Northern Rail Cycle Forum - 3rd Dec

The next Northern Rail Cycle Forum will be held on 3 December 2014 at the National Cycling Centre, Stuart Street, Manchester M11 4DQ. Report to British Cycling Reception on the first floor of the Centre on arrival.

AGENDA (timings are indicative)

12.30 Preliminaries, apologies and Note of Meeting held on 7 August in Harrogate (copy attached) and any matters arising.

12.45 British Cycling Campaigns (Martin Key, Campaigns Manager, British Cycling)

13.00 Northern and Merseyrail Bids to £15m Cycle-Rail Fund:

Northern bids for Manchester (Nick Vaughan,TfGM)
Northern bids for West Yorkshire
Northern Bids for Northumberland (Ian Hall)
Merseyrail bids (Andy Bristow, Merseyrail)

13.40 Progress on Approved Cycle-Rail Projects- outcome of station visits:

Network Rail Cycle Fund
Linking Places Fund- £198,000 on stations in Manchester & Cheshire
(Anthony Singleton, Vextrix Management)

14.00 Sustrans Projects in Manchester and NW (Rosslyn Colderley, Sustrans Regional Director)

14.20. Northern Rail Franchise: Stakeholder Consultation (Les Webb/Simon Geller)

14.25 2014 National Cycle-Rail Awards: 26 November (Conrad Haigh)

14.40 Other Recent Developments and AOB
- Sheffield Hub (Simon Geller)
- Long Causeway & Monsal Trail (Simon Geller)
- South Yorkshire Cycle action Plan
- A Google Group for Northern Rail Cycle Forum? (Simon Geller)

15.00 Provisional Date for Next Meeting: 12 March 2015.

For further details email Les Webb
Office Volunteer/Northern Rail Cycle Forum Secretary/Leeds Ranger Group Co-ordinator
Sustrans Yorkshire and Humber Regional Office
First Floor,Leeds Bridge House Hunslet Road
LEEDS LS10 1JN