SPEED limits on key routes in Liverpool should be reduced from 40mph to 30mph to make it safer for cyclists, a city councillor has urged.
Cllr John Coyne, the council's sole Green Party member, will be putting forward his strategy at tomorrow's meeting of Liverpool City Council,.
As well as seeing the speed limit on roads such as Queen's Drive cut, he wants a network of segregated cycle paths.
Last night keen cyclist Cllr Coyne said: " Traffic speeds and the lack of segregated cycle lanes contribute to suppressing the demand for cycling in this city.
"We can only regret that many people are excluded from relying on the bicycle as a serious and practical means of transport".
Cllr Coyne says the Government's own transport experts at the Department for Transport have invited highway authorities to review local speed limits. A government circular says roads with a local 40mph should, wherever possible, cater for the needs of non-motorised road users such as cyclists, through segregation of road space.
However a speed reduction is to be preferred, taking some other measures into account, says Cllr Coyne.
He added: "These initiatives would reduce road danger to drivers themselves and to vulnerable users, as well as reducing the noise pollution and problems with congestion and improvement in road capacity because of shorter stopping distances."
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