Alex Bowden January 3 2020
Local councils will need to make ‘unpopular’ political decisions to convert car drivers into cyclists, according to a councillor in Cumbria.
The Westmorland Gazette reports that there have been complaints of motor traffic holdups after work began on a cycle path on Shap Road, Kendal, and also following similar work on nearby Burton Road.
The comments underneath the Westmorland Gazette article provide further evidence that such decisions are far from universally popular. One person makes the forlorn observation that “we will never uninvent the car.”
However, councillor Phil Dixon, a former cabinet member for health and wellbeing, commended the council for persevering with the work. He said that the adoption of a similarly firm attitude in the Netherlands in the 1970s reaped dividends in later years.
