Parliament asks to Get Britain Cycling – our response
Our response to the Parliamentary Inquiry, 'Get Britain Cycling' is now online.
We will be giving evidence in person to the inquiry shortly.
Key points:
- The need for a strategic cycling body in government
- Adopting the Dutch CROW-25 guidance as official UK government policy on cycle infrastructure
- Getting on with, and funding, improvements, rather than a continual treadmill of further studies
- Cycling integration with health – facilitating active travel
- Consistency in funding, not odds and ends that result in short-term compromises
- National, ambitious targets for cycling
- Exploring whether to make cycle training a compulsory part of the driving test
- Addressing safety by reducing speed and by providing Dutch-quality infrastructure
- Priority over sideroads in infrastructure design
- A national standard cycle lane width of 2.1m, ideally as hybrid or a fully-segregated Dutch-style cycle track
- Enforcement of traffic law, based on the principle of relative danger of types of vehicles
- Introducing civil enforcement of cycle lanes by bringing the Traffic Management Act 2004 Part 6 into force
- A range of proposals to deal with HGV safety and driver training
- A whole range of measures related to urban design
- Tackling cycle theft through wider provision of cycle parking in towns, workplaces, residences
- Integration of public transport with the bicycle
- 20mph in residential areas
We hope to give oral evidence to the Inquiry also in due course.