Cycle campaigner proposes 'London Drive to Work Day'

I love this idea. Absolutely brilliant. I hope it works there, and I am going to try and bring it to my city too!

could we make it a week please?

I'd join in the drive to work day, or as others have called it (and it sounds better) critical gas day. If people were to really get behind this idea and have a badge/flag to show others what their doing it would bring it in to context for a lot of drivers that could cycle. Now all I need is 1, a car 2, someone to teach me how to drive 3, someone to pay for it

Like it or not, the presence of the media, and the rate at which cycling is increasing makes London important for the rest of us. It drives perceptions outside the capital, as well as informing much of the stuff that ends up as national policy. If London can't get cycling right, sadly the rest of us have sod all chance.

I ride mostly in Crewe/Manchester, but I think events in London are important to the rest of us.

I live and commute in Northern Ireland - search for articles about that - I'll wait.. still waiting...

Anyway after a brief overnight to the capital last month for the first time in 30 years I was excited to see how many people commute, people on all sorts of bikes incl Boris's - and so do want to hear about things in London and other places. The same principles filter down to most of us in some way or another eventually - we just have less incidents regarding cyclists here thank God.

So keep up the good work and interesting articles.

Ps, got the coach from central london to gatwick at rush hour - despite downhill mountain biking for years I still wouldn't have the nerve to commute on my bike, it was frightening - you have my every respect - safe journeys to you all

Actually, I live in London but I'm moving out in the near future so I'm not actually sure whether to support this or not.

A good idea, if done on a decent scale would gridlock the capital.

London's traffic is already balanced on a knife edge. A while ago I cycled home from the City to Brixton past stationary traffic the whole way. I though there had been an accident. But talking to a friend who works for TfL Surface Transport, they hadn't been able to switch the traffic lights from the afternoon setting to evening rush hour. This alone caused most of inner London to be gridlocked.

Is it me or did someone just remove one of the three "actuallys" in the first two sentences of the article?

Is this page going for the world record for Most Usages of "Actually" on a Web Page?

Hurrah! Another London based story. I like reading articles about where I am. It's good to know that a cycling website covers stories concerning the capital and the many cyclists who live here.

Actually, thinking about it, I like reading articles about commuting in London as it makes me feel glad that I don't live there!

Ah but Dave - what do you write about my small village outside Huddersfield?

Nowt, I'll bet.

Since when have bus users been arrogant?

give every cyclist a little flag with a bike on it to stick on their car on critical gas day. that way everyone will be able to see the extra traffic...

Hurrah! Another London based story....

I love hearing all about some place where I'm actually not. Do keep it up.

Drive to work day or may become Critical Gas Day!

Love it! I'll hire a limo.

Good idea - though I commute out of London and not into it these days. I remember taking 1 1/2 hours once to do a 10 mile trip I could do across London on my bike in 40 minutes. More cars will jam the roads solid, not my idea of fun.

Put simply you couldn't pay me enough
I used to have to drive in London as part of my job as a computer engineer and despised it. It once took me over an hour to get from Oxford Circus to Trafalgar Square because of "badly phasing traffic lights" at Haymarket....In the same time on my bike I could cover at least 15 miles I reckon!

If it does go ahead great, I imagine it'll be similar scenes to when the tube strike was on, MASSIVE queues! The only difference there was some people did the sensible thing and swapped 4 wheels for 2

I have fully loved this idea since it began to be banded about on cycle forums about 6-8 years ago. There are an estimated 13 million regular UK cyclists (eg ride more than twice a week, many commute too) so it would be interesting to see the effect.

Perhaps cyclists could identify themselves with a bumper sticker "My other car is actually a bike" or some such?

Even if you dont drive the extra strain on public transport would surely show the benefit of cycling upon modern society.

What if you don't have (or want) access to a car, like a sizeable minority of Londoners? Walk down the roads?