…because using a car is too expensive for local journeys, says the latest user research.
Spiralling motoring costs and increasing financial worries are leading to an upsurge in the number of those using the UK’s National Cycle Network.
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Sustrans recruiting I Bike cycling officer
27/06/2011Sustrans are currently looking to recruit an I Bike cycling officer to work in Fife with a focus on Kirkcaldy.
In an utterly inspired initiative to get kids fired up to cycle to school (but not like this), Cycling Scotland’s Cycle to School campaign brought the Riderz stunt team to Lochgilphead Joint Campus yesterday (21 June 2011).
The Royal Highland Show is about much more than livestock, trade, food and farming equipment. Cycling Scotland were also at Ingliston, encouraging youngsters to hop on their bikes and enjoy Scotland’s great outdoors.
Members of the Scottish Parliament have given their backing to a campaign seeking to get bus operators to allow bicycles to be carried on them.
While the issue has been raised as a result of the difficulty of reaching the Glentrees mountain bike centre near Peebles, south of Edinburgh, which cannot be accessed by train from the capital, bus operators throughout the country are being urged to allow bicycles to be carried.
The CTC and Sustrans have combined with a number of environmental and safety organisations to fight Government proposals to allow longer lorries on to Britain’s roads as a means of cutting congestion.
If you like to go by bike and you’re one of the growing number of Android users in the UK, then good news: Cyclestreets, the Cambridge-based UK cycle routing outfit whose systems power the Bike Hub app, have released a fully-featured routing app for Android phones. It’s available now on the Android Market.
Cutty Sark Bike Powered Cinema screenings
22/06/2011
Cutty Sark Blended Scotch Whisky and the Edinburgh International Film Festival are launching a day of Cutty Sark Bike Powered Cinema screenings which will be shown on a sustainable bike powered mobile cinema in the heart of the city.
Following the viral response one cyclist filmed after being ticketed for not riding in a bike lane in New York, a visiting Dutch cyclist, Jasmijn Rijcken reported she’d been confronted by a police officer, then threatened with a ticket for wearing a skirt. The problem, according to police officer, was that a cyclist in a skirt was distracting, and therefore dangerous to motorists and other road users.
Sister of Duchess of Cambridge predictably grabs plenty of press attention
What better poster for women’s cycling could there be than press-darling Pippa Middleton, sister of the recently-wed Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, taking part in the past weekend’s Highland Cross Duathlon?
