Cycling for the Rest of Us

Cycling should be the simplest, easiest and most convenient way to get around in most places in the UK, and yet the reality is that it's not – the roads are busy, and feel unsafe or unpleasant to ride on, and what cycle paths there are seem to take the long way round, or run out just when you need them most.

The Dutch and the Danes have demonstrated that it is easy to provide safe, attractive and efficient routes for cycling, away from fast traffic, which anybody and everybody – men and women, old and young, and rich and poor – want to use.

We at the Cycling Embassy of Great Britain want to see an end to cycling being pushed to the margins; we want to see a network of direct, well-designed, separated cycle routes that are safe even for young children to use.

Two girls riding alongside each other and chatting as they travel
A family riding their bikes on a cycle path in the countryside

Why I joined the Cycling Embassy...

“I want to be able to cycle somewhere new without requiring meticulous route planning to try and avoid busy and dangerous roads. It would also be fantastic to be able to have a greater choice of safe routes to cycle with my novice nephew and niece, rather than effectively being restricted to the (admittedly wonderful) Bristol-to-Bath railway path. ”
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Good Cycling Facility of the Week

Cycle-only filter, Delft, The Netherlands
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