On Saturday 29 January the Government will introduce new rules to the Highway Code. The changes should make our roads safer for everyone, but they won’t be effective unless all road users are made aware of them. That’s where you come in.
Thousands of people backed our campaigning for these changes in 2020 but now we need your help once again, to take them from the rule book to the road. Please follow and engage with our messaging on social media – you can find Cycling UK on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

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Carlton Reid 24/2/22
Cars can be convenient, but they are also incredibly costly, both to owners and society in general. New academic research has calculated that the lifetime cost of a small car—such as an Opel Corsa—is about $689,000, of which society pays $275,000. (A Mercedes GLC costs $1+m over an owner’s lifetime.) 

Gwyn Topham
Motorists will have to pay by the mile to make up a £35bn tax shortfall that will arise from the shift to electric vehicles, MPs have warned, calling on the government to act urgently to bring in a national road pricing scheme.
The cross-party Commons transport select committee said it saw “no viable alternative” to road pricing and work should start immediately on creating a replacement for fuel duty before it dwindled away with the transition.
Without urgent reform of motoring taxation, the UK would face an under-resourced and congested future, the committee said. New petrol and diesel vehicles will be banned from sale from 2030, as part of the governments 2050 net zero plans, losing the Treasury roughly £28bn in fuel duty and £7bn in vehicle excise duty, under current tax rules.

Eleanor Salter