Funding for cycling to fall off a cliff edge in April, as Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy could take 18 months to complete

"If I was a cycle planner and I wasn't in one of those eight cities"

Are there people who believe that employing a cycle planner is something that cities do?

I was under the impression that most cities employ no such person and have no such post. Most regional highways departments do not employ any design engineers who ride bikes or know anything whatsoever about the needs of bike riders.

Unlike ivory-tower London with its useless blue paint lanes, most places in the UK have no provisions for cycling at all, not even useless road features pretending to be provisions for cycling. In some cities (such as Leeds), the much-trumpeted "cycling revolution" new infrastructure (typically consisting of maybe one cyclepath built per 5 - 10 years) is entirely, and usually badly, designed by designers that usually do massive bypasses, huge high-speed junctions and so on, focussing on cars.

In Bradford and Leeds, even the flagship new cycle path from one city to the other is focussed primarily on the needs or wants of car drivers.

This collapse in bike-related funding will not affect these people in any way, other than to allow them to return to their primary love, which is serving the motorist.

london?...blah

Er, no bit of central government has a budget for after April 2016 (OK, there's a few exceptions like road and flood investment but that's less than 5%). That's how the public finances work and what the spending review George Osborne announced a few weeks ago is going to set. And it's how Labour did the public finances when they were in power too.

So basically this is a non-story and you could insert parks, culture, defence, prisons, courts, job centres in the place of cycling in the headline.

Not known as the Nasty Tory Party for nothing.

"There is a funding cliff coming up which could stop the great momentum which is being built ……"

WTF - great momentum! What great momentum? Seriously I haven't seen so much as a ripple. It's all lies. So much money is wasted on useless projects and consultants who haven't got a frikin' clue.

We can thank the 24% for voting in the miserable lying C***s.
Do you recall the American General character in Kenny Everett's TV shows?
"Round 'em up, put 'em in a field & bomb the bastards"

Cameron continually comes up short, Osborn always looks like he's off his face & needs his Mums help to get dressed, Hunt is spectacular in his inappropriate bombasts against the doctors & staff in the NHS, Soubrey has been best summed up as a "Pound shop Thatcher". I can't think of too many more that catch the eye, they are all self-serving, faceless cretins looking to hitch themselves to a consultancy post In the rapidly growing, publicly funded, private sector service providers.

This news is to be expected...

Wellcome to Tory Britain in 2015. That being said thei are other cuts I'm much more upset about. Money spent on cycling is generally wasted on rubbish infrastructure that nobody really wants to use.

Please, no one honestly thought that
a) a government and
b) a Conservative government
were ever seriously going to honour any kind of promises and particularly honour any kind of promises related to cycling, did they?

If you did, me and Joanna Lumley have a bridge to sell you...

Jeremy Corbyn is a cyclist