Lidgate Butchers

.London’s Cycling Commissioner, @willnorman, is claiming he’s making London’s streets safer for cycling. His own data clearly shows that is untrue. The number of seriously injured cyclists is at record levels and trending up. It is the highest June figure for a decade. 2026 on this chart is 6 months data. AND he knows all this!

The @MayorofLondon and @Willnorman ran a huge PR exercise to persuade us their first Vision Zero road safety plan was a great success. The opposite is true.

Last September I asked the @MayorofLondon how blind people should get around with floating bus stops excluding them from using the bus. They can not cycle or drive. He just wrote back and told me it was for “people on cycles to follow the rules of the road”.

Here’s how its going for the four main casualty modes: walk, cycle, motorcycle and car. 2/3

So @TfL and @willnorman had a “Vision Zero Action Plan”conference. Were the failings and reasons the last plan was abandoned given, i.e. they made no progress in a decade and miles off target?

So ministers assured Lords & MPs that they would be consulting with a statutory panel of disability experts regarding floating bus stops. But, it turns out they already knew the experts were against them and had ignored them already. Parliament was misled! telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07…

.@willnorman’s line now is they have “much more to do”. Since he became London’s Cycling Commissioner and started doing things, the number of serious cyclist injuries has increased by 75%. The rate of serious injury per journey is trending up.

Here again, the most vulnerable road users, blind people, having to plead with @10DowningStreet to reverse the disastrous programme of floating bus stops that exclude them from their local bus services and an independent life. @RNIB_campaigns @guidedogs

This is @willnorman’s own chart for killed and serious cyclist injuries, 2017 to 2025. They show an eye watering 75% increase since he became cycling commissioner! He says there is more to do!