Cycle campaigning

Point 4 - aren't the Highways Agency more involved in Motorways & Trunk Rds than city streets (council tax contributes to these)?

If so, why must they pay for city cycle lanes - little to no direct modal shift there.

Now, you see, I was wondering why everyone was cross with the Minister for Roads* for saying that he'd rather not have cyclists on the roads he controlled.

I took this as him being about to announce a huge program of cycle route building, and wondered why none of the cycling organisations failed to call his bluff on this, by going on the news and saying isn't this great, he'd rather that cyclists were able to cycle on totally separate paths, and this must mean that there will be a huge funding announcement coming soon. We are hugely looking forward to it, etc.

*may not be correct title