area cycling development plan - what would you put in it?

[Quisling]

We have a local transport plan at County Council level with a specific bit covering "rural areas" but it's rather generic and our local villages need better links and the major village definitely needs some cycling facilities.  We need to also tackle the default "jump in the car" mentality for short journeys within the village (it's not hilly!)and make sustainable choices the preferred or preferrable option.  We're also only 4 miles from a motorway junction with good bus links from there into London and Oxford so improving links through several smaller villages to the bus node would be desirable.

So, if you were looking to develop cycling in the area what would you put in your plan?  Quick brain dump:

Introduction \exec summary
Strategic context
Existing local facilities supporting cycling/sustainable travel
proposals to improve
funding requirements
Benefits
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References etc

What am I missing?

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[David Martin]

To identify core routes and ensure they are continuous and pleasant to use. Lots of high quality small facilities or treatments does not a network make.  Journeys have to be feasible and pleasant from A to B (and plenty of cycle parking, preferably under cover at destinations). Limiting on street parking (my favoured trade off at the moment is 20mph or no on-street parking) also does a lot to improve the perception of travel as slower road users come less into conflict with larger ones.

Strategic approach: Identify the network and destinations. Identify the key bottlenecks. Identify the design standards to ensure that new development is connectable easily to the rest of the community. Identify who should be favoured in which areas.

Practical approach: treating key junctions that have been badly designed is a problem, is expensive and needs insightful and 'brave' traffic engineers.