Safer Cycling

Safer Cycling is a major Evening Standard campaign aimed at encouraging Londoners to take to two wheels.

We have pressed for better cycle facilities - and said how extra funding should be spent. We have also called for trucks to be fitted with extra safety mirrors to prevent accidents as part of our 12-point Safer Cycling charter.

As well as examining the causes of cycle accidents we have shown how families can take extra training, helped achieve important changes to improve cycle safety in the new Highway Code and highlighted the lack of secure parking facilities at key places such as train and Tube stations.

We have campaigned on the dangers of motorists ignoring cycle lanes and advanced stop lines at traffic lights - and suggested solutions - as well as called for better cycle-bus-rail co-ordination.

The Standard has also called for a new, mass bike rental system similar to that in Paris and highlighted ways to deter cycle theft.

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