LAURA LAKER

Laura Laker is a journalist and author with 15 years’ experience exploring active travel and transport. Laura's first book was the Amazon bestselling book, Potholes and Pavements: A Bumpy Ride on Britain's National Cycle Network. In 2020 she led on publication of the UK’s first media reporting guidelines for road collisions. Laura has written for the Guardian, Bloomberg, and specialist cycling and transport publications, and sometimes appears on TV, radio and podcasts as a pundit. In 2025 she wrote two reports for All Party Parliamentary Groups: on the rise in 'fake e-bikes' and 'ghost plates', and in 2026 wrote a campaigners’ guide to delivering rural greenways. She co-hosts the popular Streets Ahead Podcast.