SHORTLISTED 2025

The Vikki Orvice Award for Women's Sports Writing | Shortlisted

Potholes and Pavements

by Laura Laker

Half of the UK population live within a mile of the National Cycling Network but many don’t even know it exists. What has gone right – and wrong – with this national infrastructure? Cycling journalist Laura Laker lifts the lid on this maddening, patchy and at times dangerous network, and its similarly precarious politics.

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