have - since the invention of mobile phones, and ot any recent law been prohibited from using mobil...

I've replied in detail to Chris, but we are at present dealing with a near identical fall, fortunately with less serious outcome. However in researching the incident we found that the Railways Inspectorate had no record of any potentially dangerous incidents at any of the 4 level crossings on this 1...