“Currently yes. It's a quicker option than walk/train/train/bus/walk. The bus gets delayed due to roadworks. There's more than a 10 min wait between trains.

The present cold weather is playing havoc with my nostrils. I find it uncomfortable to ride with a face mask. While it's cold, I'm going to try walking a third of the distance, a bus, train then walk again. It may not be quicker, but might be warmer.

All london's public transport carry folding bikes. Some accept full-size bikes. More at:http://tinyurl.com/yfs6lsp”

“"Do you use a bicycle as your main daily transport Anil?"

Probably not unless TfL allow him to take it on the tube !”

“Do you use a bicycle as your main daily transport Anil?”

“Bicycles are simply irrelevant to their daily lives."

In my experience, only to those who are overweight, lazy or tend to walk 2 metres from home to car then car to somewhere else.”

“I think we already have good evidence on how dangerous an idea this is seeing as there is an identical "tiny cycle path" about 5 metres away. There is another a further 100 metres away by Queens Square. Both of these are on busy pavements. Has anyone died or been seriously injured while using that one?

The point the anti cyclist lobby miss is that if a cyclist hits a pedestrian they will almost certainly fall off and injure themselves possibly much WORSE than the pedestrian. This provides strong incentive not to hit them.”

“I would like to just reiterate that the statistics I quoted were also official DfT figures, quoted in Hansard and thus also not "something cobbled together over a lentil stew by a tiny group of beardy yoghurt knitting fundamentalists."

I'm taking the liberty of assuming that Parliament was not being described thus in this instance.”

“2% is the national average for journeys taken. If you check the 2006 Joint Local Transport Plan you'll find significantly higher figures, e.g. up to 11% for commuting in inner Bristol. In any case, you build infrastructure to support your objectives and, like it or not (and the majority like it), encouraging cycling is both a national and local objective.”

“The Times has launched a "Cities Fit for Cycling" campaign:
http://tinyurl.com/7gtaefh

One of its manifesto points is "Two per cent of the Highways Agency budget should be earmarked for next generation cycle routes, providing £100 million a year towards world-class cycling infrastructure. Each year cities should be graded on the quality of cycling provision."

Malcolm, as you're fond of reminding us, we're "only 2%". Surely 2% of the Highways Agency budget (and local highway authority, too, I would argue) is only fair and equitable then? Because that would be a *massive* leap from the paltry amount that is spent at the moment, and could make a real difference to the safety, quality and completeness of cycling infrastructure, if it's spent well and best practice from the Netherlands is followed.”

“Cycling will solve a host of urban problems. In order to achieve mass cycling, you design for the many who would cycle (but who find it too intimidating currently) over (but not ignoring) the hardy 2% who cycle already.”

“No Vikingx, official Department of Transport statistic. Not something cobbled together over a lentil stew by a tiny group of beardy yoghurt knitting fundamentalists.”