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SkyCycle: London’s Car-Free Highway of the Future

Instead of squeezing more cars onto London’s busy streets, planners have proposed a superhighway that could accommodate up to 12,000 cyclists an hour. 
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Instead of squeezing more cars onto London’s busy streets, planners have proposed a superhighway, pictured above, that could accommodate up to 12,000 cyclists an hour. 

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