The final day of Road Safety GB’s online cycling event features a presentation looking at community-led active travel projects from the West Midlands.
The presentation has been prepared by Mitchell Robinson, cycling and walking development officer, Transport for West Midlands (TfWM).
Mitchell has been working within the cycling and walking team at TfWM for the last five years, working on both infrastructure and activation projects across the region.
His main focus has been delivering projects that are small-scale, including the Better Streets Community Fund, Cycle Parking for Organisations scheme and launching social prescribing for cycling and walking across the region.
Mitchell’s presentation will explain how these community-led active travel projects can make a real difference.
It will be available to watch via the event website from 10am today (25 June).
Catch-up at your leisure
The three-week event, titled ‘More cycling, safer cyclists: how can we make it safer for more people to cycle, more often?’, got underway on 7 June.
Since then, 15 sessions have taken place, including a mix of pre-recorded and live presentations, discussions and workshops.
While the event ends today, these sessions will remain available to watch via the event website for the foreseeable future.
Among the most recent to be added is a recording of yesterday’s Question Time session, during which the four panellists talked about issues including the Government’s Cycling & Walking Investment Strategy, cycling infrastructure in the UK, how to get more people to sign up for cycle training – and whether there’s evidence showing it reduces collisions and casualties.
Due to technical difficulties, the live session planned for 23 June – titled A cycle-friendly Wales, transforming places in Wales through 20mph default speed limits and safe and convenient infrastructure – is now being recorded on 28 June and will be available shortly afterwards.
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