Sentence examples for cycling budget from inspiring English sources
The report says a cycling budget of £10 a head of population by 2020 is "essential to fund long-term development of cycling infrastructure and to make our roads safer for cycling".
It calls for a cycling budget worth at least £10 per person per year, rising to £20, and it says the government should aim to get the number of journeys made by bike up to 10% by 2025 (from 2% now - in the Netherlands it's 30%).
Mr Gilligan said: "We've got a cycling budget of £913m over 10 years and it includes £100m to refit junctions.
It is a significant amount but the bulk of British Cycling's budget comes from the National Lottery via its Sport England grant and the Olympic team funding, which together amount to over £60m per four-year funding cycle.
It seemed as if cycle campaigning was finally taking off south of the border and cyclists' voices were being heard, while here in Scotland the cycling and walking budget was actually declining despite the government's target of 10% of journeys being undertaken on a bike by 2020.
The Russian-based Katusha Team is another of cycling's big-budget outfits, but its 2014 plans have been slightly messed up by Joaquim Rodriguez's crash at the Giro.
It was hoped that the strategy would lead to a dedicated budget for cycling for the first time — a key demand of The Times's Cities fit for Cycling campaign.
Where Edinburgh stands alone is that its city council is committing a percentage of its transport budget to cycling - starting from 5% in 2012 and rising 1% each year to 10%.
She says that TfL's budget for cycling over the next decade, which works out to around £11 per person per year, is half of what some cities in the Netherlands and Denmark spend.
But shadow transport secretary Maria Eagle said: "No amount of cynical spin from David Cameron will make up for the fact that, immediately on taking office, he axed Cycle England, the Cycle Demonstration Towns scheme and the annual £60m budget to support cycling that he inherited.
