What to do about it?  Newcastle Council apparently think that retail businesses will leave if the don't get free car parking, more on that latter.  Kim Harding has suggested that the solution to getting more people on bikes is taxing car parking, I'm not so sure.

I'm convinced that the way to get large numbers of people shopping by bike is really quite straight forward.  You take places where the majority of shoppers are already walking, you make them a bit more bike friendly, you put in a few...