One of Boris Johnson's key election promises during the recent mayoral campaign was to make transport safer in London, but it seems he has failed to read his own memos.
The mayor was filmed last week cycling through six red lights, failing to stop at a zebra crossing and riding his bike on the pavement in the short journey to and from his new office.
He was secretly filmed by the Sunday Mirror, who also spotted him riding without a helmet, travelling from his home in Highbury, north London, to City Hall and home again on Friday.
Just minutes after leaving his home, the paper filmed him running two red lights, stopping to ask a taxi driver for directions, mounting the pavement and cycling through a park.
On his way back that evening, he correctly walked with his bike through the park, but then jumped another two red lights, chatted to a taxi driver about bendy buses, ran another red light, cycled over a zebra crossing even though a pedestrian was about to cross over, and finally went through another red light.
A spokesman for Johnson said the mayor felt very strongly that cyclists should not jump red lights and added that he would be "more careful" in future.
But the Tory mayor need not worry that his actions will incur the wrath of party leader David Cameron - this time at least.
Cameron was also caught riding his bicycle through a red light and going the wrong way down a one-way street in March, but apologised.
Johnson must be now hoping that Cameron makes a habit of making inappropriate comments and earning a reputation as a bungler in order to make it appear that he is simply towing the party line.
