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Making sure that cycling continues to stay on the right rails

Cycling England may be no more but its former chair, Phillip Darnton, remains actively involved in the promotion of cycling through his leadership of the Cycle Rail Working Group, the function of which he explains to Rik Thomas

Rik Thomas
26 October 2012
Phillip Darnton, chair of the Cycle-Rail Working Group and former chair of Cycling England
Phillip Darnton, chair of the Cycle-Rail Working Group and former chair of Cycling England
Transport minister Norman Baker must take a lot of the credit for the ongoing work to encourage 
more people to cycle to and from railway stations, Phillip Darnton says
Transport minister Norman Baker must take a lot of the credit for the ongoing work to encourage more people to cycle to and from railway stations, Phillip Darnton says
A growing body of information about best practice is now available to anyone interested in boosting cycling numbers to and from railway stations, thanks in part to the CRWG
A growing body of information about best practice is now available to anyone interested in boosting cycling numbers to and from railway stations, thanks in part to the CRWG

 

“WHAT’S?IN a name?” Shakespeare famously asked. Well, according to Phillip Darnton, chair of the rail industry’s Cycle Rail Working Group and former chair of the Government’s now-defunct advisory body Cycling England, concurring with the Bard of Avon, the answer is not a great deal. “There used to be a group called the Cycle Rail Integration Team (CRIT), which I chaired, which was set up in 2007 by the then transport minister Tom Harris,” Darnton says,...

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