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With fuel prices on the rise, rail strikes and a cost-of-living crisis, cycling is a great alternative for short journeys. Despite this, many women are put off getting in the saddle. Cycling UK’s digital communications and media officer Lauren Brooks considers why
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Cycling UK's round-up of recent campaigning news
It’s starting to feel like some aspects of ‘normal’ life are returning, with schools reopening fully and people being encouraged to start to go back into work. Unfortunately, we’ve also seen road traffic has already returned to the same…
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Northern Ireland’s Department for Infrastructure (DfI), which is responsible for promoting active travel and developing better infrastructure for active travel, fails to deliver promises in recent proposed strategy, says Cycling UK
Cycling UK calls for DfI to review proposed Road Safety…
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A ban on pavement parking, high quality cycling infrastructure, a 20mph limit on local streets and an overhaul of the Highway Code are amongst measures recommended today (Thursday, June 28) in a new manifesto from an alliance of the UK’s major organisations dedicated to walking and cycling…
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As Hampshire Constabulary rolls out its latest "Give Space, Be Safe" campaign, they advise all drivers to give space when overtaking and to "remember that any cyclist you overtake could be our police cyclist.”
Hampshire Constabulary’s Joint Operations Road Policing Unit has…
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Cycling UK believes the Government should introduce new design measures and rules to give cyclists and pedestrians greater safety and priority at both unsignalised and signalised junctions. This article explains why and how.
Update: 28 July 2020
Since this article first appeared,…
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For the fourth in a series of blogs outlining some key proposals included in Cycling UK’s response to the Government’s review of cycling and pedestrian safety, campaigns officer Keir Gallagher discusses how three simple changes to the Highway Code could help tackle some of the most persistent acts of bad driving in the UK, creating safer roads and encouraging more cycling…
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Highway Code changes, what’s fact and fiction? What’s the media misreporting, and how do we rebut this? Cycling UK's head of campaigns, Duncan Dollimore busts some of the myths
The line that a lie can travel halfway round the world before the truth puts on its shoes could have been…
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Sam Boulton was tragically killed in 2016 when the passenger in a parked private hire vehicle, Mandy Chapple, opened the offside rear door, knocking Sam off his bike and into the path of a Citroen van.
It was the day of his 26th birthday.
Every year, a ride is led by Sam’s family in his memory, and to highlight the dangers of car-dooring.
Following his death,…
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Statistics for cycling in Wales show a disturbing trend as cycling casualties increase, as CTC Cymru calls for the Welsh Government to make good on the ambitions contained in the Active Travel Act Wales.
The Welsh Government has recently published figures showing that the number of killed…
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