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As part of the North Ely development for 3000 houses the planning application for the new primary school has been submitted. The new school will be in an area between Cam Drive and Lynn Road, two major roads in Ely which connect to the A10 and have heavy lorry traffic and no usable cycle infrastructure.Continue reading “New school – Old mistakes”

We hear a lot from councillors about how they want to allow more people to cycle but it seems that when there is an opportunity to make a commitment they fall short. The CTC is now coordinating a national Space for Cycling (it started in London). The campaign has a simple message, provide space onContinue reading “Local councillors fail to support Space for Cycling”

The County Council are organising a “Velo Festival” this summer with a big event in Ely on Sunday June 1st in the Market Square, we’ll be there with a stall. Here’s the description from the official flyer Come and spend a fun packed afternoon at the first in a series of Bike Life events, where thereContinue reading “Velo Festival: Bike Life 2014 @Ely”

On the 28th November 2013 Ely Cycling Campaign contacted East Cambs. District Council to ask permission to site the County owned Car Shaped Cycle Rack in the Paradise Car Park outside where the “temporary” Post Office had been put up.Tracey Harding at East Cambs. informed us that the area was now under the control ofContinue reading “The Saga of the “Car shaped Cycle Rack””

Coincidentally two guides came out today written by cycling organisations aiming to provide guidance for cycling infrastructure. Sound similar, but they couldn’t be more different.

Specific cycle provision. The Framework Travel Plan talks a lot about discouraging car use and providing facilities cycling and walking but the details are currently lacking “6.1.4 Provision of Facilities for Cyclists & Pedestrians. To be agreed with the local authority once the development layout has been finalised.” We would expect to see separate cycleways,Continue reading “Our response to the Proposed Development off Field End, Witchford”

We welcome that the station development mentions cycling and walking throughout the documents and that the survey documents recognise that the cycle network in Ely is piecemeal and often sub-standard to non-existant. We wholly agree with the survey that much more needs to be done to encourage cycling in Ely, especially that an integrated networkContinue reading “Our response to the Ely Station Gateway Development”

You may have seen the notice outside Lloyds warning that the road will be closed overnight for 5 nights from the 17th. We understand that this is to replace the cobbles with something more cycle friendly. We’ve been campaigning for them to be replaced for a long time. We’ve been told by the council thatContinue reading “Is this the beginning of the end for the cobbles?”

We spoke at two Neighbourhood Panel meetings last week. One of the points we made was that we want to see changes that allow people to cycle. Note the emphasis there. We’re not campaigning to encourage, convince or force more people to cycle. We campaigning for changes that allow them to cycle.

Starting from February we’re planning to organise bi-monthly, cycling related talks. We hope they will be a chance to hear about a range of cycling related topics and afterwards to mingle, chat and have a drink. The first talk is on Monday February 17th in The Cutter at 7.30pm (talk starts around 8pm). The eventContinue reading “Cycle Talk: February 17th – Cambridge Cycling Campaign”