Cycling APPG meeting with David Cameron

My colleagues on the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group met the Prime Minister this week to discuss cycling safety as a result of the tragic and avoidable deaths of cyclists.

The Prime Minister expressed his concern and agreed to ask the Secretary of State for Transport to look further at measures to make roads safer for cyclists. These included looking at the evidence from other world cities which have some form of lorry ban, to staggered light phasing at junctions, design improvements for construction trade vehicles, improved enforcement of mandatory lorry safety features and improvements to roads and junctions to make them safer for cyclists and pedestrians.

As Vice Chair of the Group, and a cyclist myself, I was delighted we secured this meeting and look forward to a further meeting with the Transport Secretary.