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| World Cup Cycle Diary | Headlines |
Lindsey Cole from High Wycombe is cycling 12,900 km (8,000 miles) from Cairo to South Africa for charity.
The journalism graduate said if she hadn't found employment by Christmas 2009 she would cycle to the football World Cup 2010.
24th February 2010
| Cycling England scheme encourages bike users | Headlines |
A government scheme to boost cycling in towns appears to have increased the number of trips taken by bike by more than a quarter between 2005 and 2009.
24th February 2010
| Vote Bike! | Headlines |
Cyclenation supports the CTC 'Vote Bike' campaign - see Lobby your prospective MP's and get cycling out of the manifesto and onto the agenda!
14th April 2010
| Vote Bike! | Headlines |
Cyclenation supports the CTC's Vote Bike! campaign - to find out your candidate's attitude to cycling and help get sustainable travel on the agenda for the next parliament.
14th April 2010
| Vote Bike! | Headlines |
Cyclenation supports the CTC's Vote Bike! campaign - to find out your candidate's attitude to cycling and help get sustainable travel on the agenda for the next parliament. 14th April 2010 |  |
| Got an event? Put it in the calendar! | Headlines |
We now have an Events Calendar on the Cyclenation website. If you are from a cyclenation group and have an event that you would like to get nationwide publicity for, please send the details to the secretary using the contact form . There is a charge for displaying non-cyclenation events - contact the secretary for more details.
20th April 2010
| Don't let traincos cut rail services! | Headlines |
Campaign for Better Transport is concerned about proposals to give train operating companies incentives and powers to cut train services whenever they feel like it. Cyclenation is suppporting this campaign - local groups may wish to do so as well. for more info see
To confirm that your group would like to be a signatory to the letter email Cat Hobbs - Cat.Hobbs at bettertransport.org.uk
Simon
Text of open letter:-
Dear Lord Adonis,
Your department has published an informal consultation on ‘The Future of Rail Franchising’ which is said to be only of 'technical interest' to the industry.
This document proposes that train companies should be given a financial incentive to cut train services. We strongly object to this idea. It could encourage companies to run down or cut socially necessary services which don’t make much money, but which people rely on. This would have a very serious impact on rail passengers.
We urge you to think again about this proposal and to give us and passengers the chance to comment on 'The Future of Rail Franchising' in a formal consultation.
We look forward to hearing from you.
23rd April 2010
| Global Action Plan Meetings | Headlines |
Team Green Britain have announced dates for Global Action Plan meetings over the Autumn.
The events, in a nutshell, are about promoting Global Action Plan’s EcoTeam concept to Team Green Britain members and encouraging the formation of groups within communities throughout the country, and teaching ways to be more eco friendly. One of the streams that GAP promotes is eco friendly travel, which cycling clearly fits nicely in to.
Birmingham Wed, 8th September 6:00-8:30PM Think Tank
London Wed, 22nd Septembe 6:00-8:30PM Westminster Kingsway College
London Wed, 6th October 6:00-8:30PM Westminster Kingsway College
Cardiff Sat, 16th Octobe 10.30AM-1pm Marriott Hotel
Kent (Maidstone) Best Western Russell Hotel
Exeter Wed 17th November 6:00-8:30PM Exeter Phoenix
Newcastle Wed 24th November 6:00-8:30PM Great North Museum
Cycling groups are invited to come along and give their expertise on promoting cycling. Contact the Chair via the contact forms for more details.
12th July 2010
| 7th Cycling and Society Symposium Oxford UK | Headlines |
Registration for the 7th Cycling and Society Symposium taking place in Oxford on Monday 6th September 2010 is now open.
Details on how to register and information about the event (and the following day morning workshop) is available by following this link
Places are limited so please take the opportunity to register as soon as possible so as not to be disappointed!
13th July 2010
| Newcastle back in the saddle | Headlines |
After a hiatus we are pleased to announce that the Newcastle Cycle Campaign is getting back on its feet. Their fledging new website is here Good luck to Claire and Katje who have kicked this off!
16th August 2010
| Newsletter hits the streets | Headlines |
The latest edition of the Cyclenation newsletter has been printed and will be on its way to your group'a - nominated contact shortly. Please make sure everyone in your group gets to see it- it will be available on the website shortly.
