In collaboration, three local NGOs – Rota, Friends of the Earth Malta, and Moviment Graffitti – have prepared the below response to the National Cycling Strategy consultation document.

While the document contains several good measures, the scope and depth of the document is not proportional to the years spent working on developing a National Cycling Strategy / Policy. We find ourselves very disappointed that after all this time, all we got was a 25-page slideshow. This does not reflect neither the need nor the urgency with which a serious National Cycling Strategy needs to be drafted, finalised and implemented. The Transport Master Plan for 2025, published in 2016, proposed a National Cycling Policy, including two pilot cycling corridors. Seven years later, this still has not materialised. Since then, ongoing roadworks, wider and larger roads and roundabouts, an ever-increasing stock of cars, and a lack of road enforcement have made cycling more difficult and dangerous.

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