changes to active travel yes please
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also it's 2 billion for Active Travel, not just cycling, but great still.
It's all about the money, The UCI, TDF & Shimano will do whatever it takes to keep people buying all the products in cycling. They wanna sell sell sell even if everyone is locked indoors sans Le Tour. They don't care obviously no one is capable of racing in August, & no fans would live through the heat watching the race outside, we've been had for 2020, the industry, the clubs, Eurosport, NBC, Tubo the cable companies & SIS all have our money.
Hopefully our Aussie Govt will do similar and not drag asses about it.
Another great video Francis, I think the world tour calendar should be postponed this year and come back with vengeance in 2021, don’t think it’ll be safe anywhere in 2020
Francis remember London is not the only city in the UK
Lucky pommy bastards! 0$ for extra cycling infra in Oz, Liability? mate get off the road or else.
Tour de France is the only race that’s supposed to be on this year
you better translate that correctly: "the UK took 2billion what other people worked for money in order to put it into my personal favorite, that's why I like government, stealing for in my favor"
Good news at last!
Thank you for the daily content!!!!!
Francis – are you wearing the Trenta lid in this vid??
24 and scorcher funny .stay safe from Australia
I think all major global sport should be halted for 2020 and just re scheduled for 2021. There is probably a lot of financial loss and deals that had been done for teams with advertising that will suffer. Of course this will take its toll on the survival of companies.
It’s probably the best time for a global reset or a shift into looking at how much people are getting paid in high powered positions. #howmuchmoneydoesoneneed
omg. Someone else that hates food shopping. Even before social distancing I couldn't handle it.
I'd bloody love a bigger shift towards more commuter Cycling infrastructure in the UK 😍😍 baby steps but fingers crossed
I love this news! I cycle to work because its not far and its not hilly. I take my bag in and im lucky to have showers and safe secure bike storage but if i didnt have that i wouldnt bike in, which is a proper shame because the only thing i cant really live without is a shower after being a sweaty mess getting to work.
Posted off bike lanes would be amazing not just being shoehorned onto pavements or tight cycle lanes though i dont mind roads tbh. I just worry that with everyone cycling the etiquette will suffer alot causing more bad PR. I mean peoples etiquette (attitude and politeness) in general is far below par even walking so putting them on a bike or running is just going to make everyone look bad and that's just sad.
Doing great here in Oklahoma, so good in fact, I have been able to get my Wife into cycling 😁
You make a lot of good points! In Italy many people are saying that this season is lost already.
£2billion. Was it written on the side of a bus?
…… or in a country like Denmark. 😘 And very good news for the UK! 👍
Echo your observations over here. Been having some great rides down roads I would normally avoid like the plague, and staying away from our awesome network of trails because they're getting a little congested.
Well I’m hoping the contractors don’t eat the money and give us the same kind of shabby work we’ve been getting. Are these contractors accountable to anybody?
That is great that Rouleur is supporting your wall art, Francis, and one of these days, I should do the same in my apartment with a few large pages of my scrapbook of color photos from motorcycle magazines in the Seventies, with a couple of them being signed by star motocross riders back in the day. So I definitely dig your artful use of these covers, Francis, and I am still a big magazine reader, too, with several active subscriptions. And I enjoyed seeing you and Daisy side-by-side on camera, and yeah, I get that Daisy is wearing Daisy Dukes 🙂
I’d love to think this was the start of a fundamental shift to an integrated transport strategy but I have grave doubts based on the short term is more of this government. Let’s see.
keep smashing the choccy milk, us vegans need the b12! that's what i tell myself anyway
Hi Francis – Thinking of cycling from Windsor to Richmond Park this weekend. Can you recommend a direct route that isn't likely to get us run over by the new found 'freedom' people will have taken from Boris' speech yesterday please? We have found some on Strava but hard to know whether they are decent or not just from the map (I'm crap with maps!). TIA if you reply to this 🙂
Hope your funding does better for cycling than in the US. As for the tour, I could care less, except for the riders and their short windowed careers. Far too much commercial focus on racing. The Indy 500 race is scheduled for August too. No vaccine or positive care solutions. There should be criminal codes for such crass money over lives crap. We humanoids are far worse creatures than we pretend to be. We've structured ourselves with economic systems of living that will take us to the abis. How's that for negativity? Ha! Sorry, just thinking poorly outloud! Cheers!
