Money is tight in this parliament but surely not so tight that 3 per cent of the transport budget cannot be found for cyclists. This is the simple request of the Get Britain Cycling report and the The Times’s Cities Fit For Cycling campaign. In the summer of 2012, in the glow of the London Olympics, the prime minister promised that one of its legacies would be “a cycling revolution”.
Today MPs gather in the House of Commons for a debate on cycle safety in which progress towards the revolution will be charted. The Department for Transport has delayed and delayed the publication of its plan for cycle provision and, when it arrives this morning, it will speak only of an “aspiration to explore” the