At transport questions, Grant Shapps is asked by Tory MP Eddie Hughes to also commit to arguing for HS2 to go ahead. Shapps doesn't bite but says “he won’t have to wait very long”.
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In the meantime, junior transport minister Nusrat Ghani seems to have accused a Labour MP of "talking buses down", which is a new one on me.
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At transport questions, junior transport minister George Freeman is asked successive questions about cycling from Labour MPs Feryal Clark and Matt Rodda. Freeman insists the govt will double cycling (and walking) in this parliament - but has no real explanation as to how....
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As Clark tells him, for such an expansion UK probably need spends on cycling of more than £15 per person per year, and we're nowhere near that. Freeman tells her "we have a cycling prime minister", and things will be done. I've got to say it's not hugely convincing.
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There are, some say, big plans on cycling being mulled inside No 10. But it has to be said, based on this Q&A session, the current DfT line-up of ministers don't sound like they really understand the issue.
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All that said, shout out to junior DfT minister Paul Maynard for elegantly evading a question on HS2 by saying he always reads newspapers backwards from the sports section, "and so I haven't got to the HS2 stories yet".
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My wife did a bikeability course. Primary focus was 'how to avoid being killed by a car' which isn't a great sell for cycling as a choice for urban transport.
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Bikeability currently is like teaching someone to ski and then expecting them to do that down a mountain bike trail in summer
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Whilst being shot at by snipers.
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However long-term if every single Year2 child did mandatory cycling off-road right now, then every single Year6 on road then everyone taking a driving test would have cycled which also would be a great step forward.
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