For more, better and safer cycling in and around Cambridge
What does our region need to do to address and adapt to climate change and how can local groups encourage action? At our February 2022 monthly meeting, Rhiannon Osborne, part of the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Independent Commission on Climate (CPICC) summarises some of the issues identified in the report the CPICC published last October and
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Clare Rogers lives in London and began calling for more liveable streets in Enfield when the borough received ‘Mini Holland’ funding. Now the Healthy Streets Campaigner at London Cycling Campaign, she joined us for our December 2021 meeting to talk to us about how she works to achieve community engagement and unity while campaigning for
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A School Street is a road outside a school with a temporary restriction on motorised traffic at school drop-off and pick-up times. The measure helps school communities to tackle air pollution, improve family health and reduce road danger around the school. The government is encouraging as many families as possible to walk, cycle or scoot
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All cycle campaigning comes down to local issues at some point; a truth made even more apparent to Camcycle as we’ve worked for Spaces to Breathe. Collaboration with local groups has been essential to this campaign and encouraging communities to champion emergency measures in their areas is still vital today.
The guest speakers at
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In June 1995 a new organisation was formed in Cambridge to work for more, better and safer cycling in the area. 25 years later, our online monthly meeting was a special celebration of all those who have supported Camcycle – the Cambridge Cycling Campaign – over the years, as members, volunteers, partners, people who cycle
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We all wish living car-free would be more convenient. We all want cars to be safer around cyclists and pedestrians. Dan Hulme, Camcycle member and developer at local autonomous car maker FiveAI, is working towards these goals. He’ll be discussing how a self-driving car service can support and protect all road users, and taking
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We know that Cambridge is the leading cycling city in the UK, but when it comes to the cycling rates of the Netherlands we fall short.
Local cycling campaigners have been calling for Dutch standards of infrastructure in Cambridge for years and now we have the opportunity to learn from the Dutch just how that
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