This week's Good Cycling Facility is a combination of a protected cycleway along a main road (Lea Bridge Road) and a side road that has been closed to motor traffic, while retaining walking and cyc
This week's Good Cycling Facility is a new bi-directional protected cycleway that has replaced a motor traffic lane around the Stratford gyratory in east London.
This week's Good Facility is a cheap, straightforward intervention to make a road outside a school a safe and pleasant environment for walking and cycling.
Background: Despite the well-recognised benefit for individuals and communities of increased active travel, cycling remains a minority travel mode in many high income countries. Fear of injury is often cited as a reason. Campaigns to promote cycle helmet wear are alleged to contribute to this. However, there is little information on whether head injuries to cyclists are an important cause of death in road travel fatalities, compared with other road users.
This paper analyses Active People Survey data (collected 2011/12 to 2015/16) on 789,196 English adults, providing new information on how a range of socio-demographic factors are associated with utility and leisure cycling. Substantial inequalities are found in relation to gender, age, disability, and ethnicity for both types of cycling. For gender and age, and perhaps for disability in relation to recreational cycling, inequalities are moderated by local cycling prevalence such that English authorities with more cycling see less inequality.
