If you are an employer investing in cycle stands for your employees then you should get behind a new campaign to open up forgotten cycle highways.
These forgotten 1930s cycle highways could be near your location, and offer your employees greater options to get into work, while getting some exercise in in the process.
Many of these cycle highways were built in collaboration with the Dutch Government, and are similar to the cycle paths you will see there. They are set back from the main road and offer much safer, less congested routes for cyclists. All pretty impressive if you consider these were developed long before the use of motor vehicles became ubiquitous.
They have fallen off the radar as they were built so long ago, and have fallen into disrepair. Many of them aren’t listed on Google Street View, despite the discovery of one which had fallen into disuse, but a Google street view car, according to campaigners.
There is now a Kickstarter campaign to get these cycle highways back into use. It will require some significant investment as rebuilding a junction an cost as much as £1million. However the Kickstarter campaign is in order to pay for consultation fees with urban planners to find out just what needs to be done and how much it will cost.
Once this is sorted out, it is the hope of the campaigners that they will be able to get the Department for Transport to pay for the rest. After all, it was the Ministry of Transport who introduced the cycle lanes in the first place.