“We couldn’t have wished for a more illuminating start to our Get Britain Cycling inquiry…” Ian Austin MP said when summing up the first session of the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group’s Get Britain Cycling inquiry. The full text of the APPCG press release is below… Political leadership is needed to ‘Get Britain Cycling’ Leadership from the top […]
A study by researchers from University College London has found that cycling is safer than driving for young males, with 17 to 20 year old drivers facing almost five times greater risk per hour than cyclists of the same age. Researchers used hospital admissions data over a two-year period and National Travel Survey data in […]
To encourage more Manchester residents to cycle the Council has developed a cycle strategy that sets out their vision for cycling. Click here to download the Interim Strategy for Cycling in Manchester 2012-2013 (7.38 MB PDF)
The government has announced £20million to fund improvements to cycling infrastructure across England. The news came on the same day that the government health advisory body, the National Institute for Clinical Health and Excellence (NICE), issued a report urging people to walk and cycle for short journeys. Click here to read the Department for Transport […]
A new national poll has found that more than half the country has been inspired to get on their bikes following the success of the British Olympic Cycling team. Research by the London School of Economics has also revealed a new attitude to cycling among Britons, with more taking part in mass bike rides, going […]
In the second of GMCC’s series of interviews offering an outside eye on Manchester’s cycling culture, we hear from adopted Mancunian Lorenza Casini, an Architect and campaigner who mixes with Manchester’s motors on a daily basis. Ask where in Italy she is from and Lorenza will tell you she has lived in so many towns, […]
PopUp Bikes cafe, run by a GMCC member, is Manchester’s staffed, indoor cycle parking facility
GMCC campaigner Vincent Walsh reports on the city’s most compact hire scheme
Visiting postgraduate Anne Berg shares her first impressions of cycling in England’s second city.
Dave Barker writes about riding through the time of car. His thoughts and insights take us from cycling clubs in the 1950s through to 2010/11.
