End "half cycle lanes": minister's long-term funding hint
Transport Secretary wants end to "perverse half cycle lanes" and hints at long-term funding for cycling and walking
In response, Haigh told the Committee: “It’s exactly that, that the Integrated Transport Strategy is wanting to address because it’s so frustrating for people to see half a cycle lane and then you’re chucked onto a dual carriageway or a very unsafe stretch of road, and we need to make sure that whatever is delivering those very perverse outcomes at a local level are properly addressed and part of the reason for that is the stop start approach.
“I think the lessons from Covid was that the money was out the door and they required it to be built too quickly and it lost the support of local communities in some instances, and it’s really important that things are done with local people otherwise it can get into a very messy culture war that can become very unpleasant and toxic.
On road collisions, Haigh took a strident tone, saying: “I really think one death on the roads is too many. I think we treat road safety in a way as if it was a natural accident. I think if the numbers of people being killed or seriously injured on our roads were killed in any other ways, we’d be treating it as a pandemic and I think we have normalised it for too long.”We’ve noticed you’re using an ad blocker. If you like road.
How about, for every cyclist/pedestrian fatality caused by motorists, they'll allocate another £100m from the road budget over to Active Travel.
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