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

Cycling vs the Electric Car +

Electric vehicles have received a lot of press over the past few months. This furore has even led some to suggest that EVs are more efficient than food powered humans riding bicycles. So we at Bristol Cycling have put together an unapologetically technical article in an attempt to shed some light on this. Why does energy matter? For starters, energy, whether it is petrol, electricity or food costs money. We are also burning our way… Read More
6 reasons to make cycling to work your New Year's resolution +

Cycling rates are increasing year on year in Bristol. However, the motor car is still the dominant transport mode for commuting in the UK. So why not make your New Year's resolution to leave the car at home and get on your bike to and from the office. Here are 6 good reasons why it makes sense: Weight loss. Potentially the most common resolution, but how many people actually stick out the tedium of 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
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 #3: Inner Loop Proposal +

The Bristol Cycling Campaign is putting together a proposal to City Hall for a segregated loop around the city centre. The Inner Loop Cycleway will link the new and established radial routes and help cyclists safely negotiate the ‘tarmac collar’ of the city’s motor traffic dominated Inner Ring Road. There's a map and key here. The proposed route will be designed to the Dutch standard, sections of it already exist through earlier developments. What follows… Read More
Who pays for our roads? +

There is still an assumption that those using cycles don’t pay their way on our roads. This is despite significant progress being made in recent years highlighting the misconceptions of vehicle excise duty, often mistakenly referred to as “Road tax” (ipayroadtax.com). Remembering that 80% of cyclists are also drivers, we think it is a good time to highlight the shared costs we all pay for these stretches of tarmac that dominate our urban environment. The… 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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Cycling vs the Electric Car +

6 reasons to make cycling to work your New Year's resolution +

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

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

A Modest Proposal #3: Inner Loop Proposal +

Who pays for our roads? +