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Reference:
2024/3965
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Question by:
Caroline Russell
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Meeting date:
21 November 2024
In the January 2024 report, ‘What stops women cycling in London?’, the London Cycling Campaign Women’s Network, found that: “‘Get off the road’ was by far the most common form of verbal abuse shouted at women cycling… This abuse often happened on roads with no cycle lanes when women take ‘primary position’ in the middle of the traffic lane.[...] Drivers also responded with ‘punishment passes’, tailgating and even deliberately hitting women with their vehicles.” In order to reduce this abuse, violence and the resultant reduction in women cycling, London Cycling Campaign Women’s Network has asked if you will implement a...