Sheffield Emulates Cambridge on Signs

With reference to the Cyclists Give Way to Pedestrians signs appearing and written about here it is interesting that Cambridge has had something similar but just slightly more co-operative for ages - this is a step in a good direction IMHO

The Signpost to More People Cycling More Safely More Often

http://axelrod.plus.com/ppmw/images/9/9e/Poster.pdf

(Our entry for the Cambridge Cycle Campaign Conference Poster Competition)

On your bike with Eurostar

From the Eurostar website:

From 7 April you will be able to reserve a place for your bike *on the same train that you are travelling on*. (This is subject to space being available). This service operates on our London, Paris and Brussels routes only and will give you added assurance of knowing that your bike is travelling with you.

You can make a reservation or find out more about this service by calling us on 08705 850 850 or visit the EuroDespatch Centre in person at St Pancras International. Charges are £20 one way and it’s necessary to quote your Eurostar reference or show your ticket.

This puts Eurostar on parity with low cost airlines such as Ryanair on cycle carriage, but with the benefit of offering you a carbon neutral journey.

This change in policy has come about as the result of sustained lobbying by cycle campaigners such as the CTC and Camden Cycle Campaign. (If Eurostar had realised that by moving to St Pancras they came under the purview of Camden CC they might have decided to stay put! )

==posted by Simon==

Funding Confirmed for Supertram Specials

Funding confirmed for Supertram Specials

Steve Marsden, our new CTC Cycling Development Officer for South Yorkshire, has gained agreement to make up any shortfall in cost for the Supertram Specials onwards - we just need to send him numbers of people and their names and postcodes as outcomes for his job, plus some photos for publicity.

Hope to see lots of you enjoying and supporting the Cyclists' Special on March 30th.

(p.s. If you need to drive your bikes to Cathedral to take part in this event, see this map for parking. However, please cycle if you can - traffic is light in Sheffield City Centre on sunday morning and we'd like to keep it that way!)

European Mobility Week Award 2008

Amazingly, the UK winner is... SHEFFIELD

press release here http://tinyurl.com/22sczd

pics and poem by the Bard of Barnsley here: http://tinyurl.com/2yb7k2

press releases from all ten winning towns and cities here:
http://www.mobilityweek.eu/Mobility-Week-Award-2008

blog here: http://www.mobilityweek.eu/blog/

The press release says "The city of Sheffield permanently closed a busy street to motorised traffic and installed cycle stands." Perhaps someone from the council can tell us what street that was exactly?

===posted by Simon===

Cycle Safety Plea

Cycling has made the front page of the Sheffield Telegraph.

The headline is "Cycle Safety Plea - Motorists urged to take more care as road toll rises"

This is the follow-on from the presentation by Road Safety at the last Cycle Forum.

Not online - 80p from your newsagent

Simon

A Cautionary Trail

Out of our area, but!

This is the proposed new route for cyclists to replace the A3 at Hindhead
(the Devils Punchbowl) :
















Apparently the National Trust use it to wash their
Land Rovers...
















The A3 is to be dualled at this location and put in a tunnel, avoiding
the scenic National Trust estate. All well and good, but what cyclists wanted
was for a narrow section of the old A3 to be preserved as a cycle route.

All is not lost however as the Old Portsmouth Rd has been re-surfaced:-











(This would have been the route Nelson used when he went down to Portsmouth to join the fleet)