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To read our Newsletter for December 2016 please click here These are our priorities for 2017 – there is much to do – come and join us and help make Newcastle a safer and healthier city for everyone. Many thanks…
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A public outcry in response to their Blue House roundabout plans forced Newcastle Council to go back to the drawing board. To the council’s credit they have gone back to basics. Newcastle council invited local groups to discuss what should happen here, and…
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The upcoming second phase of Newcastle’s Cycle City Ambition Fund includes plans to reduce traffic and improve conditions for walking and cycling in neighbourhoods close to the city centre. Jesmond, Sandyford, Heaton, Ouseburn, Fenham and Arthur’s Hill are all part…
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In front of MPs, Katja spoke at a All-Party Parliamentary group meeting in London. On 29 November 2016 our chair attended the All-Party Parliamentary Cycling Group meeting. Her message was one of inclusion and empathy – as well as money…
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This is a written response from newcycling.org to the urban congestion inquiry We are a constituted organisation entirely run by volunteers. We formed in 2010 to address economic, social and spatial inequalities in the transport system and to lobby Newcastle…
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Evening Chronicle (23 November 2016) – The campaigning group has called for more cycle lanes after one was introduced on John Dobson Street. On video Katja gives the campaign’s position on the project. http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/we-should-more-like-amsterdam-12221587
People travelling into Newcastle from Jesmond, Gosforth and further afield will have noticed that the construction works have now started on Brandling Park. This follows a physical trial at the junction with Clayton Road a few months back. It is…
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Chi Onwurah MP for Newcastle reports from her recent trip to Africa and gives us her perspective of what it is like to cycle in a local town in Namibia. An account about the social value of cycling, women empowerment…
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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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