The Big Cycling Debate – chance to participate!

By Sam Jones
Thursday, 19 February 2015
UK Cycling Alliance's "Big Cycling Debate"
With the General Election fast approaching, the UK Cycling Alliance - which includes CTC - has invited cycling leads in political parties to debate what they would do to make cycling safer and increase participation levels.

Lead transport spokespeople from the Conservatives, Labour and Liberal Democrat political parties will debate their manifesto points on cycling and its infrastructure at the first ever ‘Big Cycling Debate.' 

The event will take place in central London on Monday 2 March, 11.30 - 12.30pm for our supporters and other interested members of the public.

Following a similar format to BBC's Question Time, the Big Cycling debate will be chaired by John Humphrys, broadcaster and journalist. The audience can expect to hear Robert Goodwill MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Transport from the Conservative Party, Richard Burden MP, Shadow Minister for Transport from the Labour Party and Dr Julian Huppert MP, Vice Chair of the Federal Policy Committee from the Liberal Democrats all debating the prospective cycling policies of their parties.

We will be live tweeting from the event, so you can keep up with the action by following #cyclingdebate.

We have a limited number of seats still available if you would like to attend - however, these places are strictly on a first come first served basis. So, if you would like to register your interest in attending and ask a question of the panel please email hustings[at]ctc.org.uk with the subject line of "Big Cycling Debate - call for questions". 

Alternatively, you may not be able to attend but may wish to submit a question. If so, please send your question to the above email address and we will pass it to the Chair to put to the panel.

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