Corin Ashwell 🌍 🌿 🍄🏳️‍⚧️May 21, 2024

Really good reminder for anyone involved in #activeTravel #urbanRenewal #cities that change can come about in the face of opposition by being resolute & that inspired leadership can succeed. #London is almost now a genuine cycling city. Everyday #biking by people from 8-80 is emerging, in big part thanks to the #LondonCyclingCampaign and the #MiniHolland period in particular

https://lcc.org.uk/news/10-years-of-mini-hollands/

10 years of Mini-Hollands - London Cycling Campaign

London Cycling Campaign
mobilitydimarcaFeb 29, 2024

The #miniholland project in #London is shown to produce a tenfold return on investment! For £100m invested, it provided an health economic benefit of £1,056m!

https://www.globalcyclingnetwork.com/general/news/mini-holland-projects-in-london-pay-for-themselves-10-times-over-new-study-finds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214140524000173

#cycling #mobility

'Mini-Holland' projects in London pay for themselves 10 times over, new study finds

Low-traffic infrastructure changes are always controversial, but new research shows the scheme that was conceived in 2013 has produced an increase in cycling and a return on investment

Global Cycling Network
Show threadalways lastJan 20, 2023

2/2 2/ ... but lots of failed bids in London, including #Kingston's #GoCycle #MiniHolland programme, and #Westminster's Oxford Street project

LGC story: https://lgcplus.com/finance/revealed-over-65-of-bids-to-first-round-of-levelling-up-fund-failed-28-11-2022/

Revealed: Over 65% of bids to first round of levelling up fund failed | Local Government Chronicle (LGC)

Over 65% of bids to the first round of the levelling up fund were unsuccessful, LGC analysis of new data shows. The Department for Levelling Up,

Local Government Chronicle (LGC)