Get Britain Cycling report and petition

graeme_s-2

Cross posted from Commuting General in hopes of getting a bit more interest

Please sign the e-petition on the 10 Downing Street website asking for David Cameron to commit to the Get Britain Cycling report's recommendations:

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49196

The "Get Britain Cycling" report has been published today. The summary of the recommendations is available here (PDF):

http://www.ctc.org.uk/sites/default/fil ... ycling.pdf

The headline recommendations from the report are:

• aim for 10% of trips by bike by 2025 and 25% by 2050, and
• £10 per person, per year in funding for cycling

There's also a nice article by Chris Boardman in the Times today

Chris Boardman wrote:

The way we travel now is killing us. We're the fattest people in Western Europe

davis

£10 per caput is an astonishingly low cost. I wonder how much the cost per driver is.

Signified.

bails87

I read an EU- wide report a few weeks ago that found that drivers are subsidised to the value of €2000 per driver per year. So what's that? £1700?

I think that included costs caused by air pollution, crashes etc, not just the cost of building the roads.

graeme_s-2

One of the other recommendations in the report is that the DfT shouldn't shoulder all of the costs. The savings are seen by a whole range of departments, so they should all chip in.

rhext

Signed.

You have to be a bit careful about per capita costs for drivers. Everyone knows that they pay so much road tax that they support the rest of civilisation practically on their own :-)

graeme_s-2

Looking at it now, I'm a bit unclear on the funding. I took it to be £10 per UK resident per year, as opposed to £10 per cyclist per year. Some of the press are describing it as £1 billion, but the UK population as of 2011 (according to Google) is 62,641,000 which would be £626.41 million per year. So not sure now what's actually being suggested.

bails87

Yeah, I don't know how they've got to £1bn, but it's got to be done per head of population. If it's stuff aimed at the 2% or whatever it is who regularly cycle instead of driving/PTing and cones with a tiny bit of funding to match the tiny minority status of "cyclists" then it will achieve nothing.

This had to be about making cycling seem like a safe and convenient option, not catering for the current 'hardcore' sport-commuters and mamils.

rjsterry

Signed. £600M per year would be good £1Bn better still, but at £10-20M per CSH, you can get through that pretty quickly. If it does come to pass, let's also hope that the recommendations on how to spend it are adhered to.

graeme_s-2

Right, I understand where the £1 billion figure is coming from now. The report recommends starting out with cycle funding of £10 per person per year and then increasing it to £20 per person per year as cycling becomes more popular (it's £24 per person per year in the Netherlands at the moment).

The press just seemed to have latched onto £1 billion as it's a nice big round number.

menthel

I have signed, tweeted and facebooked the heck out of it!