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The Newcastle 4 C's bike ride
I've always been slightly unclear about what the "4C"'s bit means something like Council Chiefs City Cycle ride or something like that. Anyway it happened last night, I went along and a BBC "Man on...
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Building UK Cycle Infrastructure - Where it all goes wrong
A few months ago I became embroiled in the design of a section of Newcastle Council's new "red" cycle route which runs through the city centre to the Tyne Bridge. The experience left me very...
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On the buses
Relations between cyclists and bus drivers have their comic moments, as well as downright scary moments. This morning I had to put up with what I'd call a pointless and scary overtake from two buses...
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Building a Coastal Bike Grid
Next week myself and Karlonsea are off to see the Transport Officer Head Honchos for North Tyneside. We met the Councillor and Cabinet member for Transport a few weeks back, but these are the guys who...
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Rolling Around The Cote D'Azur
blogThis week's installment comes to you live from the South of France. To set the scene I'm currently sat on a campsite on the Argens River which looks kinda like an American trailer park with trees,...
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The Changing Of The Guard
This blog post stems in part from a chat I had with Cllr Ed Hodson the Cabinet member for transport in my neck of the woods, which has already on been described in Karl McCracken's blog. Although Cllr...
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CycleNation
I'd never heard of this lot until a couple of years ago, they are the body that unites the various local bike campaigner groups around Britain. They went a bit haywire on twitter last night and posted...
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Big Roads - Small Minds
This blog is inspired by a news article out in the regional press today entitled "Second Tyne Tunnel will transform the region, predicts project MD". For those not familiar with this project a second...
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Newcastle Map Quiz
Can you guess what this map shows? Its from 2006 so a bit out of date, but the "hot spot" locations seem to strangely tie in with a little mental map I carry around with me entitled "there be wolves"
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Shopping
What to do about it? Newcastle Council apparently think that retail businesses will leave if the don't get free car parking, more on that latter. Kim Harding has suggested that the solution to...
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