Cycle lanes installed are being ripped out again after paralysing cities and fuelling local uprising

Every day, more than 80,000 cars and lorries pass along the busy Marylebone Road, a major arterial trunk road that has run into and out of the Home Counties since the 18th century. It travels past major landmarks including The Regent’s Park and Madame Tussauds before becoming Euston Road and ending at King’s Cross in … Read more

Grant Shapps admits too many new cycle lanes are ‘unused’

Grant Shapps has hit out at ‘unused’ cycle lanes clogging up traffic – blaming some town halls for misusing special funds for ‘green’ transport. The Transport Secretary declared he was ‘not prepared to tolerate’ badly designed road closures that led to traffic being ‘backed up’.  He also vented his fury at new cycle lanes that … Read more

Two chemicals in Earth’s ‘primordial soup’ created the first ever Krebs cycle

Metabolism is a key process in living things that enables fuel to be turned into energy, but its evolutionary origin is a long-standing enigma.   Now, a study by US researchers has found a simple reaction between two chemicals, called glyoxylate and pyruvate, in Earth’s primordial soup billions of years ago may have led to the … Read more

Niall Horan enjoys energetic cycle in London on his £7,499 BMC road bike

He revealed in August that he was wearing a medical boot after snapping the ligaments in his foot during a boozy night out.  Yet Niall Horan appeared to have made a speedy recovery from his painful injury as he enjoyed an energetic cycle in London on Friday. The One Direction star, 27, appeared in good spirits as he … Read more

CHRISTOPHER BIGGINS: Mayor, your cycle lanes are killing my London

Maybe it’s because I’m a Londoner but I love whizzing around London town. Get me behind the wheel of my (fully electric) car and – toot toot! – I’m practically Mr Toad. I gaze through the windscreen with a huge smile on my face as I whir through the city. I adore every chimney pot … Read more

University of Chicago will only take graduates interested in Black studies for next admissions cycle

University of Chicago’s English Department declares it will only accept applicants interested in working ‘in and with Black studies’ for its next graduate admissions cycle University of Chicago announced in July they’ll only accept students interested in working in and with Black studies  English as a subject, the department says, has provided ‘aesthetic rationalizations for … Read more

Fury as pop-up cycle lanes set up in £33m London scheme lie empty

Pop-up cycle lanes set up as part a £225million plan to get Britain moving again are lying empty while traffic is squeezing onto narrowed streets, bringing the capital to a halt, it can be revealed. MailOnline visited some of the key cycle lanes across the country at the height of the rush hour to gauge … Read more

Fury as FIRE ENGINE gets stuck in new cycle lane put in as part of Covid-friendly traffic measures

Footage has emerged of a fire engine becoming stuck in a road block, put in place to create a ‘Covid friendly’ cycle lanes, as furious residents up and down the country continue to rage against similar schemes – dubbed a ‘war on motorists’. The video shows the blue-lit emergency vehicle wedged between a wooden planter … Read more

Outraged residents whose street was turned into cycle lane stunned after protest signs removed

Fuming residents whose street was blocked off so it could be turned into a two-lane bike path have been left stunned after signs they put up in protest were removed  by ‘jobsworth’ council officials – who feared they could injure cyclists. The wood boards were put up by disgruntled locals in Poole, Dorset, after their entire … Read more

Driver infuriated by ‘s****y cycle lane’ knocks down bollards – but wrecks his wing mirror

‘Incredible’ video shows driver infuriated by ‘another s****y bike lane’ mowing down the bollards that mark it out – but he wrecks his OWN wing mirror doing it Expletive-laden clip, shared by broadcaster Jeremy Vine, shows motorist’s fury at bollards marking out a cycle lane – as he proceeds to mow them down  Angry driver, … Read more