{"id":1528,"date":"2015-05-01T22:34:50","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T21:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/?p=1528"},"modified":"2015-05-03T22:34:25","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T21:34:25","slug":"derby-politicians-and-cycle-transport-how-do-they-stack-up-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/2015\/05\/derby-politicians-and-cycle-transport-how-do-they-stack-up-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Derby Politicians and Cycle Transport: How do they stack up?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Vote<\/a>For anyone who drives in Derby\u2019s rush hour, or is concerned at the many health issues caused by increasingly sedentary life styles, getting more people to travel by bicycle is one way to alleviate some of the problems associated with both.<\/p>\n

But in Derby the cycle network is very disjointed and does not encourage people to start cycling. Many people who want to cycle are too fearful to ride on the road and cycling levels are suppressed as a consequence.<\/p>\n

Derby needs a properly designed, integrated, cycle network covering the whole city but Derby\u2019s politicians have been short on action to deliver such a network. Following recent debacles such as a velodrome with no cycle access to link it with Derby\u2019s most popular cycle path just 150m away, and the new \u00a311million London Road rail bridge which was supposed to provide cycle paths to open up that route to more cycling but delivered absolutely nothing at all for cyclists; Derby Cycling Group has been trying to get local politicians to take an active interest in cycle transport.<\/p>\n

We have been promoting two national campaigns with local councillors (Space for Cycling) and parliamentary election candidates (Vote Bike) to see what their policies on cycle transport are. We are concerned that now the Velodrome is complete, everyday cycle transport may lose out because politicians may think it\u2019s \u201cjob done\u201d for cycling. But cycle sport and cycle transport are two very different things. The candidate\u2019s and party\u2019s responses are very mixed. See our analysis on the linked document below:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Derby Politicians and Cycle Transport<\/a><\/p>\n

Our Letter to local politicians: April 2015 Letter to political parties<\/a><\/p>\n

The replies from those who chose to engage with us:<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Conservative Party – Matthew Holmes<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Green Party – Philip Hood<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Labour Party -Ranjit Banwait<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For anyone who drives in Derby\u2019s rush hour, or is concerned at the many health issues caused by increasingly sedentary life styles, getting more people to travel by bicycle is one way to alleviate some of the problems associated with both. But in Derby the cycle network is very disjointed and does not encourage people… Continue reading Derby Politicians and Cycle Transport: How do they stack up?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaigning","category-space4cycling","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1528"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1541,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1528\/revisions\/1541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/derbycyclinggroup.org.uk\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}