A cycling strategy for Bradford

Cycle Bradford launched a draft proposal for an over arching cycling strategy for the district this week.

The strategy itself is broken into 5 areas:

• AP1 Support for existing local cycling and associated activity strategies and partner-led development plans
• AP2 Communication and Promotion of Cycling in Bradford
• AP3 Bradford’s Cycling Infrastructure
• AP4 Cycling Economics and Funding
• AP5 Cycle Training, Education, Enterprise and Community Support

What I think is great about this is that it's pretty comprehensive, and covers most aspects of life, not just cycling, in the district.

There was some press coverage in Telegraph and Argus; the comments were interesting. Most strikingly for me was the way it was assumed that this was a council initiative, which it clearly is not! And although there is much negativity in the comments, it's quite easy to pick out the themes and issues that each of the comments address, and that should give us something to work on in achieving the aims of the strategy - better cycling for all!