Approaching Bank junction on a bike Hard work on a bike when you've got taxis scraping past you It's been an awfully long time coming but after two years of back and forth, the City of London has approved a new strategy for the area around Bank junction . Bank is the meeting point of six major roads. In the mornings it is rammed with people caged into cattle pens trying to cross the road. It is a...

Travel to work changes in Westminster. Source City of Westminster Last week, Westminster Council published the first draft of its new cycling strategy 2013 - 2026 . It’s a strategy that is trying very hard to get things right but is severely compromised by some highly contradictory recommendations and some subjective opinion that is presented as fact. Firstly, the good stuff: The Council’s...

Testing the new Dutch-style roundabout at the TRL facility Yesterday, Transport for London lifted the lid on test facilities that were built late last year at the Transport Research Laboratory in Bracknell. Pictured above, TRL's first test roundabout. You can read a useful review on the BBC London website. You'll notice the design is very very Dutch, even the give way symbols on the carriageway.