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West Yorkshire's abysmal plans for cycling
I have been following the West Yorkshire Combined Authority's (Leeds, Bradford, Calderdale etc councils working together on shared interests) plans for transport, and their vision for cycling would be a joke, if it wasn't so seriously bad.
Their vision for 2026 (to be found here: http://www.westyorks-ca.gov.uk/ytys/) includes:
-a increase of cycling commuting to a whopping 1.6% of journeys. By this rate, Leeds will match London's current level of cycling by around 2086, and Copenhagen's current rate by around 2516.
-no commitment at all to any new high quality cycling infrastructure, but they do include some praise for the woefully inadequate Leeds-Bradford cycling 'super' highway. Instead, there is a commitment to publicity campaigns to promote cycling.
-but plenty of commitment to new bypasses and road developments to ease congestion.
Leeds was known as the "Motorway city" in the 1970s, and tragically, the mentality hasn't changed.
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- hawkinspeter 1 sec ago
How can that possibly not be a deliberate decision?...
- JMcL_Ireland 4 sec ago
SBS in Australia. They have the Tour, Vuelta, Giro, and a bunch of other races - all free and live. I think they do catch-up as well
- Rendel Harris 3 min 42 sec ago
Well you don't even know how to spell it…
- wtjs 5 min 19 sec ago
The UK police need to sit down with their counterparts in the DVLA and DVSA to sort out the discrepancy in their understanding of the Highway Code ...
- jayinjapants 3 hours 30 min ago
Mine takes 38s but the clearance on the front derailleur is rather tight.
- jakker 5 hours 23 min ago
Physics, it's how things work.
- Simmo72 9 hours 36 min ago
TNT can sit on my seatpost and swivel. Not giving a penny to the vile bean counters.
- C3a 11 hours 26 min ago
I agree. Off to sign.
- themuffle 11 hours 39 min ago
With both Hunt and Scribe, I really think you'd be mad to get wheels from anybody else.
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of course...its a headline initiaitive that does nothing in reality.....said many times LCC should be concentrating on some of the main feeder roads to the city centre
This is largely driven by Leeds, whose councillors have been fanatically pro-car for decades. Despite there being huge numbers of non-car-owners in West Yorkshire, the authorities are not willing to spend money on anything other than motor infrastructure.
Raising cycling numbers is something the authorities are just not interested in. Setting such a low target allows them to pretend to be working to improve the lot for bike riders, so that they can pretend to be a modern, forward-thinking council, but achieve the useless target without doing much.