Support

Representation ID: 1074

Received: 09/03/2021

Respondent: Birkbeck, University of London

This is all vey positive and exciting. I would add only two comments:

- First, encouraging ride sharing, while a good-sounding idea in principle, comes with severe and under-addressed safety issues that disproportionately affect female users. This is not just an issue in this document or in this region - it is a policy that for many years has been proposed, mainly by men, as a viable solution for reducing road use.

- Second, local topography means that unless e-bike stabling (mentioned in the document) and subsidy for e-bike purchase/hire is actively promoted, cycling is going to be a non-starter, no matter how much provision is made for cycle ways. There are just too few places in the district that can be connected by bike that do ot include hills too steep and long to put off all but the most committed cyclists.