Ten bikes that made history – in pictures

Potholes kill, cost billions to fix and are the focus of endless apps and initiatives (yes, there’s a UK Pothole Fund). Enter the brave urban warriors fighting to slay this original urban bugbear for good

Beijing’s metro system has already grown bigger than the London Underground – and by 2020 it will more than double in size again. Tania Branigan takes its longest journey to see how the city is coping with such staggering growth

Our man goes deep (underground) with Crossrail’s cock-a-hoop chairman to see if all the hype surrounding London’s new underground railway is merited

Brussels hosts the giant bureaucracy of the EU ... yet its roads are the most congested in Europe. Laurent Vermeersch reports on what Belgium is doing so wrong

Adam Greenfield explains why many urbanists think the lowly bus – emblem of all that is slow, stigmatised and wasteful – is the key to city transit ... and that Latin America is the only place doing it right