Different than Critical mass rides? 10,000 cyclists demand better in London, UK, etc.

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Has transportation planning for the 2012 London Summer Olympics, created new work on cycling infrastructure improvements in the London area?

For Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics, the City of Vancouver and transit authority, TransLink had a goal to reduce incoming car traffic into the city area by 30% (some Olympic events were in downtown core, some sports events several kms further out).

It was an outright campaign for several months in advance to use transit, bike. There were road closures that were planned and ...temporary bike lanes created...of which 1 of them, a separated bike lane became permanent and runs into downtown Vancouver. But then we had the advantage of a brand new rapid light transit train added onto our network.

It was a transformative experience for Vancouver.

I know so because we live downtown.

Sorry, getting off topic. Hope that this huge ride, will spur on long-term hard work on cycling infrastructure and acknowledge existing behind the scenes work. It takes enormous dedicated work by cycling advocates and the municipality to work together...takes months, years of meetings, technical analysis,etc. It is this work, that is not seen by the public or the bigger group of cycling advocates who are not deeply involved on the planning side.