Greater Manchester Cycling Campaign

AB Thanks for pointing me towards your website www.thebuckstop.net for some background information about your world cycle tour.
I think it’s important that people hear about achievements such as yours so I’m glad that you agreed to do an interview.
Tours on an epic scale show that cycling is a viable means of transport.
I know [...]

Ernie Buck saw the Cycle Campaign Network (CCN) AGM launch a new development plan for the organisation.

Not to be confused with what causes Steve Jobs’ computers to crash, or a dose of gastroenteritis contracted after eating at a fast-food restaurant, the Macclesfield Borough Bicycle Users Group, MaccBUG for short, is an independent group of local cyclists with a common goal of encouraging more people to do more cycling in the ancient [...]

Ex-pat Polly Low reports from Washington DC.

America’s love affair with the car is the stuff of legend. So it’s both a surprise and something of an embarrassment for a Mancunian to arrive in the capital city of this gas-guzzling, SUV-worshipping country, and find that the lot of the cyclist here is, in many ways, [...]

From A comparison of transport in Europe
Has anyone else noticed the uncanny resemblence between per-capita rates of bicycle use across Europe and the Happiness League Table as published in this BBC story ? Perhaps by chance they are related.

The guest speaker at GMCC’s AGM on 12th March is Manchester-based sustainable transport expert Richard Armitage who’ll talk about the city of Groningen in the Netherlands, probably the most bicycle-friendly city in the world.

This will follow the brief AGM formalities, including the annual reports by officers, and the election of a Secretary, Treasurer, Membership Secretary [...]

picture courtesy & © Roger Vaughan

GMCC attended the annual CTC conference in November in the genteel surroundings of Edwardian Cheltenham. Over a 100 cyclists from around the country attended the event to hear the latest in cycling policy, planning and campaigning.
Featured at the conference was a new function on the CTC website to report potholes [...]

Last June, Transport for London announced that the number of cycle journeys made in London had increased by 67 per cent during the past five years, and that the number of people killed on London’s roads fell by 21 per cent last year. In December, a report for the National Audit Office showed that [...]

This article is in the Not Manchester category, which features bicycle stories about other places, that may or may not say something about cycling in Greater Manchester by way of comparison.
Perth, Western Australia is a big, modern, sprawling metropolis where, not surprisingly, the private car rules. Nevertheless, the WA regional government is making a pretty [...]

Several German cities now feature Call a Bike schemes, run by Deutsche Bahn - German Railways.

It works like this. First you have to phone the control center and give them your credit card details. Then you find one of the distinctive red and silver Call a Bikes. There seem to be lots of them in [...]