National Cycle to Work Day

...seems to have missed Maidstone.

I rode in this morning as part of the new, 'might as well ride as much as possible' however I saw only one other person riding this morning.

The weather was perfect for riding, a dry crisp morning. Not a cloud in the sky and a very good ambient temperature. The type of temperature that is cool when you start but not frigid. However I noticed on road.cc that today is national cycle to work day.

This is the first I have heard of this, there seems to have been organised events in Bristol (which I would have expected) and Manchester but other than that it doesn't seem to have been a very 'national' thing.

A fair few responses on the website show that people support cycling to work and a lot of people do commute to work by bike. However if this is truly national cycle to work day it doesn't appear to have been organised as a national event. I looked on the Sustrans website - a UK charity that arranges and organises cycle routes and is a big charity for safer riding - yet they have no information about national cycle to work day.

This isn't a moan but more a plea, if we are going to do an event like this then surely it needs to be organised en masse with all local councils on board and really pushing it.

Otherwise it will forever be an event that passes the majority by.