Active Travel England commissioner

CyclingSid

Moderator
Hero Member

Posts: 1935

Hockley viaduct

Active Travel England commissioner

« on: January 22, 2022, 16:06:29 »

Chris Boardman has been appointed interim commissioner of Active Travel England, based in York.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-60092864

£5.5 million has been allocated for local cycling and walking schemes including £300k for e-cargo bike schemes; a further £3 million has been allocated for cycle parking at 23 train stations and dedicated cycle routes to five.

https://www.cyclinguk.org/news/chris-boardman-heads-active-travel-england

As usual they appear to have things back to front, get the "dedicated cycle routes" to stations in first, because people will not risk their necks to get to "cycle parking at 23 train stations". Plus £3 million get you far to the station(s).

Words from the man himself

https://twitter.com/Chris_Boardman


	Logged

ChrisB

Transport Scholar
Hero Member

Posts: 12360

Re: Active Travel England commissioner

« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2022, 20:52:31 »

Wonder how long he’ll last before resigmimg because he’s frustrated with Government?


	Logged

CyclingSid

Moderator
Hero Member

Posts: 1935

Hockley viaduct

Re: Active Travel England commissioner

« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2022, 09:39:52 »

Might be the other way round as he is a person who tend to say as he finds, so not one to toe a party line. No fool so probably very aware of what he is stepping into, but has obviously decided to give it a go. Won't have the same supportive environment that I think he has had in Greater Manchester.


	Logged

Richard Fairhurst

Global Moderator
Hero Member

Posts: 1209

Re: Active Travel England commissioner

« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2022, 12:11:20 »

GM will be quite good training, I think. The experience there seemed to be that the "centre" was keen but that the metro boroughs were in some cases more resistant. That'll be the case here too - e.g. Oxfordshire about to sign off £1.2m on paint-only cycle lanes, which is exactly what central Government guidance say they shouldn't do.


	Logged

Do you have something you would like to add to this thread, or would you like to raise a new question at the Coffee Shop? Please [register] (it is free) if you have not done so before, or login (at the top of this page) if you already have an account - we would love to read what you have to say!

You can find out more about how this forum works [here] - that will link you to a copy of the forum agreement that you can read before you join, and tell you very much more about how we operate. We are an independent forum, provided and run by customers of Great Western Railway, for customers of Great Western Railway and we welcome railway professionals as members too, in either a personal or official capacity. Views expressed in posts are not necessarily the views of the operators of the forum.

As well as posting messages onto existing threads, and starting new subjects, members can communicate with each other through personal messages if they wish. And once members have made a certain number of posts, they will automatically be admitted to the "frequent posters club", where subjects not-for-public-domain are discussed; anything from the occasional rant to meetups we may be having ...

Pages: [1]

« previous next »