Minister for cycling: UK will never be like the Netherlands

Guardian: The Department for Transport is making what they're billing as "a big announcement" on cycling this morning. All I know at the time of writing is that this will include £9m (£7.5m from the DfT and the rest from rail companies) for a big expansion of cycle parking at stations. That's interesting, if not so huge on its own – the last government committed £14m at one go in 2009. Anyhow, in handing me this snippet – I'm presuming another teaser has gone to a different paper – the DfT press minders...

URL: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/bike-blog/2013/jan/30/cycling-uk-netherlands