Your spot on! Boris is the guy that is really making the most changes. The cycle lanes, bike scheme - London really is getting geared up (excuse the pun!) for cycling. Lets hope this spreads across the nation. Certainly here in Bristol its a bicycle rush hour at times- its great!
Sad though that Ken Livingstone isn't getting any of the credit. It was Ken who produced budgets of up to £50 millions per annum in London for cycling, over 8 years producing our network of cyclepaths, bike racks and shelters all over London. In addition was the range of 19 free maps of London's cycle routes in all libraries and many other outlets.
The cycling Superhighways were Ken's idea, as was the bike hire scheme, both to be introduced by him if he won the last mayoral election, Boris just taking them over and now getting the credit. How many now praising him for these are aware that immediately after his election he
cut the London Cycling budget by £20 millions per annum? Obviously very few.
And it was Ken who introduced the Congestion Charge against huge opposition that has doubled the incidence of Cycling in London.
None of what I've said above is political sour grapes since I've mainly been a Tory voter throughout my life. I'm just giving credit where it's really due and putting the record straight.
The credit due to Boris as a cyclist is in continuing with the Ken Livingstone schemes and resisting the temptation to scrap them, which would have been politically expedient.
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Have our politicians heard of e-bikes?
