Join our 2025 campaigners conference on Feb 1st 2025 in Leicester. Our packed programme will explore what we as Labour party members, councillors and MPs can do to ensure that Active travel changes in the UK helps deliver on Labour’s five missions.
Labour Cycles is a constituted community of Labour members committed to ensuring that everyone has the ability to be involved in active travel.
We believe our communities need:
Transport policy should help deliver fairer, green streets and improve public health
Protected cycle infrastructure enables older people, the disabled, the young and more women to cycle daily
Labour needs to make a strong commitment and deliver on active travel improvements across the UK.
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Labour Walks and Cycles has an ambitious new committee dedicated to promote active travel within the Labour Party, supporting councillors delivering local active travel schemes and lobbying the government to give a greater priority to walking, wheeling and scooting: Chair:…
How will a new Labour government, Mayors & Councils work together to deliver active travel? This was the question we explored at Labour’s 2024 Annual Conference in Liverpool. Over three days we met with hundreds of MPs, Mayors, Councillors and…
Richard Leeming, Southwark Councillor It’s clear that the local elections in May 2024 were a triumph for the Labour Party. But digging beneath the headlines to look at what the results mean for active travel three further conclusions can be…
‘Walking, wheeling and cycling plays an essential part in delivering the Government’s missions, including growing our economy, accelerating to net zero, and building an NHS fit for the future by preventing ill health and tackling air pollution.’
“We’ve been hearing loud and clear from residents in Lambeth that how we use our public spaces needs to change to make people’s lives better and to address the climate crisis.
In 2021 we held a Citizen’s Assembly where people told us they wanted it to be easier to walk, cycle, and wheel around Lambeth. People said they wanted more space for socialising, including safe space for children to run and play, and more greenery on the streets.”
