Ex-pat Polly Low reports from Washington DC. America’s love affair with the car is the stuff of legend. So it’s both a surprise and something of an embarrassment for a Mancunian to arrive in the capital city of this gas-guzzling, SUV-worshipping country, and find that the lot of the cyclist here is, in many ways, […]
Manchester’s Critical Commute happens on the last Friday of every month. The next one is Friday 29 June 2007
From A comparison of transport in Europe Has anyone else noticed the uncanny resemblence between per-capita rates of bicycle use across Europe and the Happiness League Table as published in this BBC story ? Perhaps by chance they are related.
Please Give Cyclists Room signs are cropping up all over the city. But there’s something of a mystery about where the signs come from.
A couple of weeks back, the M.E.N. carried the large and rather inaccurate front page headline: Congestion charging You say NO. Inaccurate because on the same page was the sideline: But 59 per cent back move – if it brings cash for Metrolink. Since bringing cash for Metrolink is exactly what’s on offer, that sounds […]
To celebrate the anniversary of the launch of the Love Your Bike campaign Manchester Friends of the Earth are holding an event with three main elements on Friday March 30th: several rides from points around Manchester culminating at Albert Square a press call with Cllr Neil Swannick at 8:30 at Albert Square to demonstrate our […]
The guest speaker at GMCC’s AGM on 12th March is Manchester-based sustainable transport expert Richard Armitage who’ll talk about the city of Groningen in the Netherlands, probably the most bicycle-friendly city in the world. This will follow the brief AGM formalities, including the annual reports by officers, and the election of a Secretary, Treasurer, Membership […]
The GMPTE is proposing changes in parking and cycling provision for Upper Chorlton Road and Brooks’s Bar Junction. Upper Chorlton Road is used by large numbers of cyclists, particularly in the morning and afternoon peak periods and Brooks’s Bar is one of the busiest junctions in the area.
Spring 2007 Newsletter (PDF) No case to answer: Cyclist wins appeal against inconsiderate riding. Bikes on Film Manchester Bicycle Exhibition Another death on the roads A funny thing happened to me on the way to the bbc Cycling Route Link Go-ahead Cycle lane of the month Just how (relatively) dangerous are pavement cyclists? To wear […]
Ruth Kelly, MP for Bolton West is to decide whether the Sustainable Communities Bill, supported by the CTC and many other goodly organisations, becomes law. She has been invited to a Public Meeting on 30th March 2007 at the Reebok Stadium in Bolton.The Sustainable Communities Bill aims to reverse the decline of local economic activity, […]
