Recommendations
Health Authority
The first step should be to lead by example and improve the situation
in the NHS:
- Encourage walking and cycling to work for health authority and NHS
staff
- Pay generous cycle and walking mileage allowances for business travel
- Provide signage for pedestrian and cycle routes to all NHS sites,
and produce clear information on how to reach NHS sites for pedestrians
and cyclists
- Provide lockers, showers, and secure cycle storage at all NHS sites
- Work with other agencies to reduce transport-related health inequalities
- Work with local employers to encourage non-car modes of transport
- Support better collection of data on cycling injuries
Local Authorities - County, City, and Districts
- Planning priorities should favour walking and cycling over motor transport
wherever possible
- Tackle the policy and implementation barriers inherent in the City/County
split
- Health impact assessment should be an integral part of the transport
planning process
- Greater public involvement in local decisions - including a consideration
of the cycling needs of current non-cyclists
- Work with police and other agencies to reduce traffic speeds and
volumes in all areas where traffic has a negative impact on health,
the environment and communities
- Provide more secure cycle parking in busy areas, under cover where
possible
- Provide lockers, showers, secure cycle parking, etc for all local
authority staff
- Continue working towards providing an unbroken network of cycle lanes
in the county
- Work with law enforcement agencies to ensure tougher enforcement
of parking regulations where infractions endanger vulnerable road users
eg parking in cycle lanes
General issues
- Improve joint working between local agencies to ensure a fully integrated
approach to transport
- Poor cyclist behaviour should be tackled with a combination of training,
enforcement, and imaginative transport planning reducing the potential
for conflicts
- There should be greater police involvement in setting and enforcement
of speed limits
- Bus and taxi driver cyclist awareness training should be encouraged
- Perform regular monitoring of the effectiveness and health impact
of interventions to increase cycling
National
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