Mayor Boris Johnson regrets not building more segregated cycle lanes earlier

The outgoing London Mayor Boris Johnson regrets not building more segregated cycle lanes, whilst saying he "probably wouldn't have been re-elected, unfortunately".

Johnson told The Guardian that he should have gone further than his original cycle superhighways, without segregation. "Looking back on it, yes. If I had my time again, and if I knew then what I know now, I would have gone straight in with a massive programme of segregated cycle superhighways.

"I wouldn't have been re-elected... that's one thing to consider. But that would have been the right thing to do." He goes on in the interview to say that cycling generates "worse public hostility" than the European Union that he is campaigning against. He says that the current 3% of trips made by bike would be better if increased to 20% - as in 1904 - and predicted his successor, perhaps sceptical during the election, would end up building more, given an "irresistible logic" of doing so.

Johnson made the comments as he viewed a new segregated cycleway on the Embankment, which he said would make "a huge difference to public attitudes".