The UK’s cycling infrastructure is especially hostile to women – and it is time we looked at it again. In Paris and Lisbon, the number of female cyclists has increased with recent investment in protected bike lanes and other measures. Interventions to get women cycling often focus on building confidence, rather than designing infrastructure differently. Instead, we need to build cycling infrastructure that is explicitly feminist, informed by diverse and representative viewpoints. But it includes no significant analysis of the gender (or other) inequalities that inform our existing cycling infrastructure, or how to take the needs of different groups into account.

Source: The Guardian March 26, 2021 06:56 UTC