Boris Johnson: 'I wish I'd built more segregated cycling routes for London'

As the London mayor nears the end of his time in office he looks back on what he's achieved for cycling in the capital - and the hostility he's faced

Standing next to what he calls the "billiard table-smooth" surface of the new segregated bike route along the Embankment in central London, Boris Johnson is paying tribute to the Transport for London team that helped create it, and the other mixed bag of cycling infrastructure he will leave behind after eight years as mayor.

"They've done an amazing job, considering how difficult it is in London to take road space and give it to cycling," he says. "It's very, very politically difficult. But it's the right thing to do."