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Despite the cold and wet weather we had lots of people come to see us at Ely market today. Everyone we talked to was supportive and welcomed what we’re campaigning for.

We’re launching the cycling strategy we have put together for the north western half of East Cambridgeshire around Ely. You can read it online here or download the PDF version.

While looking for images for our strategy I noticed something interesting. A search for images of “family cycling” gives a very different set of results from a search for “dutch family cycling”.

It’s now nearly a year since the district council announced that there would be a consultation on how the £600,000 of Sainsbury’s S106 would be spent. During last summer there were several consultation exercises including online questionnaires and stakeholder meetings. We were included in this process and like many others gave up our free time to attendContinue reading “What is the Sainsbury’s money being spent on?”

This map of road casualties between 2000 and 2010 within Ely clearly shows where cyclists need improvements most.

We’ve had two lots of news in the last week about funding for cycling in and around Ely.

A free family event on Mayday, Monday May the 5th

So after the anti-social cycling furore last year the council had said it would fix the incorrect signs along the river which if taken literally mean “No No Cycling”. However while walking along the river yesterday (13th Jan 2013) I noticed the incorrect signs are still up.

20’s Plenty for Us is contributing to collecting 1 million signatures for a European Citizen’s Initiative (ECI) proposing a default, Europe wide, 20mph (30kph) speed limit for built up areas. The initiative is a people-powered call for 20mph to be the default European speed limit for built up areas. The success of 20’s Plenty in the UK is part ofContinue reading “Initiative for a Europe wide default 20mph speed limit for built up areas”

Wide area 20 mph limits are extremely popular. Furthermore, approval levels rise, validating the policy’s implementation.  No humps are needed.   Councillors increasingly receive 20mph limit requests and petitions. Resident approval is strong and it rises after wide area signed 20mph limits are put in.  In Bristol 20 mph’s popularity has gone up significantly since the pilots.