A number of English cities and parks are to share a £94m government cash injection to promote cycling.

A total of £77m of the funding will be spent on improving existing – and creating new – cycle routes in Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, Newcastle, Bristol, Cambridge Oxford and Norwich.

An additional £17m will be available to improve cycling paths at four of England's national parks - New Forest, Peak District, South Downs and Dartmoor.

The government has hailed the funding as the biggest ever single investment in cycling.

Prime Minister David Cameron said the announcement includes a commitment to cut red tape that can "stifle cycle-friendly road design and to encourage changes to the way roads are built or altered".

Councils will be also expected to up their game to deliver infrastructure that takes cycling into account from the design stage.

Cameron said: "Following our success in the Olympics, the Paralympics and the Tour de France, British cycling is riding high – now we want to see cycling soar.

"Our athletes have shown they are among the best in the world and we want to build on that, taking our cycling success beyond the arena and onto the roads, starting a cycling revolution which will remove the barriers for a new generation of cyclists."

The detailed amounts received by each city are:

• Greater Manchester £20m

• West Yorkshire £18.1m• Birmingham £17m

• West of England £7.8m• Newcastle £5.7m

• Cambridge £4.1m• Norwich £3.7m

• Oxford £0.8m

The parks will share the funding as follows:

• Peak District £5.0m• Dartmoor £4.4m

• South Downs £3.8m • New Forest £3.6 m