You ride a bike, right? You'd like more pleasant and less dangerous places to live? You'd like to reduce the burden on the NHS? You'd like to help local economies and small traders? You'd like to be able to take your kids out on a ride from your door to the park or the shops?
Then please sign this and tell everyone you can about it:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49196
This report is the best opportunity we've had - or will have - for some time to transform cycling in the UK.
Even if you're sceptical about petitions, why not sign it? Can't hurt. If it becomes huge it'll send a signal. And it won't become huge without your name on it.
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Link to report?
Link to report?
Via the British Cycling article:
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What are the report's recommendations?
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[quote=crazy-legs ]Link to report?
Via the British Cycling article:
> http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/campaigning/article/cam20130423-campaigning-news-National-cycling-targets-must-be-as-ambitious-as-our-medal-record--says-Boardman-0
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someone needs to boot the proofreader up the arse
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The report (insert link),
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The recommendations are bullet-pointed on the bottom-right of each section of the report:
All sensible and pertinent, and strike a good balance between achievable and ambitious. A few are a little vague and unmeasurable, but I guess in some cases that's inevitable.
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Sceptical anything will change tho'!
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What are the report's recommendations?
A Quick bit of Copy/paste/edit from the PDF:
1. Create a cycling budget of at least £10 per person per year, increasing to £20
2. Ensure local and national bodies, such as the Highways Agency, Department for Transport, and local government allocate funds to cycling of at least the local proportion of journeys done by bike.
3. Cycle spending that makes a tangible contribution to other government departments, such as Health, Education, Sport and Business, should be funded from those budgets, not just the DfT.
4. A statutory requirement that cyclists’ and pedestrians’ needs are considered at an early stage of all new development schemes, including housing and business developments as well as traffic and transport schemes, including funding through the planning system
5. Revise existing design guidance, to include more secure cycle parking, continental best practice for cycle-friendly planning and design, and an audit process to help planners, engineers and architects to think bike in all their work.
6. The Highways Agency should draw up a programme to remove the barriers to cycle journeys parallel to or across trunk roads and motorway corridors, starting with the places where the potential for increased cycle use is greatest.
7. Local authorities should seek to deliver cycle-friendly improvements across their existing roads, including small improvements, segregated routes, and road reallocation.
8. The Department for Transport should approve and update necessary new regulations, such as allowing separate traffic lights for cyclists and implementing Part 6 of the Traffic Management Act 2004.
9. Extend 20 mph speed limits in towns, and consider 40mph limits on many rural lanes.
10. Improve HGV safety by vehicle design, driver training, and mutual awareness with cyclists; promote rail freight and limit use of HGVs on the busiest urban streets at the busiest times, and use public sector projects to drive fleet improvements.
11. Strengthen the enforcement of road traffic law, including speed limits, and ensuring that driving offences - especially those resulting in death or injury - are treated sufficiently seriously by police, prosecutors and judges.
12. Provide cycle training at all primary and secondary schools
13. Offer widespread affordable (or free) cycle training and other programmes to encourage people of all ages and backgrounds to give cycling a try, as evidenced by NICE.
14. Promote cycling as a safe and normal activity for people of all ages and backgrounds.
15. The Government should produce a cross-departmental Cycling Action Plan, with annual progress reports.
16. The Government should appoint a national Cycling Champion, an expert from outside the Department for Transport.
17. The government should set national targets to increase cycle use from less than 2% of journeys in 2011, to 10% of all journeys in 2025, and 25% by 2050
18. Central and local government and devolved authorities should each appoint a lead politician responsible for cycling.
