The Fietsersbond reports via a press release on their website that the cabinet will make an extra 100 million euros available for road safety next year. This became clear on Budget Day from the Budget Memorandum. Minister van Nieuwenhuizen previously announced that municipalities and provinces could submit plans for concrete measures to improve safety on roads and cycle paths.

The ministry now writes: 'So many good plans have been received from all over the country that [the minister] will make an extra EUR 2021 million available for this purpose in 100, on top of the EUR 50 million already available annually. This way, roundabouts, sidewalks, intersections and other places where many accidents happen can be dealt with more quickly. '

The extra funds are partly the result of a motion by MPs Kröger (GroenLinks), Schonis (D66), Laçin (SP) and Van Esch (PvdD) on 2 July. In it, the minister was asked to be lenient with an increase in the ceiling of the scheme to encourage road safety measures 2020-2021, if the requested government grant for bicycle measures exceeds the ceiling and the applications contribute sufficiently to improving road safety.

The Cyclists' Union is pleased with the extra impulse to improve (bicycle) road safety. Spokesperson Wim Bot: 'We see it as a result of our permanent campaign to get more money for the bicycle, which we have carried out with extra force since the start of the corona crisis. It is more urgent than ever to make cycle paths safer and to reduce the number of victims'.

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