“Demonising cyclists is pointless,” says Chief Scientist at Transport lab – Cycle Industry News
Mark Sutton 18 August 2022
The Chief Scientist at the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory has written that “demonising cyclists is pointless” in response to current headlines related to comments made by the Transport Minister Grant Shapps.
Shapps yesterday was quoted by the Daily Mail as having proposed insurance and licensing for cyclists, only for the comments to later be retracted somewhat in a piece the appeared in The Times.
“I’m a keen cyclist, I’m very proud of the big expansion in the number of miles being cycled. I’m not attracted to the bureaucracy of registration plates. That would go too far,” Shapps said in the Times, clarifying earlier comments.
