For more, better and safer cycling in and around Cambridge
Christmas is coming and the festive lights are coming out across the city! Join Camcycle and friends this Saturday for an easy ride for all ages to enjoy some of Cambridge’s seasonal sparkle. We depart from New Square near the Grafton at 4.30pm and will return to Burleigh Street at 5.30pm,
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The COP26 global climate summit is a great opportunity to tell our national and local governments that cycling fights climate change – if they’re willing to invest and deliver to ensure cycling is accessible to all. This Saturday, Camcycle is joining towns and cities across the world, cycling groups across the UK and local
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Many low-traffic neighbourhoods already exist across the country, but they’ve never been mapped before. At our November monthly meeting, Martin and Simon from CycleStreets, a local not-for-profit social enterprise, shared the work they’ve been doing on a UK-wide analysis of modal filters (bollards, gates, cycle contraflows etc), with Cambridge as one of the main areas
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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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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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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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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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