Roger Gale: ...would require that consultation to include details of the proposed licensing framework. Amendment 2, page 1, line 10, leave out “whoever” and insert “the London Pedicab Operators Association, Cycling UK and whoever else”. This amendment would ensure that the London Pedicab Operators Association and Cycling UK would be consulted by Transport for London before TfL makes pedicab...
Roger Gale: ...transport and infrastructure projects, including ports and airports; and (iv) an assessment of the structural condition of the strategic and local road networks.”. New clause 4—Walking and cycling— ‘Within six months of the day on which this Act is passed, Her Majesty’s Government shall lay before Parliament a strategy which establishes long-term commitment and funding to...
Roger Gale: ...they work around Westminster or Victoria, or in the City around Cannon Street. They are used to catching a train to one of the riverbank termini and then walking, or even taking a fold-up bike and cycling, to work. My constituents are going to be made to pay higher prices to travel to a station they do not want to go to and then pay a tube fare to get back to the place where they actually...
Roger Gale: ...and needs help. We have talked a lot about business, and I understand that this is a commercial business, but if we lose the expertise of all those people delivering all those letters, trudging and cycling all those miles all around the country every day except Sunday—although even on Sunday there are collections—we shall never get it back. I want to say to hon. Members on both sides...