Liverpool ‘City Bike’ launches next month

Liverpool’s ‘Boris bike’-style hire scheme, the biggest outside London, will be known as City Bike when it launches next month. The name was chosen following a public vote, beating off…

Bristol Cycle Festival returns in July

Bristol’s 2014 cycling festival has been confirmed for 5th–13th July. The week-long festival is one of the largest in Britain. Last year’s event included guided rides, bike maintenance courses, talks…

Mornington Crescent: game over for dangerous junction

Cobden Junction in Camden, next to the famous Mornington Crescent tube station, is to become perhaps the first “cycle-proofed” junction in Britain. A new layout will mean that, for the…

Cambridge City Deal could mean go-ahead for Chisholm Trail

Cambridge cyclists’ long-held ambition for a cycleway beside the railway line, the ‘Chisholm Trail’, could finally come to fruition. As part of the Cambridge City Deal, announced today, Cambridgeshire councils…

Swindon primary wins bike-to-school prize

A Swindon school has won Sustrans’ annual competition for the number of kids cycling to school every day. Ferndale Primary School won the 2014 ‘Big Pedal’ by a clear margin…