For more, better and safer cycling in and around Cambridge
Camcycle is deeply saddened by the death of Anna Garratt-Quinton, who was killed while cycling at the Addenbrooke’s roundabout on Hills Road last Thursday. Our thoughts are with her family, friends and colleagues.
In the last few weeks, there have also been serious collisions involving cyclists on Gilbert Road in Cambridge, Longstaff Way in
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Play Streets are spreading across Cambridgeshire! At our October monthly meeting Playing Out activator Julia Sang and Cambridgeshire County Council Youth & Community Coordinator Paul Connelly talk about how the scheme is working locally and how you can get involved.
Playing Out is a resident-led movement restoring children’s freedom to play out in the streets
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Mayor Dr Nik Johnson has made clear that he supports those who wish to see the Mill Road bus gate in Cambridge and Crescent Bridge cycle lane in Peterborough reinstalled following a meeting with Transport Minister Chris Heaton-Harris last week. Speaking to Dotty McLeod on BBC Radio Cambridgeshire’s breakfast programme, Dr Johnson said that
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All are welcome to the Camcycle social ride to Eddington on Saturday 25 September. We’ll meet outside Great St Mary’s to depart at 11am for an easy route past historic colleges, along the scenic Coton Path and through the West Cambridge site to arrive at the Brook Leys parkland area at Eddington. We’ll bring the
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Cycling safety is improved when drivers have better awareness of cyclist behaviour – why they might do certain things on the road, such as moving into the centre of the lane when approaching a pinch point – and a better understanding of the laws around cycling. Bikeability, the national cycle training organisation, has been working
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A traffic law, due to come into force later this year, will give authorities new powers to better accommodate disabled drivers into their schemes. This will mean that measures designed to prioritise access for residents and those walking, cycling and travelling by bus can be tailored by councils with exemptions appropriate to each neighbourhood.
Although
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Camcycle is grateful to technology and design consultancy CDP for its generous donation of £5,000 to support our work for Spaces to Breathe and Zero Carbon Streets. The UK office of the fast-growing organisation is based just outside Cambridge and the grant was provided as part of CDP’s 25th anniversary celebrations. The company
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From suffragettes to sportswomen and trailblazing Victorians to those challenging modern-day taboos, Hannah Ross’ book Revolutions: How Women Changed the World on Two Wheels is an inspirational tale of the freedom women have found – and continue to find – through cycling.
Camcycle’s Administrative Officer Rosamund Humphrey asks Hannah what motivated her to pull together
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Camcycle has sent a letter to Transport Minister Chris Heaton-Harris asking whether Cambridgeshire County Council’s decision to discontinue the Mill Road bus gate scheme before attempting any improvements is against the policies set out by the Department for Transport (DfT). We are concerned that the way the Mill Road bus gate scheme has been managed
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