A Chicken and Egg Situation

Episode five and things are moving fast, or so it seems. But is active travel in the UK in a chicken and egg situation? The current government advice is "cycle or walk if you can" meaning more people than ever are interested; but two weeks later, apart from a few select councils, there's barely any infrastructure for the potentially huge increase of people on bikes, and traffic is returning. Councils claim they still don't even know how they will get their hands on the £250m emergency funding.

Cycling advocates know that if you build it, they will come, but are councils building things quick enough? We'll explore a variety of things that need to happen very quickly if we are to realise the UK's golden age for cycling, speaking with Phillip Darnton, Chair of The Bicycle Association, Cllr Adam Clarke, Deputy Mayor of Leicester and Dr Jonathan Kelly from St Bart's NHS Trust. Ned also, for one day only, pretended he had a job and commuted into central London, bringing us with him.

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