Cycling UK urges government to rethink road safety approach four years on
Cycling UK, the country’s leading cycling charity, is calling on the government to reverse cuts and fund a new THINK!-style campaign, updated for today’s digital landscape to raise awareness of the 2022 changes to the Highway Code. The charity believes an awareness campaign is crucial to the government’s own ‘safe systems approach’ to road safety, […]
Road Safety Strategy: National Fire Chiefs Council among organisations to welcome plans to reduce deaths and serious injuries on the roads
The transport industry is continuing to respond to the UK Government’s Road Safety Strategy published yesterday. National Fire Chiefs Council NFCC) Road Safety Lead, Dan Quin, said: “NFCC strongly welcomes the announcement of a new road safety strategy, which is a crucial step towards reducing deaths and serious injuries on our roads. NFCC and organisations across the […]
Lancaster University team invited to Parliament for cycling health event
A team of researchers and engagement professionals from Lancaster University contributed to a prestigious Parliamentary event focussing on active travel. Dr Abby Morris, a lecturer in workplace health and wellbeing, PhD student Jordan Banks and Health Innovation Campus Innovation Community Manager, Stuart Powers, joined active travel influencers and inspirational cycling leaders to celebrate 10 years […]
Six cycling and walking organisations criticise government’s ‘Plan for Drivers’
Six of the UK’s leading cycling and walking organisations have criticised the government’s ‘Plan for Drivers’, which announced at the Conservative Party Conference yesterday, saying it denies people their choice, health and freedom, reports Air Quality News. The following is a joint statement released by the CEOs of Bikeability Trust, British Cycling, Cycling UK, Living […]
5p cut in fuel duty represents three times the current active travel spend, says new report
A 5p cut in fuel duty represents three times the current spending on active travel in the UK, according to a new report, which suggests that the financial relief would be better invested in active travel. The ‘Spending £2.4bn Better’ technical report concludes that the fuel duty cut – applied by the government in response to […]
Research by Cycling UK shows huge variation in active travel spend
Research by Cycling UK has shown that some councils in England are investing 170 times more per head on active travel than others. Its research has indicated that there is a huge variation in active travel spending by local authorities across the country – from £34 a year per head of population to just 20 […]
Scottish voters show strong support for the next Scottish government to commit 10% of its transport budget for active travel
Scottish voters have shown strong support for the next Scottish Government to commit at least 10% of its transport budget to active travel. This would represent record spending on cycling and walking and a major increase on the 3.5% of the 2021 transport budget allocation. In a poll carried out this month by YouGov on […]
Two-thirds of young adults in Wales in favour of more active travel schemes
Nearly two-thirds (63%) of those aged 16-24 support allocating 10% of the Welsh transport budget to cycling and walking, while just 8% oppose it, acording to a new YouGov poll. In the poll carried out by YouGov on behalf of Cycling UK, 1,194 people were asked whether they would support or oppose a pledge by […]
Spending Review goes backwards on cycling investment, says Cycling UK
The Spending Review 2020 is failing to meet its own commitments and objectives for funding cycling and walking in England, with the wider funding package completely at odds with the Government decarbonisation strategy, Cycling UK campaigns manager, Keir Gallagher said. The Government has previously said that it would need to spend between £6bn to £8bn […]