Start a cycling revolution — and save lives and money, MPs urge

The Prime Minister must back calls to unleash a cycling revolution
The Prime Minister must back calls to unleash a cycling revolution
TIMES PHOTOGRAPHER, RICHARD POHLE

David Cameron is being urged to start a cycling revolution as a cross-party group of MPs and peers calls for the transformation of Britain’s streets.

Motoring organisations, road safety professionals and opposition MPs welcomed proposals that they claim would save lives, improve public health and save millions of pounds spent treating preventable disease.

The recommendations come after a four-month parliamentary inquiry, inspired by The Times Cities Fit for Cycling campaign, into how to encourage more cycling and to protect those on the roads.

The inquiry’s proposals include:

• A default 20mph speed limit on residential streets.

• Access for all schoolchildren to cycle training.

• Better road surfaces and junctions.

• Widespread segregated cycle routes.

• Improved lorry design and driver training.

• Stricter