South Glos – Rural: Almondsbury, Thornbury, Westerleigh, Yate

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South Glos – Rural: Almondsbury, Thornbury, Westerleigh, Yate

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News

Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plan Consultation +

The West of England Combined Authority (WECA) - remember them, Metro Mayor, Tim Bowles? - have shown scant interest in active travel.… Read More

Cycling around Yate - the Spur and other routes +

The new Yate Spur cycle path opened in April 2018 providing a shared use route between the Bristol and Bath… Read More

South Gloucestershire Draft Cycle Strategy - our response +

A lot of useful work has gone in to this draft strategy which follows on from the publication last year… Read More

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Featured – selection of key articles

A Modest Proposal #6; Eight to Eighty cycling on Gloucester Road +

Did you know that Gloucester Road was one of Bristol’s busiest cycle routes (Building on success – lessons from Gloucester Road)? What’s more, the number of people cycling has doubled in the last ten years whereas motor vehicle numbers have dropped by a fifth. These facts can be seen from Department for Transport Traffic Counts. So what does this tell us? Bristol’s Cycling City money has been well spent? Not quite. Significant Cycling City money was… Read More
A Modest Proposal #4: Clanage Road Roundabout and the Festival Way +

If you want to scare yourself rigid, pop along to Clanage Road roundabout on any weekday in term time at 3.15pm. That's the time that 1,500 kids pour out of Ashton Park School and onto the fast busy roundabout on the A369. This is a key hub on the F11 Inner Orbital Cycling Freeway in the BCyC strategic cycle network and close to F8 Festival Way Quietway. BCyC members have been working with local residents… Read More
BCyC Policy - Shared Space Streets and Shared Use Pavements +

What’s the issue? The Bristol regional cycle network is almost entirely made up of shared space with motor traffic, or shared use with pedestrians. Both are essential and useful where appropriate, but otherwise can create conflict and anxiety about safety from more vulnerable users, whether perceived or actual. The Bristol Bike Life 2015 Report rated shared pavements and bus lanes as the least popular measures. Concerns about safety is the major factor preventing more people… Read More
Bristol Cycling Network +

Bristol Cycling Campaign has produced a concise strategy for cycling in Bristol. This sets out how we will achieve Space for Cycling. The strategy is affordable, maintaining current spending levels of £16 per head of population per year, and can be delivered in just 12 years for a total of £109m. We have mapped out the network of strategic routes shown here that connect every neighbourhood. These can also be seen in an innovative 'Top… Read More
Continental Case Study #1: Europe's 12th busiest high street, Mariahilfer Strasse, Vienna +

In the first of our series of case studies looking at how cycling infrastructure has developed on the continent, we focus on how responses to planned pedestrianisation and low traffic neighbourhoods in Vienna in 2014 mirror those we're seeing currently in Bristol. Let's not beat around the bush, our continental neighbours by and large do cycling and walking infrastructure much better than us. Yet for some reason we ignore them and try to reinvent the… Read More
Bike Life Bristol 2019 report finds safety is the single largest barrier to more people cycling +

In case you needed any convincing of the scale of both the challenge and opportunity for cycling in Bristol, Sustrans have released their excellent Bike Life report for 2019. This follows on from the 2017 and 2015 reports and highlights many of the barriers to cycling in Bristol but also some of the huge opportunities and potential in the city: 350,000 people live within a 25 minute cycle of 'The Galleries' 73% of people think… Read More

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South Glos – Rural: Almondsbury, Thornbury, Westerleigh, Yate

Local Cycling & Walking Infrastructure Plan Consultation +

Cycling around Yate - the Spur and other routes +

South Gloucestershire Draft Cycle Strategy - our response +

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A Modest Proposal #6; Eight to Eighty cycling on Gloucester Road +

A Modest Proposal #4: Clanage Road Roundabout and the Festival Way +

BCyC Policy - Shared Space Streets and Shared Use Pavements +

Bristol Cycling Network +

Continental Case Study #1: Europe's 12th busiest high street, Mariahilfer Strasse, Vienna +

Bike Life Bristol 2019 report finds safety is the single largest barrier to more people cycling +