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East Midlands Cycle Event
Derby, Saturday 6th May 2006
Derby Cycling Group
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East Midlands Cycle Event
• Derby Cycling Group• Cycle Demonstration Towns• An East Midlands cycle campaign?• Cycling trends in selected towns• Building an East Midlands cycle
campaign
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1 The Derby Cycling Group
• Aims• Structure• Strategies
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Aims
• To increase levels of cycling- enjoyment, health, economy, environment
• To achieve modal shift from car to bike- improving conditions for cycling
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Structure
• High membership (~500) – low subscription
• Chair, Secretary, Treasurer + committee elected very year at AGM
• Monthly meetings throughout the year
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Strategies
• Campaigning to achieve better cycling conditions and raise cycling up the political agenda
• Promoting cycling to the general public
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Campaigning - the political agenda
• Quarterly meetings with city council • Consultative report writing• Representation on many different
organisations• Web site and quarterly e-newsletter
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Promoting cycling to the general public
• Dr Bike Clinics• information stalls• cycle parks• cycle tryouts at public events• short, family friendly, cycle rides –
aimed at the less confident cyclist
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2 Cycle Demonstration Towns
• Cycling England (Department for Transport) initiative
• Very limited levels of cycling despite investment in infrastructure
• Focus resources onto selected target populations of 100,000
• Derby’s bid targeted at under 25s
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Derby as a Cycle Demonstration Town
• £1.5m from Cycling England, match funded to £3m, for 3 years, for:
• cycle training in primary schools • after school cycle clubs• better information and new city cycle route map • cycle rides and events throughout the year• increased cycle storage at schools• filling in gaps in the cycle network• improving cycle route signing• bicycle recycling scheme and a city centre bike park
- overall, programme aimed at ‘hearts and minds’ rather than simply providing more infrastructure
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3 An East Midlands cycle campaign?
Why? –• Transportation policy and planning
increasingly at a regional level• Success in Derby may ultimately mean
more government investment for cycling
• Share experiences and gain mutual benefits
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4 Cycling trends in selected towns
• Cycling trends since 1971• Transport to work census data
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Percentage of workforce cycling to work in Derby, Leicester, Nottingham, 1971-2001 (Data Source: Census of England & Wales, 1971, 1981,1991, 2001)
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Derby
Leicester
Nottingham
England&Wales
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Percentage of workforce travelling to work by car (driver or passenger) in Derby, Leicester, Nottingham,
1971-2001 (Data Source: Census of England & Wales, 1971, 1981,1991, 2001)
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1971 1981 1991 2001
Derby
Leicester
Nottingham
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Percentage of workforce cycling to work in York, Cambridge, Oxford & Hull 1971-2001
(Data Source: Census of England & Wales, 1971, 1981,1991, 2001)
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1971 1981 1991 2001
Cambridge
York
Oxford
Hull
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Percentage of workforce cycling to work in the six cycle demonstration towns, 1971-2001
(Data Source: Census of England & Wales, 1971, 1981,1991, 2001)
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AylesburyBrightonDarlingtonDerbyExeterLancaster
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Percentage of workforce cycling to work in Hackney, Inner London, England & Wales 1971-2001
(Data Source: Census of England & Wales, 1971, 1981,1991, 2001)
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HackneyInner LonEng&Wal
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5 Building an East Midlands cycle campaign?
• Need to reverse the declining cycling trends
• Recognise that -• today’s school children – tomorrow’s
workforce• cycling must continue into adulthood• must convert car journeys to work
(school/shops etc) to cycle journeys
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Barriers to cycling
• inadequate and inappropriate infrastructure?
• marginalisation of cycling in transportation planning?
• lack of safety and security?• lack of cycle training?• predominance of the car based
economy?
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Cycling faces:
- Rising sea of motorised traffic- Ever cheaper car travel- No effective means of demand
management
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Consequences -• Cycle infrastructure/training cannot compete
with ever growing car traffic• Leisure cycling to the rescue?????
– does it really lead to utility, car replacing cycling????
• Must focus campaigns on transportation policies that control car use
• Exhortations about health, environment, economy will not do!
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• “if the quantum leap in cycling that is required is to occur the message about the safety and health benefits [of cycling] must be received and accepted by the general and in particular the car-addicted population as a more than viable alternative to total car dependency” (Chief Executive, Cycling England, Choosing Cycling, Choosing Health Conference, 4th April, Nottingham)
• But this quantum leap is highly unlikely to occur as long as car use remains virtually unrestrained?
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Transportationpolicy
CommunityCycling
CyclingInfrastructure
Three pronged regional cycle campaign
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Transportationpolicy
CommunityCycling
CyclingInfrastructure
Three pronged regional cycle campaign
RegionalGovernment
Office
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What might the campaign do?
• Will whatever it does create modal shift from car? -• combat road expansion plans in East Midlands• co-ordinated campaign for increased parking
restrictions in urban areas• support speed restrictions in all urban residential
areas• help promote car free home zones• better cycle access to all train stations
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How might the campaign develop?
work through EMTARS and CTC?
Website? e-Newsletter?
meetings? events?regional city cycle workshops?
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Who might be involved?
• All cycle campaign groups• Sustrans and the CTC• Sports cycling groups• Mountain Biking groups• i.e. everyone who is involved in anyway
with cycling
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Summary: 4 key points
• 1 not just more cycling needed but more cycling as replacement for car journeys
• 2 focusing on infrastructure and ‘hearts and minds’ alone will not be enough
• 3 must also campaign on overall transportation policy – demand management
• 4 need to draw together the all the disparate cycling groups in the region
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Summary: 5 final thoughts
1 what use is it if levels of cycling increase but only by abstraction from those who walk or use (ever more expensive!) public transport?
2 what use is leisure cycling if it does not lead to car replacing utility cycling?
3 if a reduction in (ever cheaper!) car travel is achieved, then is not cycling only one of three options for those leaving the car behind; walking and public transport are the other two?
4 suppose car use really does decline and yet still nobody cycles as the walking and public transport options are resorted to instead. Could not the objectives of cycling – enjoyment, health, economy and environment - still be realised?
5 so just what are cycle campaigners, campaigning for and why?
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East Midlands Cycle Event
Derby, Saturday 6th May 2006
The Derby Cycling Group