Please take a few minutes to respond to TfL’s Draft Nine Elms Cycling Strategy. It’s closing at noon on Monday morning, and you need to email comments to NESBDesignforCycling@tfl.gov.uk

The Strategy is in my view really encouraging. Some past Cycling Strategies have tended to waffle on about how wonderful cycling is, without suggesting concrete actions to make cycling feasible for the majority. This one is targeted at mass cycling, and creating a network – using a range of measures, from park routes to segregated infrastructure on main roads – to get us there. I was also very happy to see a Strategy that did not constantly hedge its bets with ‘where feasible’ and ‘where practical’.

At a time when much of the news for cycling has been bad, anyone who wants improvements should encourage TfL when they get it right as well as criticising when they get it wrong.

Here is my brief response; thanks to Charlie Holland for two points that I have incorporated here.