That is some atrocious reporting (or at least sub editing) from the granuid. Cycle trips down compared to 2020 is the least surprising thing ever. Looking at the total number of trips vs 2019 is also fairly daft as the overall trip rate has dropped. Indeed as the article itself states, other modes had dropped more vs 2019. The link to the £2bn, of which less than half has been allocated and precious little of that has yet become completed works is shameless clickbait. Not to mention that 2021 was hardly a 'normal' year regarding the various lockdowns.Jdsk wrote: ↑2 Sep 2022, 8:32am Guardian coverage: "Number of people cycling in England falls a year after £2bn plan":
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... r-2bn-plan
Plus the NTS is not really going to be a suitable vehicle in which to pick up such localised changes, there are a great many daily trips in the country, even a full £2bn of quality improvements is not going to shift the national mode share significantly, especially when considering that the spend on infrastructure for motor vehicles over the same period is about 15x-20x greater.
Well it wasn't, and even if it was it was, frankly, a stupid thing to do and the lib dems were incredibly naive to agree to that, it does appear that they might have learnt their lesson on that one. Always worth considering that no other increase in democracy has ever been handled via referendum and I doubt the various reforms that provided the vote to women, younger adults & non landowners would have passed had they been out to referendums of the then electorates.