Filed under: Green Culture, On Two Wheels, Green Daily, UK

While car, truck and SUV (or, better said, car, lorry and 4×4) drivers in the UK are dealing with the new congestion charges that are coming to London, bicycle riders in the country can celebrate a huge increase in bicycle spending, £140 million worth to be exact. The trouble is that the £140 million is the funding given to Cycling England for three years of projects in all of England.

London mayor Ken Livingstone announced that week that a dozen segregated cycling highways and “borough cycling zones” will be built in some of the many “less-traveled” routes in the city. Livingstone told Cycling Week magazine that public in his city shouldn’t get

mad at the space being assigned to two-wheeled human-powered transportation.

“People shouldn’t assume that that is cyclists taking something away from folks with cars. that is aimed at citizens with cars, getting them to give up their car and actually cycle. And everybody who switches relieves road space,” he said.

This is the kind of plan that will actually reduce congestion, something the congestion charge is supposed to do.

[Source: Cycling Weekly via EVWorld]

 

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