Cycle infrastructure ‘risks reinforcing health inequalities’, report warns

CYCLE infrastructure risks exacerbating health inequalities in Glasgow unless more effort is made to target routes and bike hire schemes to the most deprived communities, public health experts have warned. A series of reports by the Glasgow Centre for Population Health, due to be published next week, highlight that segregated cycle ways to the west and south-west of the city are leading more people to commute by bike, but that the increase has been concentrated among better off households who are more likely to own bikes or live near a segregated cycle route.