Cycle Training

Cycle Digest - Spring 2000

Up Hill for cycle training

At their conference on 2nd December in York the Road Danger Reduction Forum launched their call on the government to set aside a fund of £10M specifically for local authorities to spend on cycle training, and for the establishment of a national standard for cycling instructors. Ken Spence of the RDRF repeated this call on 13th January following the launch of the School Travel Advisory Group report.
Keith Hill the Transport Minister said the government will be encouraging local authorities to develop cycling training on a much larger scale than is happening at present as part of their local transport plans, however he was not sure that making money available especially for cycling training was a practical proposition.
Ken Spence said he feared that relying on local authorities to come up with good schemes was not going to happen - the Centre for Alternative and Sustainable Transport at the University of Stafford surveyed local authorities and found that only 15% were prepared to make on-road training available for upper primary children who wish to cycle. Keith Hill photo