Cities Fit For Cycling

CTC, the UK’s largest cycling charity, inspires and helps people to cycle and keep cycling, whatever kind of cycling they do or would like to do. Over a century’s experience tells us that cycling is more than useful transport; it makes you feel good, gives you a sense of freedom and creates a better environment for everyone. 
 

• We provide expert, practical help and advice.
• We support individuals and communities.
• We protect cyclists’ interests.
• We campaign to make cycling mainstream and to remove the things that stop people cycling.
• We help people develop the confidence and skills to cycle.
• We promote the benefits of cycling to individuals, to society and to the economy.

CTC has strongly supported the Times’s “Cities fit for cycling campaign”, whose manifesto echoes many things which CTC has called for over many years.  CTC’s views and briefing materials on various cycle safety topics can be found on the pages linked from www.ctc.org.uk/safety.

CTC is one of six organisations which supports the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group (APPCG), through its membership of the UK Cycling Alliance.  The other members of UKCA are the Bicycle Association, British Cycling, Cyclenation, the London Cycling Campaign and Sustrans.

UKCA produced an 8-point call to action in advance of today’s debate, which is outlined in a 2-page summary briefing:

There is also a fuller 9-page briefing from CTC, London Cycling Campaign and Cyclenation with additional detail on the actions which UKCA is calling for.

CTC’s Stop Smidsy website provides further information many others cases where drivers have received derisory sentences following convictions for ‘careless’ driving offences or other charges which seriously under-state the gravity of driving which causes danger.