£20m cycling boost as NICE calls for healthier Britain

The government has announced £20million to fund improvements to cycling infrastructure across England. The news came on the same day that the government health advisory body, the National Institute for Clinical Health and Excellence (NICE), issued a report urging people to walk and cycle for short journeys. Click here to read the Department for Transport […]

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“Love Cycling, Go Dutch” conference held in Manchester

  The last of four “Love Cycling, Go Dutch” conferences was held in Manchester on Monday 19th and Tuesday 20th November 2012. On Monday GMCC campaigners joined local highways engineers and transport consultants at a workshop day held at TfGM’s offices, with visits to two local highways, the A56/A57 roundabout near Deansgate, and a section […]

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Traffic and special clothing – an Italian view of Manchester

In the second of GMCC’s series of interviews offering an outside eye on Manchester’s cycling culture, we hear from adopted Mancunian Lorenza Casini, an Architect and campaigner who mixes with Manchester’s motors on a daily basis. Ask where in Italy she is from and Lorenza will tell you she has lived in so many towns, […]

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“Going Dutch…” report and follow-up event

Report on ‘Going Dutch hosted talk held on 1st May.The follow-up to GMCC’s “Going Dutch” talk by Richard Armitage is 29 May 2012.

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Free cycle parking when you buy coffee

PopUp Bikes cafe, run by a GMCC member, is Manchester’s staffed, indoor cycle parking facility

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Manchester, first city to get a Brompton Dock hire facilty

Norman Baker cycling in Manchester

GMCC campaigner Vincent Walsh reports on the city’s most compact hire scheme

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“Going Dutch…” presentation Tues 1st May

Going Dutch cycling

Going Dutch: New homes, new travel arrangements in the Netherlands. A special presentation and photo tour by Richard Armitage. Monday 16th April 2012 at 19.00 hrs at The Friends Meeting House, Manchester. M2 5NS

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D locks and potholes: a Danish view of Manchester

Anne Berg cycling in Manchester

Visiting postgraduate Anne Berg shares her first impressions of cycling in England’s second city.

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Cycling cultures/cycling politics: 1950s-2011

Dave Barker writes about riding through the time of car. His thoughts and insights take us from cycling clubs in the 1950s through to 2010/11.

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Campaigning with CTC

Alex Bailey cycling in Manchester

GMCC member Alex Bailey writes about working as Interim Communications Officer for national cyclists’ organisation CTC

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