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How the Government’s cycling strategy overlooks rural riding

During the last days of Boris Johnson’s premiership, the Government launched the second installment of its strategy to boost active travel in England. Unsexily dubbed CWIS2, the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy, like its predecessor, was lacking in investment or strategy, and it was thin on details. Worse though, it somehow fudged or mislaid £450m in projected investment figures to 2025, as Cycling UK’s policy aficionado, Roger Geffen pointed out. While there is ambition around growing walking and cycling, there is, as Geffen notes, no requirement to fund that ambition - and the figures attached to the investment aren’t enough to meet its aims. Perhaps most pertinently, for the considerable proportion of us who live outside of cities, the document codified Number 10’s focus on cycle investment in cities and…

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Cycling Plus (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2022

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