Cycling Embassy of Great Britain

With every year that passes, the number of bike weeks and months, to work or for any other purpose seems to proliferate - including even protected b

The polling stations have closed, the last tweets sent and the votes have been counted - did you 'vote bike'? And now that the results are in - what do they mean?

With the last few days of the election campaign looming, it's no surprise that attempts to marshall the cycling vote have dominated the week.

It seemed this week that the mantra 'build it and they will come' got a bit of a codicil - 'once it forms a decent network' - certainly Auckland seems to be experiencing network effect as disjointed bits of infastructure start to connect up, as is San Francisco and so might be New York if only the authorities got round to releasi

OK, so maybe that's an exaggeration, but it's true that we seem to stand at a crossroads here in the UK, between business as usual or a genuine transformation of our streets for the better.

Ah, the beginning of April, where any blog-rounder-upper has to tread warily for fear of being caught by the all too plausible spoof - or dismissing a true story for fear it's too far-fetched.

This is a guest post from Tom Gatehouse, who lives and works in London. You can contact him at tkgatehouse@outlook.com