The Leeds Cycling Starts Here Strategy represents a city-wide partnership approach to developing and delivering improved opportunities for everyone to cycle.
Our aims
1. Make cycling a natural everyday choice.
2. Improve safety, convenience for cycling and health and wellbeing across the city.
3. Improve environmental sustainability, better air quality and reduce pollution of all types.
Develop a thriving and active cycling city
Objectives
1. Enable everyone to participate in cycling activities targeting women, children, BME groups and peopel with disabilities.
2. Ensure every school pupil has the opportunity to receive cycle training, and that adults too can access training support.
3. Support the development and participation in sports cycling at all skill levels.
4. Support the development of cycle clubs and social cycling groups.
5. Increase access to cycling with support for bike loan and recycle schemes.
6. Support cycling focused community initiatives and events.
7. Support people to become physically active.
8. Practice integrated transport planning for livable places that is inclusive of both cycling and walking.
Promote a cycle friendly city
1. Promote cycling for transport, sport and recreation.
2. Promote good road safety behaviours, considerate cycling , and driver awareness.
3. Increase awareness of the widerbenefits of cycling to peoples’ mobility and wellbeing.
4. Build on the city’s reputation for staging major sporting, cycling and mass participation events.
5. Develop, promote and support events for young people.
6. Make effective use of social media and marketing to promote and grow cycling.
7. Embed a positive cycling and walking culture in alleducational establishments.
Build a great city for cycling
1. Make the city centre and local centres cycle friendly.
2. Connect educational establishments to cycle networks.
3. Embed provision for cycling in the planning system and urban design processes to ensure all future school, workplace and residential developments are cycle friendly.
4. Provide for cycling in the highways network as part of planned development and maintenance opportunities.
5. Encourage employers to provide cycling facilities at work.
6. Complete the Leeds Cycle Network incorporating the six planned Superhighways and including Leeds Orbital Route.
7. Increase the number of leisure routes for cyclists and open our parks to cyclists.
8. Support the delivery of Cycle Hubs and Training Centres Citywide. including creating a cycle leisure park.
9. Support the development of traffic-free and off road cycling circuits.
