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Women will only cycle en masse if local authorities deliver more segregated cycle lanes

Rachel Smith - Transport Panner
03 June 2011
Rachel Smith was based in Exeter but is now a principal transport planner in Brisbane. Her Cycling Super Highways toolkit and study tour received financial support from the 2008 Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management Janet Brash Memorial Scholarship.
Rachel Smith was based in Exeter but is now a principal transport planner in Brisbane. Her Cycling Super Highways toolkit and study tour received financial support from the 2008 Australian Institute of Traffic Planning and Management Janet Brash Memorial Scholarship.

 

A colleague recently told me that she was selling her bike. She likes the idea of cycling and has no actual hostility towards her bicycle; it’s just, as she says, “Our roads are too dangerous for females”. I’m a transport planner based in Australia but I suspect my colleague’s feelings are similar to those of many women in the UK. It seems that London may have a similar problem, given that Transport for London’s recent Travel in London report found that the...

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