Eight cities have been awarded funds totaling £114m through the Cycling Ambition Cities programme, announced the deputy prime minister’s office at the beginning of March.

The funding is to cover three years and - after being divided up - the largest portions of £22m each go to Birmingham and the combined authority regions of Manchester and West Yorkshire.

With the addition of their own local transport plan contributions, these three conurbations can claim to be spending at least the £10 per capita per year on cycling now recognised as a minimum requirement since publication of the all-parliamentary Get Britain Cycling report. The funding picture is less promising for cycling elsewhere however.

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