For more, better and safer cycling in and around Cambridge
Many families and businesses could use e-cargo bikes as a means to reduce their carbon emissions and beat the congestion on their everyday journeys and the UK government is keen to support their uptake. Last year, Cambridge was one of 18 English local authorities which secured funding from the £2 million e-Cargo Bike Grant Fund
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The University of Cambridge is over 800 years old with over 20,000 students at 31 colleges and 12,500 staff spread over 372 different buildings. There is already a high level of cycling to work, but the potential is there for many more journeys by active, public and shared transport to ensure the university meets the
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Founded in 2018, Voi is a carbon-neutral urban mobility company offering shared transport schemes across 11 countries. They believe e-scooters can play a central role in changing how people move around our cities and reducing transport emissions.
A trial scheme of Voi e-scooters launched in Cambridgeshire in October 2020 as part of the county’s pandemic
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Camcycle welcomed Dr Nik Johnson (Labour and Co-operative Party) and Cllr Aidan Van de Weyer (Liberal Democrat) to answer viewers’ questions on cycling-related issues at our hustings event on Tuesday 6 April, 2021. The Conservative candidate and incumbent, James Palmer declined the invitation to attend.
Candidates introduced themselves and talked about their personal experiences of
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What lessons can we learn from those who live a low-car life? What insights could help decision-makers enable more people to choose active travel or build communities that don’t entrench car dependency?
Camcycle’s March meeting is the first in a series of events about Sustainable Communities. Our Communications Officer Anna Williams was joined by Yasmin
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We’re taking part in South Cambridgeshire District Council’s Climate and Environment fortnight.
Join Camcycle and Lyn Hesse, Senior Road Safety Officer from Cambridgeshire County Council, for an Introduction to School Streets – A greener way to travel webinar on Friday 5 March, 12-12.45pm. Register online now for this free event.
We will be talking
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Sarah Berry is an active travel campaigner from Lambeth, London and yet only a year ago she didn’t even own a bike! It was the installation of a low-traffic neighbourhood (LTN) scheme in her local area that prompted her to take up cycling and, speaking to Camcycle at our February 2021 monthly meeting, she explains
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Over 70 members and guests joined us for the Camcycle 2021 AGM, which was held online via Zoom. Trustees and staff reviewed 2020, shared plans for 2021 and presented the annual Camcycle awards, showing recognition to those who have worked hard for more, better and safer cycling over the last 12 months. We were also
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We’re delighted to announce the candidates for election to the Camcycle board of trustees in 2021. Each year, the board is elected as part of our annual general meeting.
This year, our elections will be conducted using the OpaVote online system. The process is broadly the same as with our previous paper-based ballots, but
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