Cycling good for health

[mjr]

Today the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence confirms cycling is good for health and road upgrades should prioritise cycling, walking and mass transport. https://www.nice.org.uk/news/articl...-and-public-transport-over-motorised-vehicles


New and upgraded roads should prioritise pedestrians, cyclists and public transport over motorised vehicles
nice.org.uk

Will this make any difference?

 

[DCLane]

Nope. Sorry to be a misery but not near me. Leeds City Council appears to be eyeing up our local greenway to turn into a bus-only route.

 

[mjr]

Nope. Sorry to be a misery but not near me. Leeds City Council appears to be eyeing up our local greenway to turn into a bus-only route.

I think I know what they'll try next if they get away with it. We let that happen a decade ago and now the councils keeps pushing to open it to all motorists.

Please fight it!

 

[derrick]

Today the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence confirms cycling is good for health and road upgrades should prioritise cycling, walking and mass transport. https://www.nice.org.uk/news/articl...-and-public-transport-over-motorised-vehicles


New and upgraded roads should prioritise pedestrians, cyclists and public transport over motorised vehicles
nice.org.uk

Will this make any difference?

No the motorist brings in lots of revenue, what revenue does a cyclist bring in?

 

[roadrash]

will it make a difference......will it feck...it would be nice if it did, but it wont.

 

[Corky Cyclist]

If NICE think cycling is good for health, they haven’t seen the state of my knees.

 

[jefmcg]

Nope. Sorry to be a misery but not near me. Leeds City Council appears to be eyeing up our local greenway to turn into a bus-only route.

Sympathy. But it's a new report, so not one your council could have taken into account (let's just pretend shall we?). Is the a consultancy still running? Can you submit this?

If NICE think cycling is good for health, they haven’t seen the state of my knees.

And you haven't (I hope!) seen the state of your heart.

 

[snorri]

Will this make any difference?

No, not as long as the government continues to subsidise private motoring at its present level.

 

[mjr]

No the motorist brings in lots of revenue, what revenue does a cyclist bring in?

Motorists might bring in revenue but they cost even more - estimates of the net cost vary between about 70p per car mile according to "Science for Environment Policy, European Commission DG Environment News Alert Service, edited by SCU, The University of the West of England, Bristol" to 52p per car mile (converted from €/km) in the Netherlands on

View: https://youtu.be/ayPDlDi9Ug4


Meanwhile, cycling benefits society by almost a pound a mile (€0.68/km = 96p/mile) in the Netherlands, or 22p a mile across the EU.

Government should prioritise the more profitable transport mode instead of focusing only on revenue - turnover is vanity, profit is sanity.

 

[lazybloke]

The consultation was mentioned on Beeb Radio London this morning. I only caught a few mins but heard a caller being asked whether giving up their car was possible.

Apparently not because it is vital, especially for the 5 minute drive home when tired after the gym.

But apparently this is okay because the caller "offsets" that by walking when in London.

I stopped listening at that point.

 

[snorri]

The consultation was mentioned on Beeb Radio London this morning. I only caught a few mins but heard a caller being asked whether giving up their car was possible.

I wish they would never ask that question! It need not be a black and white situation but the car, or no car question rather puts the interviewee in a defensive position throughout the interview.
I think few car owners would consider giving up car ownership but a fair proportion could be enabled to use their car less frequently.

 

[screenman]

The consultation was mentioned on Beeb Radio London this morning. I only caught a few mins but heard a caller being asked whether giving up their car was possible.

Apparently not because it is vital, especially for the 5 minute drive home when tired after the gym.

But apparently this is okay because the caller "offsets" that by walking when in London.

I stopped listening at that point.

Did you here the bit when the caller said cyclists pushed him into the path of oncoming vehicles.

 

[NorthernDave]

Nope. Sorry to be a misery but not near me. Leeds City Council appears to be eyeing up our local greenway to turn into a bus-only route.

Which Greenway?

Don't forget that LCC have already given us cyclists the great wandering CSH...

 

[lane]

No - in my area they are removing cycling infrastructure to improve throughput of motorised vehicles in order to reduce pollution because they have breached legal limits for pollution.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Do cars generate more pollution when stationary compared to say moving at 40mph?