Analysis by Tom Edwards, Transport correspondent<\/p>\n
If you have been on one of London’s bridges in rush hour you will have seen the thousands of commuters using bikes to get around. <\/p>\n
There are long queues to get off the bridges.<\/p>\n
So is London at the tipping point where cycling becomes normal?<\/p>\n
That is certainly what City Hall wants and the numbers certainly show more and more people are taking to two wheels.<\/p>\n
There seems to be a virtuous circle. Segregated bike lanes increase safety, which leads to more riders, which in turn makes cycling even safer. <\/p>\n
And if you know someone who cycles, it becomes much more normal for you to try it as well.<\/p>\n
Another interesting addition is the rise of the hire e-bikes like Lime. <\/p>\n
They seem to be targeting a younger Gen Z and Millennial generation which is also increasing the number of riders.<\/p>\n
Of course, there are still many issues about cycling in London, but for many it is simply just a clean, effective form of getting around in the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Analysis by Tom Edwards, Transport correspondent If you have been on one of London’s bridges in rush hour…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":307139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,784,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-307138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-cycling","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/307139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}