Newcastle Cycling Campaign and Newcastle City Council joined forces with the city’s major bus operators and hosted the first ever cycling awareness workshop on 27 June 2012, to improve safety on our streets.
Campaign chair Katja Leyendecker: “Talk to cyclists and they’ll tell you that tensions on our roads are on the up. Any preventative measure to alleviate this must a good thing. Alongside asking for safe space for cyclists, we want to start a road user debate. “
On Wednesday locals came flocking to the Cricket Club to discuss getting around safely in Jesmond, walking and cycling. The bike racks were parked up with thirty local people attending and keen to make their view heard.
Tony Waterston, Transition Jesmond, set the scene "Jesmond is ideal cycling territory but at present there is heavy traffic and no safe spaces for cyclists. So few children cycle to school, few ladies cycle to the shops and not many older gents cycle to work. We plan to change this.
We’ll be there
Your involvement
Meet at Civic Centre, under the Tyne God. Full council meeting. We will hand out surveys to Newcastle Councillors to “Make a Little Pledge for Cycling” following the adoption of the Cycling Manifesto http://newcycling.org/news/20110907/cycle-manifesto-adopted. Come along and lend a hand!
We’d have liked to attend. The time was prohibitive.
Brighton Grove hearing of objections. Campaign has submitted their part-objection on numerous occasions and attended many meetings. We’ll keep an eye on the decisions taken by the council on this longstanding problem. It's a shame we cannot personally attend the hearing: its daytime scheduling is prohibitive to volunteers, and we have brought this lack of inclusion to the attention of the council.
Your involvement
Anne Clark, council cycling officer, would like to set up a working group to discuss Newcastle Central Station redevelopment. First meeting of group on 15 November. Contact Anne directly on anne.clark@newcastle.gov.uk
Newcastle City Council are making ill plans for the future of transport. Please take the time to ACTION! object to their LDF Core strategy by 4 January 2012.
We have prepared a draft objection for you: draft letter attached below.
How cycle-friendly are they? What do they know about cycling? Where are the gaps and problems? Knowledge, experience, policy? And how can we help? The aim is to find the individuals we can work with, the ones who are willing to lend an open ears. The councillors do not necessarily need to be cycling themselves, but have an open and fair attitude that we can mutually build upon to bring to life a cycle culture for Newcastle.
