Friday, 1 February 2008

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