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Routes from Bow to Aldgate and Wandsworth to Westminster officially open today.

As SE1 reported a very nasty collision between a lorry and a cyclist near London Bridge, the Mayor was launching a new initiative to improve cycling safety. Encouraging uptake of cycle training is one aspect, but there’s also a new campaign to raise awareness of …

By Jason Webber via the Londonist Flickrpool So how’s it going out there? At the prime commuter time of 8.30am we Twitter searched for ‘tube strike’ to find out. And, besides a revival of interest in the London Underground Song, there are naturally grumbletweets: TitanUK …

106. The Spooker of Hammersmith Many phantom assailants have been mentioned in my weekly column over the last year or so, and so we come to another obscure London legend – that of the Hammersmith ‘monster’. A few decades previous to Spring-Heeled Jack leaping his …

Save the kittens! Image courtesy of mappamundi from the Londonist Flickr pool We all either do it, know someone how does it or have watched someone do it. We’re talking about cyclists running red lights, of course. It’s a controversial subject, and The Times claims …

Boris cycling to work, his unruly hair squashed under a precariously-balanced helmet, was one of the images of last year’s mayoral election campaign. And now the self-confessed ‘peddler of pedal power’ is launching his much-trumpeted cycle-hire scheme across the zone one area. The proposed scheme …

This morning every Londoner was extolled to get on their bike. Mayor Boris launched a Summer Cycling campaign, which involved having his picture taken with, er, lots of bikes. He revealed research from Transport for London that showed that while 1 in 3 of us …