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Dog in bike basket (copyright Simon MacMichael)

Letting Local Sustainable Transport Fund end will not bring about PM’s cycling revolution says Sustrans policy director

Dedicated funding to support sustainable local travel will ‘hit a brick wall’ in 2016

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Bournemouth Town Hall (Graffity, Wikimedia Commons)

Anger in Bournemouth and Bury St Edmunds as government refuses to fund safer cycling schemes

Sustrans appeals for local cycling funding to be promised beyond 2016: £64m against £1.5bn road building plans

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Big Ben © Simon MacMichael

£2 million from Local Sustainable Transport Fund for nine projects across England

Schemes in Tyne & Wear and West Yorkshire take three quarters of the money between them

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Bids invited for share of £78.5m Local Sustainable Transport Fund cash

Money relates to 2015/16 year - but maximum bid amount of £1 million is much smaller than before

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Chancellor gives £42m to cycling but it’s dwarfed by spend on roads; fuel duty hike also scrapped

Autumn statement sets out government spending plans

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Dog in bike basket (copyright Simon MacMichael)

LSTF North West round-up: How government money for cycling is being spent in Salford, Tameside and the Wirral

First in series of regional round-ups on how Local Sustainable Transport Fund money is being allocated

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Norman Baker announces £225 million Local Sustainable Transport Fund boost for a dozen major projects in England

Reading's award of £20.7 million includes rollout of bike share scheme; more than £40 million awarded to smaller schemes

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DfT announces £113 million funding for green travel initiatives throughout England

Many of the projects to benefit aim to stimulate economic growth as well as cutting carbon emissions

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