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newsnet 06.09.06    

The weekly newsletter for members of CTC

 

 

News

 

Bikeability is here!

CTC is delighted to welcome the arrival of Bikeability, Cycle Proficiency for the 21st century, which was officially in launched Merseyside today. Bikeability is the new award scheme for National Standard cycle training and will provide a high quality consumer product which will help drive uptake of training amongst both adults and children and go a significant way to achieving the aims of ‘more people cycling, more safely, more often’.  Read more.

 

CTC funded for climate change awareness campaign

CTC has been awarded £296,000 by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to run a campaign increasing awareness and understanding of climate change amongst cyclists. One of the biggest recipients from Defra’s Climate Challenge Fund, CTC was one of 70 organisations to receive funding out of 500 who applied. At the centre of the campaign will be a short ad, to be shown in cinemas and elsewhere starting next summer. You can read more about the project here.

 

In Cyclists we trust

With trust worthy of a Saint, Cycle retailer Halfords has launched borrowthebike.com – placing 10 individually named orange bikes around the streets of London. They’re not locked to anything and anyone is welcome to take them, ride them around and supposedly drop them off somewhere else when they’re finished. In comparison with Copenhagen’s free city bike scheme, and knowing the assiduity of London bike thieves, one questions how many of these bikes will make it to the end the trial period when they will be donated to the charity Bikes4Africa.

 

ATOC National Cycle Rail Awards

Today’s the day! the deadline for nominations and entries for the annual ATOC National Cycle Rail Awards is today (Friday 8 September). If you have any last minute thoughts on any individual, railway station, train operator or local government that merits an award submit them now. Full details of the categories and criteria, electronic versions of the entry and nomination forms can be found on the awards’ website: www.cyclerail.co.uk If you need a little more time contact Vicky Ungless on 01444 473588

 

 

What’s on?

 

Challenge Yourself

The last CTC Challenge Ride of the season takes place on Sunday, so you still have time to get involved - you’re welcome to register on the day. The Southern Challenge starting in East Grinstead offers a range of routes 150km, 115km and 80km around the Ashdown Forest and follows roads used by Le Tour en Angleterre and the Pru Tour. The CTC Challenge series raise funds for CTC Charitable Trust. For details click here

 

Paris –Dakar, could you?

Paris – Dakar by bike starts on Sunday.  This monumental 7000km (4350 miles) test of endurance takes in six countries, over 10 weeks in 58 stages.  Beginning in Paris on Sunday, the riders will head on through France, Andorra, Spain, Morocco and Mauritania before finishing in Dakar, Senegal. For more information sign up for their mailing here

 

In your area…

The CTC online events page is regularly updated. Find cycling events in your area here

 

 

Products

 

Sacré bleu

The new and updated 2006/2007 version of the French Guide Touristique de Veloroutes et Voies Vertes is now available.  The 80 page Guide of the French National Cycle Network lists more than 150 routes  divided into French regions and contains a full-colour map.  The Guide is only available in French (assistance with translation can be provided by contacting CTC's help desk) and can be ordered for 6 Euros plus 1.45 Euros postage from here (order form in English available). 

 

CTC Campaigns

 

Share the road” must be even-handed

Transport for London’s “Share the Road” campaign to promote respect for the rules of the road among drivers and cyclists alike, has borne a crop of unbalanced anti-cyclist headlines. CTC remains supportive of “Share the Road” and agree that all road users, cyclists included, should respect the rules of the road and one another’s safety.  However, without endorsing law-breaking cyclists, the reasons for their actions (e.g. the much greater dangers they themselves experience at the hands of lawless drivers) need to be recognised and acted on if Ken’s campaign is to be effective.  Read more, or see a joint statement on “Share the Road” from a range of cycling, pedestrian and sustainable transport interest groups.

 

Personalised approach to reducing car travel yields spectacular results

Sustrans has published the results of its “TravelSmart” in Peterborough and Worcestershire.  Around 6,500 people in each town were contacted and offered personalised advice about how they could reduce car use.  The initiative achieved a 13% reduction in car trips for those contacted in Peterborough and a 12% reduction in Worcester, with significant shifts to cycling (25% and 36% respectively).  At a cost of around £20 per household Sustrans believe it could be extended to a city the size of Birmingham (with 400,000 households) for the cost of a third of a mile of motorway.  See press release.

 

 

Member benefit

 

Introduce a friend

Introduce a friend and we’ll give you either 3 months free membership or an official CTC polo shirt. If you know someone who'd love CTC, we'd like to welcome them to our family of cyclists. If they join before 30 September 2006, both of you will get the choice of one of these great offers:-

3 months FREE membership or an official CTC polo shirt.

 

CTC has been fighting for cyclists' rights for over 100 years; last year alone we successfully fought and won many high profile campaigns. And with the Abergele and Daniel Cadden cases currently in the media, CTC needs more members than ever. By signing up friends and family who are not yet members, you help us grow and campaign on your behalf. Not only will your friends thank you for introducing them to CTC, so will we - Each time you do.

What next?
Simply Call 0870 873 0061 quoting 'friends', either you phone giving their details or they phone, giving your name as a reference stating which size polo shirts you need

 

 

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