2025-12-21 – Health – www.theguardian.com
Emulating the bike-friendly highways enjoyed by our continental neighbours will take a lot more money and political will
Ever since Team GB’s velodrome successes at the 2008 Olympics, campaigners and government ministers have confidently predicted that Britain is about to become a nation of cyclists. There is just one problem: for the most part, it has not happened.
Apart from a very concentrated spike in bike use during Covid, the level of cycle trips in England has stayed broadly static for years, and things do not appear to be changing.