Laura Laker

Caught one fnal glimpse of Oxford Street's last day as a tragic thoroughfare yesterday Overheard one person saying she'd rather walk the underground tunnels than on street level there. It'll be great to see people's reactions to it without the vehicles

Traffic! Not tragic 😂

Online marketplaces are enabling the purchase of dangerous and illegal products @marksuttonbike.bsky.social has done some characterisically excellent work this week highlighting the problem & offering advice www.cyclingelectric.com/in-depth/buy...

The second annual Mûr de Ned was a fabulous affair once more. @nedboulting.bsky.social officiated walking, running and cycling participants, and one 'health and safety official' whose inspection ascent won him the whimsy category

A curious incident in the Greenwich foot tunnel y'day. Chap riding a Lime bike passing a group of walkers, and when someone said 'no cycling', he said he worked for Lime, so it was OK. Both lifts were broken so the Limes were all stuck down there. His job: parking them in a long line by the lifts

I think there needs to be a better solution for hire bikes in those tunnels, and for goodness sake, can't someone sort out those lifts? If this goes on much longer it'll be end-to-end Lime bikes, then there really won't be room for cycling, or walking

A curious incident in the Greenwich foot tunnel y'day. Chap riding a Lime bike passing a group of walkers, and when someone said 'no cycling', he said he worked for Lime, so it was OK. Both lifts were broken so the Limes were all stuck down there. His job: parking them in a long line by the lifts

In the meantime, sending someone to double park them by the lifts seems to be Lime's solution, as seen in Evan Erdinger's recent video on the Greenwich foot tunnel - where he remarked at the 'most orderly Lime bike graveyard I've ever seen' (13:18). That'll be why www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYIK...

A curious incident in the Greenwich foot tunnel y'day. Chap riding a Lime bike passing a group of walkers, and when someone said 'no cycling', he said he worked for Lime, so it was OK. Both lifts were broken so the Limes were all stuck down there. His job: parking them in a long line by the lifts

‘Ohh wow. They look like designated cycle lanes separate to the roads?’ Notes from Utrecht. lauralaker.substack.com/p/on-the-bik...

I was in Utrecht for the annual Velo City conference last week and got to cycle slowly around the world's largest bike parking garage beneath the Centraal station. Room for 12,500 bikes and the first 24h of parking is free

While long-term funding is key to the National Cycle Network's success, £104m over four years is £26m a year... the equivalent of upgrading a single A-road junction. CWIS3, the government's four-year strategy mentioned '7,000 additional or improved [NCN] miles by 2030'...so £14,857 per mile?

And here's what else you get for £25m, which National Highways' route manager describes as "not a lot of money for this type of engineering" - though it does have a 'segregated footway/cycleway' on one corner www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/2614939...

While long-term funding is key to the National Cycle Network's success, £104m over four years is £26m a year... the equivalent of upgrading a single A-road junction. CWIS3, the government's four-year strategy mentioned '7,000 additional or improved [NCN] miles by 2030'...so £14,857 per mile?

I'm not convinced this is the first long-term funding ever for the NCN... I've certainly heard this phrase before. There was long-term announced in the early 2020s, under Boris Johnson's government, but subsequent years were then slashed, which I guess counts that one out

I know you're dying to know... yes the 210l water butt is almost full again after a little rain here in London. Going to give the garden a good soaking before the next rainfall, coming soon

I spammed my Substack followers with four audio interviews from my rural path campaigners' toolkit. Hear from the horses' mouths how you get a traffic-free greenway built where you live! More will follow, after a respectful interval...

We talk to Richard Ackroyd (from my book) about Frome's 20-year campaign to connect just three miles of route that will link to a traffic-free path going all the way to Bath. After a new mile last year, on the pictured stretch, there's just one mile to go lauralaker.substack.com/p/fromes-mis...

I spammed my Substack followers with four audio interviews from my rural path campaigners' toolkit. Hear from the horses' mouths how you get a traffic-free greenway built where you live! More will follow, after a respectful interval...

First up, path pioneer Caroline Levett, pictured, on 20 years of building traffic-free routes, with volunteers lauralaker.substack.com/p/path-pione...