tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941341020445348290.post4250701586245778359..comments2024-01-17T05:15:56.933-08:00Comments on Cycling South Tyneside: 10 commandments to Get Britain CyclingGazza_dhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00648167302912969102noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941341020445348290.post-61607160118681803032013-08-10T08:49:31.103-07:002013-08-10T08:49:31.103-07:00Thanks Roger for your comments. I do think we are ...Thanks Roger for your comments. I do think we are all on the same page in general.<br /><br />It may actually be as you say that your 10 priorities are just brief as you have distilled them down to a sentence each. There are words like "improve" or "expand" where I would have much preferred to have seen stated targets, or calls for mandatory minimums.<br /><br />I think all in the cycling community need to be tough and serious about calling for minimum standards and targets which are measurable.<br /><br />Too often infrastructure and facilities are provided now which ensure that the tick box for provision is completed, but are inadequate for real world use, and provide very poor value for money and return on the investment. <br /><br />If decent resources are to be invested, then money needs to be spent wisely on infrastructure and services which are sensible and fit for purpose. A good example is the Niceway Code, which I am sure has very worthy intentions, but has comprehensively failed to hit the correct target and has been almost universally panned. That is a real shame.<br /><br />In point 2 of my list. Where I say 10%, I that mean where a supermarket for example provides 100 car parking places, there should be a mandatory minimum of 10 secure parking places for bicycles. Too often none is provided. Of course they need to be useable as well.Gazza_dhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00648167302912969102noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3941341020445348290.post-21148084208042017112013-08-10T07:52:24.333-07:002013-08-10T07:52:24.333-07:00Gazza
Thanks for your tweet. I very much like you...Gazza<br /><br />Thanks for your tweet. I very much like your Top 10 list - great stuff.<br /><br />I am bound to agree with it of course! Numbers 3-9 are 100% in line with CTC's own policy script, and although we'd word nos 1, 2 or 10 slightly differently (not least for clarity, e.g. in no 2, "10%" means 10% of what?), there's no real difference between us on any of this.<br /><br />So I'm sorry if you feel CTC's own Top 10 is "a bit wishy washy". I just wonder if this that has more to do with the fact that we were aiming for media-genic brevity rather than policy-oriented thoroughness?<br /><br />Of course, if you want the latter, you need a lot more than just a "Top 10" though! See for instance the really comprehensive listing of policy calls on pp48-61 of the Get Britain cycling report vol 2: http://allpartycycling.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/get-britain-cycling_goodwin-report.pdf. It's VERY much in line with CTC policy!<br /><br />Roger Geffen<br />Campaigns & Policy Director<br />CTC, the national cycling charity<br />roger.geffen@ctc.org.ukRoger Geffenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17994138496401296940noreply@blogger.com