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Principles of cycle planning: John Franklin, Manchester, May 2009

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John Franklin’s “Principles of cycle planning” opened the Cycling Futures seminar for cycle planning, design and promotion professionals in Manchester on 29 May 2009. This record sets out the event, the programme and what is known about the paper. This is a record of the paper, not the paper; no complete copy is online.

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The paper at a glance

Title
Principles of cycle planning
Author
John Franklin, listed as Cycling Skills & Safety Consultant
Event
Cycling Futures – Effective Planning for Cyclists, a seminar for cycle planning, design and promotion professionals
Date
Friday 29 May 2009, 10am to 4.30pm
Venue
Manchester Town Hall, Lord Mayor’s Parlour, Albert Square
Hosts
CTC, cyclenation and the Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign, with support from Cycling England
Earlier version
A paper with the same title was given at the pre-conference seminar for local authorities in Oxford, autumn 2007

Attendance was free of charge. The seminar was followed the next day by the Cycling as a Solution conference.

Section 01

The seminar programme

Six papers, in the order the programme listed them:

  1. 1.1

    Principles of cycle planning, John Franklin, Cycling Skills & Safety Consultant

  2. 1.2

    Cycle infrastructure design, Adrian Lord, Arup/Cycling England

  3. 1.3

    Active communities: cycling to a better quality of life, Gemma Bradshaw, Local Government Information Unit

  4. 1.4

    Cycling and local transport plans, Chris Stevenson, Essex County Council

  5. 1.5

    Cycling England professional support, Tony Russell, Cycling England

  6. 1.6

    Cycling promotions, Andy Salkeld, Leicester City Council

Section 02

What the paper covered

The paper treats the bicycle as a vehicle and plans for it on that basis. It deals with the quality of the riding surface, road space and road profiles, and the problems that separate cycle tracks bring with them.

Section 03

‘A great future for the bicycle’

…there is a great future for the bicycle if you make the conditions right. If you make them wrong there isn’t any future.

Ernest Marples, speaking in 1968, as quoted by Sir George Young MP in the House of Commons debate on cycling, 16 October 2014 (Hansard)

The wording above is the one recorded in Hansard. Sir George Young recalled quoting Marples in an adjournment debate on cycling that he initiated on 11 July 1975.

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