In the week after The Tour de France hits London and literally millions of people come out on the streets, this sign appears on the railings of Golden Square where I work.
One of Mayor Ken Livingstone’s main reasons for getting the Tour to start in London was to pursue his encouragement for more people to cycle to work.
Adrian, who took the photo, cycles in every day, and like many others, has to lock his bike to the railings for lack of anywhere else to put his bike. Most businesses in expensive Soho, do not have space to store bikes inside.
There’s one bike stand on the square serving probably over 1000 people. It has spaces for ten a maximum of ten bikes. It’s full. If there’s nowhere that you can leave your bike, then you’re not likely to cycle to work. Joined up thinking at the heart of government there.