Strategy

The health benefits

Cycling is an easy and low-impact activity which can significantly improve individual fitness and which has the potential to have a major impact on public health.

It can help to reduce the risk of a range of health problems, notably heart disease and cancer, the leading preventable causes of
premature death.

Fairness in a Car Dependent Society, finds that vulnerable groups not only travel less than other people, they carry a greater burden of the costs of other people’s travel, including air pollution, noise, traffic danger, injury and crime. Other findings include:

Embassy minutes (first draft) for you to pick apart and destroy!

This article shows how the Netherlands, Denmark and Germany have made
bicycling a safe, convenient and practical way to get around their cities. The analysis relies on national aggregate data as well as case studies of large and small cities in each country.

Copenhagen is known far and wide as the “City of Cyclists” – due to its longstanding and lively cycling tradition and, in recent years, its City Bikes.

Cambridge Cycle Campaign vision for 2020. A great example of a professionally put together strategy document.

This briefing, from Cambridge Cycling Campaign sets out our aspirations
for the new developments being planned for the Cambridge sub-region.
In it, we summarise the best way to provide for cycling in these new developments.
Cycling fits perfectly with a range of national policy on transport, health, the environment and CO2 reduction; it also dovetails well with the government’s desire for ‘eco-towns’.

Draft Manifesto for Inaugural Meeting

Agenda for start up meeting to be held at Look Mum No Hands!, London on 29th January 2011 starting at 12 noon.