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"We spend a lot of money on cycle training", he pointed out, "yet the proportion of children cycling to school in London has fallen".Compare and contrast with the Netherlands where Dutch kids (and especially teenagers) seem to have been granted massively more independence than their UK counterparts, in part thanks to safe, easy-to-use bike infrastructure. Still, I think Gilligan's admission is important in itself - it is the first time I've heard a senior political figure (if that's a fair description?) admit that the policies of encouraging children to cycle to school in London and the rest of the UK have largely failed due to lack of safe routes to schools.
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http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/londons-cycling-commissioner-sets-out.html
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