Live blog: Video - cat fires bow and arrow while cycling, London Assembly Member wants motorcyclists to be allowed on Cycle Superhighways + more

So if he's suggesting that motorcyclists use the cycle lanes at less busy times of day, then surely the 'normal' lanes will also be less busy, so motorcyclists will be in less danger anyway.

Have I missed something here?

“improve safety for motorcycles if they could use Cycle Superhighways at less busy times of the day outside rush hours, when there are hardly any bicycles on them, and they lie dormant and empty.”

Dormant and empty; just like his head.  Who could have imagined a UKIPer being uninformed, ignorant and stupid?

As someone who rides bikes both motorised and not, that is a monumentaly stupid idea. How about opening all the bus lanes to motorbikes. That will help much more than having some prat on a 1200GS mixing with cyclists. Those lanes are designed for bicycles and as such would be totaly unsutable to motorbikes, as anyone who has been anywhere near a diliveroo rider will atest.

As it happens, motorcyclists can already use much of the cycle superhighways in London due to their poor design.

Where it is just blue paint on the road, it has no legal standing, as described by the copper in the tragic case of Brian Dorling. He summarised that they were nothing more than a “blue strip of paint”: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/mother-watches-in-horror-as-cctv-...

Driving on the cycle superhighways only contrevenes road rules when there is an unbroken line dividing the road and the carriageway - where it forms a 'compulsary' cycle lane. It is also legal to drive on cycle lanes where your path is obstructed if they are made up of a broken line*.

But it's not like Kurten to not know his stuff is it..?

*I'm sure someone with greater technical knowledge and a zeal for pedantry will pull me up on this, but I've described some of the essence of faults that the cycle lanes have.

Box Hill one way?

Downhill I hope! Who needs all that huffing and puffing and nasty uphill pedalling on a bank holiday!