Improving cycle journey planning in Scotland – with Cycling Scotland

We're pleased to announce that we are working with Cycling Scotland to enhance cycle journey planning in Scotland! Cycling Scotland, the organisation charged with getting more Scots on their bikes, runs a range of initiatives such as Bikeability Scotland, the freshnlo Pedal for Scotland bike ride, cycle instructor training and more. They are keen to […]

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Press release: CycleStreets’ cycling project to face Dragon’s Den -style contest

A Cambridge-based project to improve cycling around the Britain has reached the finals of a national funding contest, GeoVation, run by the Ordnance Survey. GeoVation aims to combine Geography and Innovation to help fund ideas which will help improve transport of various kinds. The bid by Cambridge-based CycleStreets, who run the UK-wide cycle journey planner […]

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New ‘cycle to us’ links – techy work in progress

A techy post reporting on some work in progress, and seeking suggestions! … A while back we introduced various new URL formats like: http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/to/SW1A+2AA/ which would allow someone at that postcode to put a link 'cycle here' on their website. This is designed so that the user needing to plan a journey would just follow […]

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Wider use of DfT data

Over the last year and half, the DfT has been collecting cycling data for use in its TransportDirect portal. We received today a letter from Norman Baker MP confirming that it is the DfT's intention to open this dataset, in line with the new government's principles on transparency. We think this is an excellent development. It […]

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Going to Glastonbury Festival? Cycle there!

I'm a huge fan of the Glastonbury Festival, the UK's best music and culture festival in the UK. And this area of Somerset is a wonderful place to cycle around. The Festival has plenty of bike culture around – check out these photos of the Festival on our Photomap and this review of Bikes at Glastonbury […]

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