Riding the UK's Cycle Network with Laura Laker

Riding the UK's Cycle Network with Laura Laker

Author: The War on Cars, LLC March 11, 2025 Duration: 49:09

Laura Laker is a London-based freelance journalist who specializes in writing about cycling and urban transport. We talked with her about the year she spent riding around Britain on the United Kingdom's 13,000-mile National Cycle Network—an enlightening and often hilarious odyssey that she documents in her first book, Potholes and Pavements: A Bumpy Ride on Britain's National Cycle Network. We also got into her work in formulating and promoting the UK's first Road Collision Reporting Guidelines, which detail best practices for the media and planning professionals to talk about road crashes and their prevention.

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This episode was edited by Ali Lemer. It was recorded by Josh Wilcox at the Brooklyn Podcasting Studio. Our theme music is by Nathaniel Goodyear. Transcriptions are by Russell Gragg. 

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