Government Cycling Strategy

[gavgav]

Interested to read this earlier. Can't help but think we've heard all this before and nothing ever happens of any note because the money runs out before anything useful happens. I expect a few painted cycle lanes and that will be it.....

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35906105

 

[albion]

I bet it is just a regurgitation.

Cycle profiiency grants has been going on for years, and considering TFL claim a spend of £100m per year for cycling, a £300m centralisded grand total sounds very low.

 

[tallliman]

According to Chris Boardman on the radio earlier, it's actually a reduction and amounts to less than a fiver each.

 

[John the Monkey]

The government has a cycling strategy?

 

[growingvegetables]

The government has a cycling strategy?

Yup.

They have an ambition for "a long-term transformative change process". Good. Brilliant. Spot on.

So what does it include?

- reduced funding;
- extending targets to 2040 (long after I'm gone!);
- and passing the buck to local authorities (whose funding has already been slashed).

Ah - perhaps not so much a "cycling strategy", as a "recycling vacuous hot-air strategy." And hoping we don't notice that there's a tiny discrepancy between £10 per head, and £1.13 per head.

 

[Supersuperleeds]

no doubt any spend will be concentrated in London.

 

[User16625]

Lets face it, our government doesnt have the right people for redesigning infrastructure of any sort. I mean Cameron or Brunel? Somehow I think cycling will be better off without government intervention. Government should stick to harassing people who drive a bit quickly or saving polo bears.

 

[Crackle]

Released on Easter Sunday: Says everything without needing to read it.

 

[Crackle]

 

[jefmcg]

I know we are in Europe, and we should expect better, but after reading about what the NSW Government is doing in Australia, draconian fines enforced by belligerent public order police with a Government who speak as if cycling, like smoking and drinking, is an activity that is best for the community if it is repressed as much as possible, I'm at least happy the UK Government is paying lip-service to cycling.

(phew. what a long sentence!)

 

[derrick]

There strategy is to give us token gestures. They really do not want people on bikes or walking, They would lose to much revenue.

 

[jefmcg]

According to my back-of-the-envelope calculation, that's about half what they spend on maintaining (not building or widening) motorways.

(https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...y-s-motorway-and-a-road-network-per-lane-mile so say £50,000/mile/year and we have > 2000 miles of motorways)

 

[sheddy]

Consultation ends 23rd May
https://www.gov.uk/government/consultations/draft-cycling-and-walking-investment-strategy

 

[Spinney]

Don't bother with the infrastructure spending - just change the law to presumed liability and it won't be long before people feel safer on the normal roads...