Sheffield's main political parties prioritise cycling and green transport in their budgets

Labour is spending £15m on making the city’s transport greener, improving bus journeys and creating better walking and cycling routes.

Coun Bob Johnson, Cabinet member for transport and development, said: “The council has recently prepared an £85m programme of cycling, walking and bus corridor improvements.

“We’re investing £1.5m to deliver high quality cycle networks linking the city centre to Broomhall and providing segregated and direct links across the inner ring road.”

The Lib Dems said if elected, they would devote cash to major cycling schemes and look at bringing back a community bike hire scheme, similar to the yellow Ofo bikes.

Shadow cabinet member for finance Coun Simon Clement-Jones said: “We would also invest £1m in road safety schemes, such as traffic systems, pedestrian crossings and school wardens, paying particular attention to where communities have made a call.”

The Greens obviously had a wealth of ideas in their alternative budget, including creating six new jobs for parking wardens on e-bikes instead of patrol cars and spending £50,000 buying e-cargo bikes to allow the council, businesses and organisations to carry goods around the city in a cleaner, more sustainable way.

Coun Douglas Johnson said: “We would earmark £1m for active travel schemes, including providing cyclists with the protection of segregated cycle lanes and secure bike storage and we would appoint a cycling officer to promote this form of transport.”