Being realistic





Because that has been working great so far.






4 responses to “Being realistic


    If this is true hen it is politically naive to expect mass cycling in the UK. It is pretty much that simple.

  2. As well as having a regional Mayor and all that goes with that, we also have neighbourhood policing with priorities set by whoever turns up to meetings and complains most. Currently many neighbourhoods are prioritising things that do nothing to help cyclists and may even hinder them, but it doesn’t have to be that way. If cyclists made it their business to turn up to the meetings that set neighbourhood priorities we could get the police to do more on enforcing the current rules of the road. So it is certainly not the case that what Carlton Reid is talking about requires legislative change from central government. A lot of it just requires better local lobbying to get the police to enforce the laws we already have.

    Also, I read Carlton as saying that we need to grow the cyclist constituency before we can reasonably expect government or the Mayor to just hand over large chunks of road infrastructure to us at the cost of motorists. That seems completely reasonable to me, and as well as describing fairly accurately what has actually happened in the last few years.

  3. I would not push uniformly; I would concentrate efforts in those places where success is most likely. In American terms, it makes more sense to promote bike lanes in Silicon Valley (flat, moderate climate, dense) than it does in Atlanta (often hot, more spread out). Why set yourself up for failure?

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