Institute of Advanced Motorists

Road safety charity the Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) is currently running a poll on its website regarding cycling issues – and you don’t need to be a member (nor indeed a motorist) to have your say.

The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) has called on car drivers to pay extra attention to cyclists looking to avoid potholes as the nation emerges from the cold snap that covered Britain in a blanket of snow earlier this month.

The Institute of Advanced Motorists  (IAM) is calling on governments from around the world, who are meeting in Moscow at the first ever Global Ministerial Summit on Road Safety today, to agree plans for a Decade of Action which would save five million lives on the world’s roads.

The Institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM) welcomed the announcement made by Secretary of State for Transport Lord Adonis yesterday of the introduction of the Cycle to Work Guarantee, but also warned that the scheme may need to go further still in order for the number of cyclists to continue to rise.

The IAM (Institute of Advanced Motorists) has responded to May's Public Account Committee report – titled Improving road safety for pedestrians and cyclists in Great Britain - by saying that more ‘real world’ training for returning cyclists and greater mutual respect are the key to enticing more people out of their cars.

The IMA supported the reports calls for joined up government and better accident recording, but it added that safety campaigns need to be aimed at drivers and avoid cultivating the ‘us and them’ culture.

Five million motorists cycle regularly according to a new study by the institute of Advanced Motorists (IAM)  and getting even more drivers on bikes is the key to less congestion, better health and less pollution, says the IAM. Its new study published today, Cycling Motorists (download link below) identifies the enormous potential for many more motorists to take up cycling either for leisure and more especially to replace car journeys.