Exeter Cycling Campaign - speaking up for Everyday cycling to be Safe, Convenient & Connected in and around Exeter. Also at @exetercycling.bsky.social
Exeter, England
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What is the Exeter cycling Campaign?
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We are a registered charity working to ensure our lovely city thrives & that people are enabled to cycle, scoot & walk.
We believe that cycling to school, work or the shops should not require bravery.
RT welcome 😀
ALT child cycles on safe cycle track beside main road
If you think we've gone quiet on here - it's because we are migrating our content to Blue Sky. We hope to see you there. Follow us on
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Check out our latest newsletter with key information about the Boniface Trail. Why not encourage a cycling friend or colleague to sign up for our emails? It'd be great to have more people on board. us13.campaign-archive.com/?u…
ALT A man cycles along with a 6 foot high stack of newspapers on his back rack. Another man sits on the newspapers reading one. Vintage image, source unknown.
Saving the world, one bike ride at a time.
Bicycles save lives: How bikes have been critical after the Valencia floods trib.al/jHRsrox
👇Call for evidence-based policy
@ExeterStreets volunteers used publicly available data to analyse the speed of 800 buses on Heavitree Fore St. 🧵
ALT A scatterplot graph. The y axis is speed and the x axis is time of day. Each dot represents a bus. ~There are 800 dots. The caption is Bus speeds along bus lane on Heavitree Fore Street
Inspiring day today at @activedevon's Moving Communities conference at Sandy Park. Brilliant speakers and sessions. Thank you @Chris_Boardman, active travel and disability advocates, health professionals and educators for sharing your insight and wisdom.
activedevon.org/introducing-…
We have just three weeks left to send in our response to the Devon County Council consultation on routes for the Boniface Trail (Crediton to Exeter) - devon.gov.uk/.../consultatio…, so do let us know thoughts about our draft response by email to [email protected]
● Bring superceded structures, including a bridge over the River Yeo, back into beneficial use ● The opportunity to use existing verges to minimise the requirement to purchase land.
Many of the food delivery machines involved in close calls with pedestrians are not bicycles. They are illegal electric motorbikes. Not a cycling issue: a law enforcement issue. theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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We will take a look to see if a CYCLOPs junction would work in Exeter … Watch this space
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What a lovely name. The all ability cycling club.
We recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the All Ability Cycling Club.
Among the highlights was a speech by 91-year-old Maria, who helped establish the club in 2014 as a member of the Friends of Bush Hill Park.
Read Maria's story here: journeysandplaces.enfield.go…
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Also, NEVER FORGET that Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally AGAINST downtown bike-lanes, later became one of their most vigourous supporters, because of EVIDENCE that bike-lanes are better for downtown business than any street parking they replace.
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For context, this is the biggest annual reduction in road casualties ever seen in the UK (excl COVID)
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In Wales, crashes fell 24% after adopting a default urban speed limit of 20 mph.
nation.cymru/news/welsh-road…
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Please RT & sign.
Would you❤️a clear 🚲 lane in preference to dodging the traffic, car doors and vehicles crossing your path by the shops in Fore Street, Heavitree?
Sign this bus lane petition to make that more possible.
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