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There is now an Ely branch of the national 20’s plenty campaign. They are aiming to get a 20mph speed limit for the whole of Ely, without traffic calming. This will they say give a 95% reduction in risk to walkers and cyclists, increase walking and cycling, reduce pollution, reduce noise, reduce fear and giveContinue reading “20’s plenty for Ely Campaign: Join now!”

Meeting organised by Patrick Joyce the County Council’s Cycling Officer to discuss cycling issues in and around Ely. There were presentations and updates from Greater Anglia, Travel for Work Partnership, Sustrans, Bike It, Ely Cycling Campaign and the County Council’s Road Safety Engineering Team.

This Ely City Centre Forum is a group of representatives of all groups and sectors with an interest in the effective management of Ely City Centre. It has come out of the recommendations in the Portas Review (see here) The meeting was the first for the ‘Town Team’ mentioned in these recommendations.

Greater Anglia have been really brilliant and put up a big poster publicising the campaign for us. Did you see it? Well if you did and have ended up here, welcome. If you want to know more about the campaign there are more details here. We have 4 campaign projects, one being a dedicated cycleContinue reading “Do you want better cycle routes to the station?”

As part of the Cambridgeshire Competes project, Ely Museum is running an exhibition on cycling from 16th June – 19th August (Mon-Sat 10.30 – 5.00 Sun 1.00 – 5.00) Cambridgeshire Competes is a project linking museums and sports centres across Cambridgeshire and Peterborough http://www.cambridgeshirecompetes.org.uk/ On Saturday 7th July 11.00 – 4.00 there is a family friendly open eventContinue reading “Ely Museum Celebrates Cycling”

The Ely Cycling Campaign is organising a family bike ride around Ely on 15 July 2012. This will be a leisurely ride around Ely for adults and children with many playground stops and a picnic (bring your own) in Ely Country Park (Pocket Park) by the river.

After a really positive meeting with ECDC Community Safety Officer Nick Ball earlier this week we’ve posted on ShapeYourPlace regarding improved signage on the Back Hill / Broad Street junction. As part of our project to improve cycle orientated signage across Ely we want to make motorists more aware of cyclists as they turn into andContinue reading “ShapeYourPlace – Back Hill / Broad Street signs”

Patrick Joyce, the County Cycling Officer, is organising a second meeting of the Ely Cycle Forum for 10th July at 7:15 pm in the Captains Lounge of the Cutter Inn We’ll be there to explain who we are and what we’re trying to do.

Have your say on whether a 20mph city-wide speed limit would be a good idea for Ely in this Shape Your Place poll We think it would make Ely a more pleasant place to live, make the roads safer for vulnerable groups and encourage more people to cycle, so we’re all in favour. What doContinue reading “Is 20 plenty for Ely?”

Yesterday were the district council meetings to discuss the £500k of Sainsbury’s S106 money, it was all quite positive from our point of view. The afternoon session started with some interesting statistics in the opening presentation: The percentage of cyclists in the city centre is 1% compared to 21% pedestrians. Even (in my view) veryContinue reading “Ely Traffic and Environment Study Stakeholder Workshops”