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.

A little girl rides her bike out of a bike parking lot at the beach and onto a cycle path.
Two young girls ride home from school using a cycle path. Other children and parents stand and talk by their bikes on the footpath in the background.

Why I joined the Cycling Embassy...

“I'm a reluctant cyclist but would really like to have better cycle provision which you don't have to be a stubborn, bloody-minded and assertive vehicular rider to use!”
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Good Cycling Facility of the Week

Cycle-only filter, Delft, The Netherlands
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