Britain way behind Europe in cycling infrastructure development, report finds

Data says only 27% of people in UK feel their local cycling infrastructure has improved in the last year

A rider on an e-bike
(Image credit: Andy Donohoe)

The annual “State of the Nation” report released by Shimano has shown that only 27% of surveyed people in the UK think that their local cycling infrastructure has improved in the past year. 

More than 2,000 British people participated in the study, as part of a wider group of 15,500 people across 12 European countries. In comparison to the UK's 27%, an average of 39% across all of the countries involved felt that cycling infrastructure had improved. A study earlier this year found that a lack of infrastructure is one of the biggest factors preventing people from cycling.

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Tom Thewlis
News and Features Writer

After previously working in higher education, Tom joined Cycling Weekly in 2022 and hasn't looked back. He's been covering professional cycling ever since; reporting on the ground from some of the sport's biggest races and events, including the Tour de France, Paris-Roubaix and the World Championships. His earliest memory of a bike race is watching the Tour on holiday in the early 2000's in the south of France - he even made it on to the podium in Pau afterwards. His favourite place that cycling has taken him is Montréal in Canada.