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“Camden Labour wants everyone – regardless of their background and ability – to have the choice of safe cycling in our borough. We are committed to further increasing protected space on our main road network, and providing a borough-wide calmer ‘secondary cycle route network’ so that zero-carbon, non-polluting personal travel is an easy everyday option, not an act of bravery. We are also improving walking and wheeling connectivity throughout the borough. This will help Camden to meet carbon reduction targets. Ongoing funding constraints may prove a challenge in the coming years, but we are actively looking at other potential funding streams.”

Read the full statement from Cllr Adam Harrison.

“Camden Green Party and our candidates fully support the proposals from Camden Cycling Campaign for specific measures that the council can be held to account over in the next four years to make our streets better and safer for walking and cycling. If elected we will work hard to push for more ambitious plans from Labour, and to scrutinise and challenge the council to achieve these goals without delay. And we will work to push the Mayor of London to back up our work with bold policies such as smarter, fairer road charging across the city. We know that we have very little time left to cut carbon emissions and prevent runaway climate change, and that every day our residents have their health and wellbeing harmed by polluted, dangerous and unwelcoming streets that discourage walking and cycling. Our vision of a cleaner and fairer borough can only be achieved with the very highest ambition and with councillors who are willing to be bold and push hard for a better environment for everyone.”

If elected, Camden Liberal Democrats support creating a high quality cycling network in Camden, with the aim of making cycling accessible for as many people as possible. We will encourage the development of cycling schemes by working with local communities to ensure high levels of popular support. We will also seek to address the shortage of secure cycling storage in the borough, by funding additional on-street cycle hangars and also by working with local residents, community organisations and businesses to identify other solutions.