Cycling Related Questions for your MP

[sheddy]

If you had the opportunity to meet with your MP (and lets not leave out the other candidates) what cycling issues would you bend their ears about ?

 

[Markymark]

I'd rather talk about crime and school places given my MP's ears as that's more pressing to me than more painted roads.

 

[mjr]

I'd ask why they're dragging their feet about issuing mandatory design manuals for cycling infrastructure. Decades after central government realised they needed to issue standards for motoring else some councils would keep building dangerous rubbish, they still refuse to accept the same applies to other road users... so people keep being sacrificed to give most space to the motorised.

 

[Turbo Rider]

I'd ask them to pain everything fluorescent yellow so that black could become the new high viz

 

[mjr]

Other than Local Transport Notes and the various bits of legislation you mean?

Notes which no council obeys in full, as far as I've seen. There's always an excuse, some reason they "can't go all the way for cycling this time" or whatever that notorious phrase was when they were nicking £400,000+ of cycling money to make the Catholic Church junction in Cambridge safer for coaches.

What legislation? The LTNs are guidance not law, so they are ignored with impunity, just like the old motoring guidance.

 

[Drago]

I'd ask them to mend some pot holes. Are we a developed country or not?

 

[mjr]

"Local transport notes summarise the latest and most important ideas about traffic management issues and provide guidance for local authorities" says https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/local-transport-notes - is Guru by your name a misnomer then?

 

[Drago]

Here we go...

 

[mjr]

Sorry. What I mean is it doesn't matter much what statute says if councils and DfT and so on all treat it as guidance.

 

[sheddy]

Bump

 

[glasgowcyclist]

Bump

I hope you're alright. How's the bike?

GC