This year’s programme will cover infrastructure design, road safety, policing, training and e-bikes. And it will include a meeting next month with Minster for Active Travel, Guy Opperman, MP. The first session is on 22 January: an online discussion about subsidies for buying bikes, looking at 25 years of the Cycle to Work scheme and alternative models.
Explaining the aims of the APPGCW, organiser Adam Coffman told Velocity: “We’re following the government policy route, looking at things on the Government’s radar like autonomous vehicles [subject of another forthcoming session – check the full programme on the Velocity calendar here].
“We are scrutinising policy and trying to influence it,” Coffman continued. “The autonomous vehicles bill going through parliament is very significant, for example.”
The APPGCW includes about 100 parliamentarians and 70 associate members. Online events are open to view; in person events where space is limited are for members only. For APPGCW membership details, click here for the brochure. To view previous webinars or join a livestream, click here. For more information, email Adam Coffman here.
“I’ve been supporting the All Party Parliamentary Group for 15 years,” Coffman said. “I’ve not lost the burning desire to make things better for people who want to walk or cycle.”
The first event of the year, on cycle subsidies, will include presentations by:
- Chris Last, Chair of the Cycle to Work Alliance
- Lee Kidger, Cycling Industry Advisor (former MD of Raleigh)
- Jonathan Harrison, CEO Association of Cycle Traders
- Phillip Darnton, Chairman Bicycle Association
