Manchester Friends of the Earth’s Love Your Bike campaign kicked off today with a 7am mass commute from Withington Library. Then a photoshoot at the the Mancunian Way roundabout. Lots of riders turned up. The campaign will run for the next few months. Look out for posters like this one on billboards and backs of […]
Manchester councils can be so eager to create new cycling routes – so as to be seen to be Doing Something To Encourage Cycling – that they completely forget the ones they already have. So it is with the Manchester Airport Orbital Cycle Route, which for part of the year turns into bramble-choked obstacle course. […]
Proposed Highway Code rule 58 may force cyclists to “use cycle routes when practicable and cycle facilities … where they are provided”. This rule will benefit drivers’ insurance companies fighting cyclists’ claim and will be to the detriment of cyclists choosing not to use dangerous or inadequate cycle lanes.
They say once you get a car, you never want to ride on a bus again. For some people that might be true. Given the cost of bus fares in Manchester, you can’t blame them.
Download January 2006 newsletter (PDF) £10,000 Community Network cycling project report emerges from council black hole Manchester gets its first (designated) Cycling Officer – or does it ? The Rhyl Crash – A tragedy that affects us all Hospital Chief buys £2m Italian Car Park The real reason the Deputy PM prefers Jags to Bikes? […]
Last June, Transport for London announced that the number of cycle journeys made in London had increased by 67 per cent during the past five years, and that the number of people killed on London’s roads fell by 21 per cent last year. In December, a report for the National Audit Office showed that 44% […]
Although the car rules in the sprawling metropolis of Perth, Western Australia regional government is making a pretty good go at promoting cycling.
Several German cities now feature Call a Bike schemes,cycle hire run by Deutsche Bahn – German Railways. We tried it – it works, in Berlin at least.
Robert Winston made his annual progress review of the Millennium Children of Our Time on BBC One on Sunday night. In the first programme he attempted to measure happiness. The most joyful child is revealed as Jamie, unphased by daily injections of insulin to counter diabetes, he delights in lots of exercise, particularly riding his […]
Assorted bicycle riders of all ages and abilities get together one Sunday each month, whatever the weather, for a gentle ride into the countryside and back, with a pub lunch in between. Anyone can join them, and will be made most welcome. They set off at 10am from the car park at Chorlton Water Park […]
