Lancashire to spend half a million to reduce cycling casualties in danger spots

£500,000 is a pathetic sum of money. We all know it will be spent on nothing more than paint and signs.

Sadly the cycling provision in this country is woeful; cycle lanes that are used as street parking. and end just before junctions just as you really need that bit of space to name a couple of examples. The cycle path in the middle of a foot path is one of my pet hates.

I think a lot of it is an after thought and only there to meet some government metric about sustainable transport policy implementation and the like.

However there are some good bits so it's not all bad. Usually where segregated cycle paths have been put in for families and particularly young children to use without running the risk of fast moving traffic.

But for those of use who like to move along a bit, the best way is pick routes that keep off the main trunk roads, even if it means adding a couple of miles to your daily commute.

if its anything like the normal cycle stuff they do they will be wasting money.
the only solutions they are bothered about are shared or cheap!!!

I live in Lancashire and it's nice to know that our re-election-seeking nonce-ocrats are going to plan for future road improvements. But I'd prefer it if they didn't all want foreign companies to inject toxic, radio-active chemicals into my water supply in order to pump out an economically insignificant amount of methane despite the whole US "shale revolution" going tits-up because fracking is a pissing loss at anything below $120 a barrel.

But as long as they let Cyril Smith and Greville Janner rest in peace it's all good.