For a City with Space for Cycling. We lobby. We campaign. We publish. We inform.
Claire Prospert, our Secretary and co-founder, was invited to speak at the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences. You can listen to her enlightening talk summarising 5-years of campaigning in 15 minutes here (whereas the full day including other talks by speakers from academia and activism is documented here). Claire reminded…
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Presentations Rachel Aldred keynote no slides || recording Geoff Vigar “Where are we at in academia with cycling. What do we know?” slides || recording Kevin Hickman “What does designing for inclusive cycling mean?” slides || recording Christian Wolmar Intro to afternnoon session no slides || recording Sally Hinchcliffe “How cycle bloggers…
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Following our letter to Pat Ritchie about budget transparency and accountability for council’s transport function, we would like to continue talking to the chief executive about the transport transition and the cost of the current system. We feel this is…
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Jesmond Local (12 November 2015) – http://jesmondlocal.com/2015/11/retailers-remain-divided-on-acorn-road-as-construction-continues/ – Newcycling’s Sally Watson comments
Our reply to the council for the engagement being carried out for the North of the City Centre. The councils website for the engagement: https://northnewcastle.commonplace.is/ Our Reply As the City Centre North proposals cover a number of different schemes, we…
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To read the Newcastle Cycling Campaign Update for November 2015, click here. Feel free to get in touch if you have any comments, questions, suggestions or if you would like to help the Campaign. We’d love to hear from you!
As part of the ESRC Festival, Northumbria University and newcycling.org organise a day of researchers and campaigners to collaborate for the common good on national and local transport cycling agendas. Katja Leyendecker, chair of newcycling says “The event brings together…
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