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RRS Discovery and Dundee City Centre (public domain, pic credit PlutosAcademy)Dundee City Council wants cyclists to help shape strategy
Dundee City Council is inviting cyclists, campaign groups and business owners to a meeting next Monday to help formulate its cycling strategy.
The event, at 14 City Square, starts at 6.30pm on Monday 9 March and could be the first of a series of regular meetings to inform the development of cycling in Scotland’s fourth largest city.
Will Dawson, city development committee convener at Dundee City Council, said: “We understand the importance of cycling as a regular form of travel and exercise for many people.
“We are keen to hear from cyclists about the facilities, attitudes and issues surrounding their experiences of using their bikes in Dundee and hope to be able to develop that into a framework for maintaining and improving of all aspects of cycling in the city.”
According to the council, Monday’s meeting will help shape its forthcoming cycling strategy document, and it has set up a dedicated email address, cycling [at] dundeecity.gov.uk, to allow people to provide feedback afterwards.
cycling [at] dundeecity.gov.uk, to allow people to provide feedback afterwards. Cycling Scotland’s Annual Monitoring Report, published this week, shows that 4.3 per cent of adults in Dundee City regularly travelled to work by bike in 2013, against a national average of 2.3 per cent. http://www.cyclingscotland.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/Annual-Cycling-Monitoring-Report-2015-v2.0.pdf For 2008-10, Dundee City had the lowest levels in Scotland of children who normally cycle to school of any of Scotland’s 32 local authority areas, at 0.7 per cent. That figure has more than quadrupled to stand at 3.1 per cent in 2013." target="_blank">Cycling Scotland’s Annual Monitoring Report, published this week, shows that 4.3 per cent of adults in Dundee City regularly travelled to work by bike in 2013, against a national average of 2.3 per cent.
For 2008-10, Dundee City had the lowest levels in Scotland of children who normally cycle to school of any of Scotland’s 32 local authority areas, at 0.7 per cent.
That figure has more than quadrupled since then to stand at 3.1 per cent in 2013.
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I wonder if they will take any notice of what the attendees say?
I served on the "cycling consultation forum" for Leeds council, and by the time I left Leeds, they had ignored every single recommendation made in the forum, and continue to this day to institute major changes to the road network without even letting anyone in the forum know about it first (never mind noting their answers).
Leeds compares with Dundee as being a city of significant size, with a very low cycling modal share and practically no provision at all for bikes. Cycling to school is particularly low in both locations.
Dundee bike riders beware! This may be an exercise in pretending to listen, in order to meet some sort of artificial requirement of qualifying for some sort of central funding.
The elected councillors and the highways engineers probably are no more interested in you and your opinion or safety than they were a year ago, five years ago or ten years ago... etc etc.
This statement can probably be generalised to apply to very many UK towns and cities.