Today is our second birthday – CycleStreets was launched on 20th March 2009. The last year has seen a huge amount of development work, leading to new features, speed improvements, and more. However, the next six months will be even busier as the project really ramps up! In the first year, CycleStreets planned 67,000 routes. […]
CycleStreets’ bid to GeoVation shortlisted
We're pleased to announce that our GeoVation bid, 'Helping Campaigners Campaign' has been shortlisted from the 155 ideas submitted to GeoVation! The proposal is for an extensive suite of tools that will really help cycling campaigners around the UK – people who are already enthused – to be more effective in their work. It will […]
Helping campaigners campaign: our GeoVation challenge bid
Cycling in the Netherlands happens because of bike-friendly culture and excellent infrastructure. Let's face it – cycling conditions in the UK need to be improved massively. Cycle lanes that end unexpectedly, roads shared with lorries and traffic fumes, non-existent cycle parking. Any cyclist can give you a catalogue of problems that need tackling. The end result […]
CycleStreets: Our Story – presentation to Net2Camb event
We really enjoyed the January Net2Camb Meetup event, where one of our lead developers, Martin, gave a talk 'Our Story'. Thanks to Claire for organising the event and everyone who came! It was particularly enjoyable as it was a rare opportunity to talk about the business and competition aspects of CycleStreets, about the challenges we face, […]
Design/usability improvements
Over the last month or so we've rolled out a range of usability-orientated design improvements to the Journey Planner and the Photomap. We'd like to do much more, but funding has not yet permitted this (see our funding drive). These improvements complete the areas covered by our Sustainable City Grant, which funded a range of improvements […]
A year of photos from CycleStreets
CycleStreets, the cycle journey planning people, will this year be publishing a photo a day – from the CycleStreets Photomap containing over 25,000 cycling-related photos submitted by our users. Either by checking the front page of the site, or by following the @CycleStreets channel on Twitter, people will get our selection of the best photo […]
CycleParking4London update
London Cycling Campaign's www.cycleparking4london.org.uk website, which we helped create, is continuing to see requests for new cycle parking locations pouring in. The site enables members of the public to submit suggestions of places needing cycle parking, which will then be used by local campaigners. As well as going to the main site itself, you can use the […]
New cycle parking website for London launched
We're proud to announce the launch of a website we helped create for London Cycling Campaign: www.cycleparking4london.org.uk specifically, the 'suggest a location' page. The design of the site and other content is by LCC itself. The site enables members of the public to submit suggestions of places needing cycle parking, which will then be used […]
CyclingSorted.org – new site for Cambridgeshire County Council
We’re helping get Cycling Sorted, thanks to a new site we’ve created for Cambridgeshire County Council which has recently been launched! Cycling Sorted is a project run by the Cycle Cambridge team at Cambridgeshire County Council to find out where you would like to make improvements to cycling facilities in Cambridge and the surrounding villages, in terms of new […]
What we’re working on …
This summer has been ridiculous busy for us. We've had a large number of projects, which has felt a little overwhelming at times! Simon is our 'routemaster', and he's been working solidly over recent months on a range of improvements to the journey planning engine: Main focus has been speeding up the routing engine performance. Thanks […]