The All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group’s ‘Get Britain Cycling’ Inquiry is to publish its report next week, and Chris Boardman has been speaking ahead of it about his fears that it might not achieve much.
In February Boardman told a panel of MPs and peers at the inquiry that British cycling was at a watershed moment, and the government needed to show more leadership.
He told the Liverpool Daily Post this week: “What few people realise is that this process has been undertaken before, when an almost identical inquiry led to a report and recommendations.
“That report, more or less, came to nought... I’m anxious that this time around the pressure stays on to implement the outcomes.
“The enemy will not be a visible stance against actions that promote bikes. It’ll be apathy and lack of positive actions and political courage.
He added though, that the climate had now changed, making him more hopeful about the outcome of this report.
“The up-side is that the climate is now ready for this and there is a lot of weight to make real change. Cycling is now fashionable, whereas last time around it wasn’t, so I’m really hopeful.”
And the world famous Olympian made a special and direct plea for Post readers to begin that change process here in Merseyside.
“The key place to start is for everyone reading this article to take two minutes to ask themselves, ‘What does the place I want to live in look like?’ ‘What kind of place do I want my kids to live in?’ I doubt anyone’s vision involves more cars or more parking.
“For me, I want my kids to be able to ride to school and the park, I’d like to be able to pedal to the station or shops. This can only happen if there are less cars, and people will only use cars less if they are not the easiest solution. So, the key is local governments having a clear and detailed holistic view of what they want their cities to look like in 10 years. Only then can you measure actions and ask, ‘Does this get me closer to the vision or further away?’
“If they share that vision with people, showing what they want to achieve, I’d be surprised if people didn’t totally buy into it.”
I think we've had enough silliness here. Move along!
Im suspecting Haverhill is much much more sleepy than Kiev in comparison.
Ive been finding its next to unusable, Im guessing its some adsense thing either running an ad, or stealing a bunch of resources to load the ad.
It's not cherry picking....
However we have seen alot less for similar. This and the one I mentioned the other day where the driver pled guilty and stated at his arrest he...
Would have been better if he had looked at the cyclists keeping fit and decided "I'll have what they are having".
I'm an off-road drop-bar rider, none of this applies to me! 😁
A smartphone set to handsfree is always fully legal, especially when held in the hand...
I've had a pair of these (and, in fact, the full length ones) for a few years and they really are very good.
surely the police can do better that this? A woman almost died ffs...