Daily: On Your Bike, Britain!

The Bunker – News without the nonsense

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🗓️ 15 October 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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More bikes and fewer cars on the road has turned out to be one of the unexpected dividends of COVID. But can Britain ever get to an Amsterdam-style paradise of bikes? And will Britons ever stop raging about cyclists? Coventry’s Cycling Mayor Adam Tranter – he’s all bike chain, no gold chain – tells Justin Quirk what’s needed to get Britain into the saddle. “Most people don’t know this but Coventry practically invented the modern bicycle.” “Paris has transformed into a bike-friendly city in less than a year. If you build it, they will come.” “If we’re not careful we could lose this moment to change our streets and cities for good.” “With lockdown, people felt like they could use bike safely with the family for the first time in decades.” Presented and produced by Andrew Harrison. Assistant producer Jacob Archbold. Music by Kenny Dickinson. Audio production by Alex Rees. THE BUNKER is a Podmasters Production See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	My name is Stan. I'm at. Nice to meet you. So you took up photography where? I've always loved
0:05.5	photography but I turn it into earning a living at 60. I enrolled on a day course.
0:11.8	Well college. I loved going to college. It's good you can retry. I'm enrolled on the day course. But college?
0:13.0	I loved going to college.
0:14.0	It's good you can retrain and do something.
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0:55.3	look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Hello, welcome to the bunker daily. I'm Justin Quirk. Lockdown has given us a lot of miserable things.
1:14.4	Endless Zoom meetings in ukulele driven adverts about being together alone among them.
1:18.8	But it's been very, very good for transport and specifically for cycling.
1:22.4	And given that research in the British Medical Journal... transport and specifically for cycling.
1:23.0	And given that research in the British Medical Journal in 2017
1:26.0	showed that adults who cycle to work have a lower long-term risk of dying of cancer
1:29.7	or cardiovascular disease, that's probably a good thing for all of us.
1:33.0	Adam Trante is the first of a cycling mayor of Coventry, lifelong cyclist who runs a
1:38.1	communications agency dedicated to getting more people on their bikes.
1:41.8	There are over 100 cycling mayors around the world now and
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