Chris Boardman did a brilliant piece about the Dutch attitude to cycling on this week’s ITV Cycling Show.
It’s only four minutes long, but definitely worth watching:
http://www.itv.com/tourdefrance/video-chris-boardman-on-the-dutch-love-affair-with-cycling
If only the streets of London could be like the streets of Utrecht, in the Netherlands, instead of the aggressive and often dangerous bunfight that currently exists.
It really is time to put people — cyclists and pedestrians — first, especially when it comes to road junction and street design. Yet our politicians and our traffic engineers and our town planners seem to fail to grasp that concept. Make them all cycle around London for a month and I’m sure things would change… for the better.
UPDATE: And just to highlight what I’m talking about, here’s just one example of the shocking lack of long-term thinking by the City of London Corporation. So much for putting safety first.
London Cycling Diary 