Bikerail initiative: Road safety issues must be addressed
28 September 2009
Campaign for Better Transport welcomes Lord Adonis’s Bikerail initiative [1] but says it has to be accompanied by measures to make cycle access to stations easy and safe.
Stephen Joseph, executive director of Campaign for Better Transport said, “This is a welcome first step. Cycle parking and repair hubs will make cycling to stations a sensible option for many people, but the initiative has to be accompanied by interventions to make our roads more attractive to cyclists by reducing the danger posed by cars, vans and especially lorries, to more vulnerable road users.”
Lord Adonis was inspired by the Dutch town of Leiden which has 6,000 supervised cycle parking spots for a population of 118,000 [2].
Notes to Editors
[1] Please see the press release for the Department for Transport
[2] As reported in The Times today