16th August 2010
| Cardiff goes for Shared Use | Headlines |
Cyclists will share the main pedestrianised routes through the city centre the head of transport has said today. See full story in the Guardian
16th August 2010
| All the news from Sheffield | Headlines |
CycleSheffield has a new email newsletter. Go to their website home page and enter your email address in the box, and they will send you all the news from the UK's foremost cycling city once a week. Enjoy!
17th August 2010
| A message from Newcastle | Headlines |
Katja writes:-
Many thanks for giving us a warm welcome in your news section: http://www.cyclenation.org.uk/news.php. Could I be picky and bring to your attention that the link to the Newcastle Cycling Campaign website appears faulty, it should be set to http://newcycling.org.uk (My name is spelled Katja not Katje.)
This does however not distract from our delight that we get your support by including us on your website! We shall reciprocate on our website as we are really happy to have Cyclenation affiliation! Many thanks indeed.
We are happy to print this correction.
30th August 2010
| Velo-city presentations online | Headlines |
The velo-city 2010 presentations are now online at the conference website
31st August 2010
| Cycling England Under Threat? | Headlines |
Funding for all of the many cycling projects funded by the government through Cycling England are under threat following the policy of a severe reduction in public expenditure. Indeed the future of Cycling England may be under threat though no decision has yet been made on it.
Cyclenation along with Cambridge Cycling Campaign is mounting a campaign letter to save Cycling England.
Please visit the site again in the week commencing 9th August to find out more.
To find out more about Cycling England click here
6th September 2010
| Save Cycling England Campaign Launched | Headlines |
Cyclenation along with Cambridge Cycling Campaign is mounting a national campaign to save funding for Cycling England. Please visit
The Save Cycling England Website and encourage your campaign group to get involved by contacting your MP.
Christian Wolmar has also written an open letter to Norman Baker article on the subject which you can find at here.
12th September 2010
| Travel Actively report available | Headlines |
The second annual monitoring report from Travel Actively is now available to read online.
Travel Actively projects reached almost 160,000 people in 2009, providing opportunities to become more physically active through active travel.
Travel Actively is a portfolio of 50 projects from the Active Travel Consortium that addresses health and wellbeing through regular walking and cycling across England.
The consortium is a partnership of the leading walking, cycling and health organisations, each dedicated to promoting active travel.
Building on the proven experience within the consortium of generating lasting behaviour change, projects focus on regular journeys in local areas – such as to work, school or the shops – and address people’s motivation for walking and cycling. These projects will generate a body of evidence to show how regular active travel can have a positive impact on health and well-being.
This £30 million programme, of which more than £19.9m has come from the Big Lottery Fund’s Well-being Fund, focuses upon sedentary and traditionally hard-to-reach audiences who have the greatest potential for change and the biggest health gains.
You can read the report online at http://www.travelactively.org.uk/
28th September 2010
| Cycling England Goes but Bikeability saved | Headlines |
Cyclenation has supported Cambridge Cycle Campaign's efforts to Save Cycling England - Norman Baker MP has now responded to the campaign - here's what he says:
Well done to everyone who participated in the campaign - we may not have succeeded in the primary objective but we have demonstrated the depth of feeling on this issue and ensured the continuance of the bikeability scheme.
24th October 2010
| Edinburgh conference programme released | Headlines |
Lothian Spokes has posted the programme for the Edinburgh CTC/Cyclenation conference, 6th Nov:-
24th October 2010
| Newsletter available | Headlines |
The latest edition of our newsletter is available from the Newsletters section
8th November 2010
| Cyclenation endorses cyclestreets.net | Headlines |
Cyclenation has adopted http://www.cyclestreets.net as its preferred online mapping solution (partly because one of our member groups - Cambridge - developed it with our help and support - also because we think its the best online cycle mapping solution available in the UK). That means we will not endorse any other online cycle mapping facility.
19th November 2010
| Cyclenation supports stricter liability | Headlines |
Cyclenation supports the principle of stricter liability for motorists who are involved in collisions with vulnerable road users. It is important to recognise the difference between liability and culpability, and it is also important that this principle also applies to cyclists who collide with pedestrians - for insurance purposes it would be assumed that the cyclist was at fault.
Cyclenation proposes to make this a key campaign issue for 2011.
2nd December 2010
| Statement on "Crap cycling in Waltham Forest" | Headlines |
Cyclenation has issued a statement about disparaging remarks made on the "Crap Cycling in Waltham Forest" blog. You can read the statement here
14th December 2010