2021 Manifesto FINAL DRAFT - Flipbook - Page 44
• Prioritise ensuring good local and regional transport links,
such as main roads and local train services.
• Develop a long-term plan to increase walking and cycling,
including how to integrate them with public transport and how to
incentivise and reward them over car use.
• Prioritise both making our streets much more friendly to
walking and cycling and creating a high-quality, joined-up
regional cycle route network. Cycling will be considered at the
very start of all new plans for the area.
• Support the recommendations of the Cycle Charter, produce a
costed plan and lobby government for increased cycle
funding for at least £10 per person per year in the West
Midlands (aspiring to a medium-term target for £20 a year) and
ensure that at least 5% of all trips in the region are made by
bicycle by 2023.
• Promote a ‘vision-zero’ approach to planning, to minimise
danger to cyclists and walkers.
• Work with the housing sector to ensure new homes and
developments have safe cycle storage facilities and ready
access to the cycle network.
• Work with partners, schools and workplaces to encourage and
fund programmes that get people walking to work and
school, leave the car at home, especially for the shortest
journeys.
• Appoint walking and cycling champions who will promote the
interests of pedestrians and cyclists across the West Midlands.
• Work with local councils to extend 20mph speed limits to all
residential roads where people are in favour.
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