Very Nice! What camera do you use??
Shamefully I don't see any government truly funding a decent cycling infrastructure and encouraging people to get out of their cars. 1/ We're a small country and land is too valuable. They'd rather cram as many houses on a patch as they can for profit. 2/ We live too fast a paced life. People won't put the extra time into cycling when they can drive. 3/ We haven't got the weather for it. Unless you really want to ride, not many will cycle in the rain and take a second outfit. Possibly need a shower when they arrive, when they can reach for the car keys.
It would also be like turkeys voting for christmas. What government would spend money on cycling to lose money on people using their cars? Where I am, we have a cycle path next to a 60mph road. Children ride along it a curb width away from probable death if they got it a bit wrong. That's not what I call thought for cycling. 3 years ago they built a secondary school nearby, advertising it as a school they wanted the students to cycle/walk to so less vehicles are used for drop off, but then still haven't put in place a safe route for the children to use. The main path to it is next to a 40mph road which was 50mph so is driven at 60mph again with a curb between the children and the traffic. When it rains the road floods and the traffic soaks the path driving through the puddles. I love your optimism Francis, but I'll believe it when i see it.
TDF should be canceled.
1. Great news about the funding – cycling as primary transportation in urban areas would solve many problems – parking, congestion, pollution, sedentary lifestyles, etc.
2. Once the shelter at home restrictions are relaxed to a greater degree, demand for gasoline will eat up the supply in storage and the reduced production will lag, forcing gas prices to increase dramatically, probably within 18 months. A great solution to this will be to ride bicycles as a primary source of transportation.
3. Ebike sales are already experiencing double digit growth. I believe this technology, coupled with the first two factors, will really push the adoption of cycling in urban areas.
I think as well as the investment they need to change the rules about cycling on footpaths, similarly to the current rules in Scotland. I live on the Ashdown Forest where cycling is banned but there are so many wide tracks which would be gravel biking paradise.
Changing the infrastructure could risk making cyclist third class citizens and restricting there perceive rights to use the rodes. If I change the law it would be the best thing however I don't think they have announced that. We could just enforce the highway code if you're in 1.8 meters…
I’m not saying I’m not pleased to hear of any investment in cycling infrastructure but sadly this money is not new, it is part of the 5 year, £5bn bus and cycle fund already announced in February (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/major-boost-for-bus-services-as-pm-outlines-new-vision-for-local-transport, https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2020/may/11/this-could-be-the-time-to-usher-in-a-golden-age-for-cycling-in-britain?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other)
According to a recent Guardian article it’s only £250M ?
I am watching this morning and the bikes they had a section on bikes and the bikes they chose where pitiful, e.g. a bike from Halfords they are the worst bike shop. Cheap bikes are a false economy as I know from experience when I used to have one and I spent more on repairs than it cost me for the bike! The customer assistant in a bike shop said: "You would be cheaper getting a taxi!" Please can you do a section of bikes at £500 and then one that costs £700 and then a £1000. As I think at those price points most people could pay for a bike and could you mention a bike to work scheme that Boris mentioned in his recent statement.
The phrase you're looking for when describing people who use cycling as a means of getting around is 'utility cycling'
It's just words, when or if there is action it could get interesting. The Govt will mustn't be allowed to forget this.
£1.6b just to keep TFL running till September vs £2b for the whole country for basically paths for ‘active travel’. LOL
Your BoJo is a lot smarter than our OrangeHo
I think the investment into cycling is excellent, but I don't like the sound of the presumed liability. Many bad cyclists could use this to their advantage.
Poland put 2 bilion PLN for public television that doesn't have 1080p