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Barry writes: “After being told by the police this would be treated as a failure to stop, the investigating officer then decided that because I had traced the car's insurers, it would be left to the insurers to apportion blame.

“It was only after exchanges with the police that they decided to do something about the driving offences and it was clear the most likely outcome was going to a driving awareness course (DAC). The driver was finally contacted and agreed to go on a DAC.

“The investigating officer's recommendation for a DAC for the driver was ‘declined due to evidence and not in the public interest to prosecute. Also the time elapsed since the initial incident.’ As a result the police are taking no further action against this driver.”

Barry added that the delay was with the police not him. “They had the full footage and a statement from me the same evening as the incident.”

The 140 mile ride with teammate Salvatore Puccio covered over 22,000 feet of climbing... only to be flagged by vigilant/jealous members of the Strava community (team car suspicions perhaps?)

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The actress has been praised in the past for her activism promoting LGBT rights, but perhaps the same can't be said of her views on the environment after she expressed her dislike for segregated bike lanes in New York City. Appearing on ABC's 'The View', Goldberg said to the New York Mayor Bill de Blasio: “You know what’s really pissing me off? You’ve built 83 miles of protected bike lanes, okay. And I like bikes, I like people who ride, but I don’t think you understand the impact of taking something like 10th Avenue, which is six lanes down to two-and-a-half, particularly when you have a winter storm and you can’t move – none of that is movable.

“You screwed the city up. I come in every day, and I find that because you can’t make a turn anywhere, you can’t go straight anywhere. When there is a storm, people can’t move anywhere, because you got all these medians in the way, and I’m just saying you might want to take a look at some of this. Because now you have Cuomo coming in talking about congestion pricing, and I kind of feel like it’s a set up.”

Goldberg has been reminded by transport activists that the bike lanes, part of New York's Vision Zero, are reducing road deaths according to stats. Speaking to Metro USA, Joe Cutrufo of Transportation Alternatives said: “Vision zero is saving lives. She contends that the mayor has screwed up the city, we would argue that cutting traffic fatalities by a third in just five years is the opposite of that. Maybe even more important, bike lanes are a critical part of the transportation system in a city where the majority of residents don’t drive.

Of the 3.8 million workers in New York City, only 27 percent commute via car, truck or van, according to the New York City Economic Development Corporation. In Manhattan specifically that number drops to 8 percent. For a long time there has been a perception that drivers rule the roost, that needs to change and frankly that is changing. We have reclaimed many miles of street space in this city and intend to reclaim even more.

“You can’t move as many people in cars as you can in space-efficient modes like buses and bikes and [by] walking. It’s a shame that this narrative continues when the benefits of designing streets for pedestrian and bicyclists and transit riders are so obvious, for economic and environmental and equity benefits.”

British Cycling says its culture has improved since Varnish raised concerns and it hopes to ‘welcome her to national cycling centre’.

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— Colin K. Hughes (@colinkhughes) January 16, 2019

This is normally the point in the race where we get a much clearer idea who’s going to win.