Those miniature delivery road trains in Utrecht that Bicycle Dutch put up last week? They were already in Labour’s great 1998 transport policy white paper, A New Deal for Transport. We will support local authorities and the haulage industry in the…
Friends of the Earth press release, “Road traffic reduction bill becomes law”, 21 March 1997: Charles Secrett Executive Director of Friends of the Earth said:”This is wonderful news and a momentous occasion in transport history: for the first time…
Stumbling through things from the end of the Major government and start of the Blair government, in the brief period between the end of the big road expansion era and the start of the too afraid of being accused of waging war on motorists to say o…
from that brief moment at the end of the Major government when front benchers on both sides were both happy to make the sort of statements that would today have the tabloids frothing about anti-car militancy. Hansard, 10 June 1996. Note also the d…
Questions to the Secretary of State for Transport about Cyclists, Hansard 13 January 1997. Mrs Gwyneth Dunwoody (Crewe and Nantwich)Would it not be a good way of ensuring that more mothers were confident about allowing their children to ride to sc…
From the Good Health debate, Hansard, 20 July 1990. Sir George Young (Ealing Acton)Yes, but there is no point in installing cycle tracks if all that happens is that motorists park in them, which is what tends to happen in London. I am all in favou…
This, in the 16 November 1990 Road Safety debate made me giggle. Mr Roger King (Birmingham, Northfield)As a car driver, I am aware of the role of cyclists in moving about our cities. Many courier companies in London are now using cyclists and they…
Road Safety debate, from Hansard, 16 November 1990. Mr Anthony Steen (South Hams)My hon. Friend mentioned cycling. Great progress has been made in our major cities to provide for cyclists. I think that about 90,000 cyclists come into London every …
Still looking into the Thatcher government’s position on cycling. First, this, from Cycling Policy in the UK by Laura Golbuff and Rachel Aldred of the UEL Sustainable Mobilities Research Group: Also in 1977, the Labour Government???s Transport Whi…