APPGCW begins 2024 programme
The All Party Parliamentary Group for Cycling and Walking is kicking off a season of talks and events.
This year's programme will cover infrastructure design, road safety, policing, training and e-bikes. And it will include a meeting next month with Minster for Active Travel, Guy Opperman, MP. The first session is on 22 January: an online discussion about subsidies for buying bikes, looking at 25 years of the Cycle to Work scheme and alternative models.
Explaining the aims of the APPGCW, organiser Adam Coffman told
Velocity: "We're following the government policy route, looking at things on the Government's radar like autonomous vehicles [subject of another forthcoming session - check the
full programme on the Velocity calendar here].
"We are scrutinising policy and trying to influence it," Coffman continued. "The autonomous vehicles bill going through parliament is very significant, for example."
"I've been supporting the All Party Parliamentary Group for 15 years," Coffman said. "I've not lost the burning desire to make things better for people who want to walk or cycle."
The first event of the year, on cycle subsidies, will include presentations by:
- Chris Last, Chair of the Cycle to Work Alliance
- Lee Kidger, Cycling Industry Advisor (former MD of Raleigh)
- Jonathan Harrison, CEO Association of Cycle Traders
- Phillip Darnton, Chairman Bicycle Association
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