{"id":807344,"date":"2026-10-19T07:32:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807344\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T07:32:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T07:32:09","slug":"milton-keynes-survey-finds-only-one-in-four-cyclists-are-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/807344\/","title":{"rendered":"Milton Keynes survey finds only one in four cyclists are women"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Campaigners say more needs to be done to encourage women to take up cycling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Gender Pedal Gap Taskforce, an initiative set up in Milton Keynes, said only one in four of the bikers they surveyed on the city&#8217;s cycle routes were women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Concerns about safety and a lack of time for leisure activities are believed to be among the reasons for the disparity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The issue was highlighted at an all-day cycle summit in Milton Keynes on Thursday, where senior councillors were asked to commit to working harder to combat the problem.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Cycling Citizens MK group, which set up the taskforce, surveyed people about the Milton Keynes Redways, which are paths designed for cyclists and pedestrians.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only 23% of the people they observed on bicycles were women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A third of the female cyclists were worried about road collisions and a fifth were concerned about stranger danger, the group said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Jane Whild, the co-founder of the taskforce, said women might also &#8220;have more caring responsibilities and less time to spend on leisure [and] less funding because of the gender pay gap&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Campaigners say more needs to be done to encourage women to take up cycling. The Gender Pedal Gap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":807345,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[4985,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-807344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-cycling","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=807344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/807344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/807345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=807344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=807344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=807344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}