link to original articleThe survey was conducted in January. Then the Covid-19 lockdown happened, and with motor traffic levels suddenly at a half-century low, cycling levels grew by more than 300% on some days. This tells us people will cycle when roads feel safer – and we’ve seen people from all walks of life, and of all ages, doing just that. Now road traffic is back, we risk losing all that progress.
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Boris Johnson won’t get his ‘golden age of cycling’ while the roads feel unsafe | Laura Laker | The Guardian
Laura Laker Thu 13 Aug 2020
Instead of spending £27bn on new roads, let’s make existing ones better for the two-thirds of people too scared to cycle
Two-thirds of people in England feel “it is too dangerous for me to cycle on the roads”, according to the latest National Travel Attitudes Survey. That’s two-thirds of people who feel too intimidated to take to two wheels as part of everyday trips, or for leisure – and it’s up from 61% the previous year. Astonishingly, 57% of people who already cycle agreed with the sentiment.