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Get your MP to join the British Cycling debate
This House of Commons debate is a follow-up to the recent 'Get Britain Cycling' report. British Cycling is encouraging all cyclists to ask his/her local MP to attend it, because as yet, government has made no commitment to act on its recommendations. The report recommended:
Ensuring that cycling is designed into all future roads, junctions and relevant transport policies
20mph speed limits in urban areas and lower speed limits on many rural roads
All children to be given the chance to learn the skills of road cycling, at primary and secondary school
Government funding on cycling to be £10 per head of the population
Just follow this link to get a letter template and to find the email/post address of your local MP:
http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/campaigning/article/cam20130718-Get-your-MP-to-debate-cycling-0?utm_medium=email&utm_source=British+Cycling&utm_campaign=2896160_British+Cycling+Member+News+25th+July+2013&dm_i=BM6,1Q2OW,9QNXFS,64RJR,1
I added the following request for more and better road maintenance in Cambridgeshire, which you are very welcome to copy. Give 'em hell!
On a more local level, I'd like to see Cambridgeshire put a lot more effort into maintaining our roads. This year I've cycled in Essex, Suffolk, Herts, Beds, Bucks, Somerset, South Wales, the Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales and every time I come home I'm quite shocked at how pot-holed and pitted our roads are in comparison. I also dislike the way roads are resurfaced here - spraying liberal amounts of gravel over tar - which might be cheaper for the council, but it causes significant damage to my car and to my bike. Why can't we have our roads properly resurfaced, as I witnessed them doing in the Dales only 3 weeks ago?
Ensuring that cycling is designed into all future roads, junctions and relevant transport policies
20mph speed limits in urban areas and lower speed limits on many rural roads
All children to be given the chance to learn the skills of road cycling, at primary and secondary school
Government funding on cycling to be £10 per head of the population
Just follow this link to get a letter template and to find the email/post address of your local MP:
http://www.britishcycling.org.uk/campaigning/article/cam20130718-Get-your-MP-to-debate-cycling-0?utm_medium=email&utm_source=British+Cycling&utm_campaign=2896160_British+Cycling+Member+News+25th+July+2013&dm_i=BM6,1Q2OW,9QNXFS,64RJR,1
I added the following request for more and better road maintenance in Cambridgeshire, which you are very welcome to copy. Give 'em hell!
On a more local level, I'd like to see Cambridgeshire put a lot more effort into maintaining our roads. This year I've cycled in Essex, Suffolk, Herts, Beds, Bucks, Somerset, South Wales, the Peak District and the Yorkshire Dales and every time I come home I'm quite shocked at how pot-holed and pitted our roads are in comparison. I also dislike the way roads are resurfaced here - spraying liberal amounts of gravel over tar - which might be cheaper for the council, but it causes significant damage to my car and to my bike. Why can't we have our roads properly resurfaced, as I witnessed them doing in the Dales only 3 weeks ago?
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this cycle lane was continuous, throughout every road and roundabout
it worked really, really well.
much more pleasant for cars (they didn't have to stop, slow down, manouver, be bothered by us at all) , and obviously it's the ideal solution for cyclists, as it means we can ride without stopping, even on roundabouts because you have, effectively, your own highway separate from car traffic. cars have to give way to cyclists on exiting a roundabout because we're on the outside. all just flows