Get on your bike? Not if some Tory councils have their way

Local authorities still see the car as king' and have been abandoning government plans for cycle lanes and pedestrian areas

Transport officials have cut funding to three Conservative-controlled councils for failing to encourage walking and cycling amid a local Tory backlash against government-backed plans to reduce traffic and pollution.

The Department for Transport (DfT) has been forced to reduce active travel funding to a string of councils after Tory councillors removed pop-up cycle lanes and pedestrianised areas before they had a chance to change the way people travel.