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To read our Newsletter for November 2016 please click here The Grow Your Tenner match-funding scheme is still open for a little while longer, so if you’d like to donate and haven’t done so already, please click here for our Localgiving page….
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Newcastle City Council says it wants more people to cycle and travel more actively. And rightly so! Newcastle has an obesity crisis putting a crushing burden on health/wellbeing services. General inequalities are widening in the city too. Newcastle is becoming…
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Newcycling has replied to Nexus consultation on the new Metrocar fleet design. Individuals can reply online up until the 2 December 2016 – your chance to also ask for a 21st Century design which meets future needs and allows normal bikes…
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Our very own Chair contrasts cycling in Newcastle with Bremen in Germany for the blog Breminize – blogging for a liveable city. Please note that the video embedded in the article is in German only. In the clip Katja speaks…
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Koko Herder, a visiting Dutch student, has written a report on cycling infrastructure and its design process in Newcastle, and compared his findings to Rotterdam. The report speaks of the many tensions that exist in the design process in Newcastle…
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Evening Chronicle (23 October 2016) – http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/blue-house-roundabout-what-stage-12059759
Did you know that Science Central, one of the key flagship developments within Newcastle city centre is aiming to be an exemplary site for sustainable urban development? In our reply to their Development Framework consultation, we remind the Council of their…
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Dear Mayor Norma Redfearn and Cllr Nick Forbes The previous devolution deal showed strong support for integrated transport in the region, but looked critically weak on active travel. There was no mention at all of the infrastructure investment required to…
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To read our Newsletter for October 2016 please click here We’re also planning a Campaign social evening on Tuesday November 8th @ 19:00 – 21:00 at Bar Loco for your diary. If there’s anything you’d like us to include in…
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It’s Grow Your Tenner time again! The “double-your-donation” match-funding scheme opens at 10am on Tuesday 18 October and runs until 5pm Thursday 17 November 2016, or until the funding pot runs out – whichever comes first. Last year match-funding ran…
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