The Chairman of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group, Gwyn Prosser MP, has tabled Early Day Motion 1431(EDM), arguing that cyclists' benefit from safety in numbers.

The EDM supports the evidence presented in CTC's Safety in Numbers (5 MB pdf), which demonstrates that cycling gets safer the more cyclists there are. 

It also welcomes the target set in A Safer Way, the Government's draft Road Safety Strategy, of halving the risks of cycling within ten years. 

Following on from what CTC put forward in the Safety in Numbers report, the EDM says that the best way to halve the risk of cycling is to tackle the fears that deter people from cycling: traffic speeds, bad driving, hostile roads and junctions, and lorries.  It calls for cycle training to be made widely available to people of all ages.

Please write to your MP and ask him or her to sign Early Day Motion 1431, supporting CTC's Safety in numbers campaign.  We’ve written a letter for you, but you can edit it and personalise it as you wish. 

We've already had over 180 MPs sign EDM 1431.  You can check to see if your MP has already signed before writing to him or her.

An Early Day Motion is a way for MPs to publicly present their support for an issue.  You can learn more from the Commons Factsheet.