Author: Mark Nelson

Summer Meet Up In July Sally Watson, former Cycle Campaign chair, will be give a presentation on the best of this year’s Cycle County Active County conference, which is taking place in Oxfordshire in early July. The annual conference (previously known as Cycle City when held in Newcastle in 2015) is supported by the Department for Transport as its annual active travel summit and billed as Europe’s largest annual gathering of cycling and walking professionals. Sally will be sharing some of the highlights of this year’s conference and talking about the latest thinking from Active Travel England and other agencies[…]

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New Social Rides In Newcastle A new social ride has been launched for anybody who would like a very relaxed ride with other people. Happening on the 2nd Friday of each month the, the ride will follow quiet streets and cycle lanes at a pace manageable by everybody, and nobody will be left behind. The next ride will be happening on Friday 12th May, will start at the Civic Centre , take in the recently created Safer Heaton scheme, the long awaited and recently completed extension to Heaton Road’s protected cycle lane and the new installed Safer Jesmond area before[…]

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