Cycle Safety

10,000 safety lenses for lorry drivers distributed and new ad campaign launched to help cut collisions between cyclists and goods vehicles.

This leaflet is aimed at path providers, whether they are local authorities, statutory bodies or private landowners. For nearly 30 years, Sustrans has been building paths to the highest possible standards, giving a wide variety of users sustainable access to the countryside and to our towns and cities. The National Cycle Network (NCN), Sustrans' flagship project, offers safe routes for non-motorised transport. Sustrans and its partners have been working for some years to make the NCN more accessible to disabled people working for some years to remove and there are now considerable lengths of traffic free route that are without access barriers. This is to the benefit of everyone, but particularly wheelchair and electric scooter users. Since 1 October 2004, however, removal of such barriers and improvements to paths to make them accessible to everyone is no longer voluntary. The new elements of the Disability Discrimination Act make the provision of easy access compulsory. This leaflet sets out the terms of the act, offers guidance on how to decide if a path is genuinely open to all and the measures you need to take to comply with the act. This guide does not intend to provide information for disabled horse riders. For horses and the National Cycle Network, see the information in ‘The National Cycle Network and Public Rights of Way’, Sustrans information sheet FF27.

Safe Routes to Stations projects enable more passengers to walk and cycle to railway stations. This is achieved through the provision of safe, direct routes, making changes to the highway to reduce traffic speeds and volumes, re-allocating road space and revising station approaches in favour of pedestrians and cyclists. Safe Routes to Stations projects are, of necessity, co-operative ventures involving local authorities, Train Operating Companies (TOCs), and Network Rail.