Cycling on Vauxhall Bridge: a 'liar' claim and a few damned statistics

Boris Johnson's cycling commissioner Andrew Gilligan was greatly displeased by a London radio report on one of the mayor's cycle superhighways.

Great excitement broke out on Nick Ferrari's LBC Radio show last week when Boris Johnson's fellow Telegraph writer and cycling commissioner Andrew Gilligan called the station's political editor Theo Usherwood "a liar".

Usherwood had compiled a report from Vauxhall Bridge, where a fully segregated, two-way cycle track has recently been opened as part of the mayor's cycle superhighway 5 (CS5). He said pedestrians and motorists were inconvenienced by the new road infrastructure and that many cyclists were ignoring it.