It's better than nothing, but nothing like Amsterdam!
Notice the lack of junction treatment, no protection from vehicles turning left across the cycle route. In Amsterdam cycles get a separate phase at traffic lights.
Meantime the bus stops are over complicated, with pointless solar powered led lights, rumble strips and give way signs that were added later. Money spent on blaming people cycling whilst ignoring the real dangers at the junctions.
But the real problems on this route are the drivers using the cycle route as a parking place, normally it's private hire cars, but this time it was rather different...
Oxford Road going south
Oxford Road going north
When they put in half decent cycle routes in Manchester it's not long before they are closed by building works...
Showing posts with label UMBUG. Show all posts
Showing posts with label UMBUG. Show all posts
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Saturday, 21 June 2014
An ACE Cycling Event
Last Wednesday was the Corridor Manchester Annual Cycle Event on Oxford Road.
I arrived as the stalls were setting up.
Get Cycling were just getting their machines out and the people running the stalls had a quick play.
There were various stalls with information and products
including TfGM with maps and the plans for Oxford Road,
a pre-owned bikes stall,
the Trans-Pennine Trail and Sustrans
and Love Your Bike sharing a stall with Manchester Cycling lab.
Gabi had lots of information about the lab's work on hand.
The fun part of the day was the cycle tryout track...
All in all a good day and I spent the morning catching up on the gossip about cycle campaigners and learning from the highly successful UMBUG team about how to run a BUG.
I arrived as the stalls were setting up.
Get Cycling were just getting their machines out and the people running the stalls had a quick play.
There were various stalls with information and products
including TfGM with maps and the plans for Oxford Road,
a pre-owned bikes stall,
the Trans-Pennine Trail and Sustrans
and Love Your Bike sharing a stall with Manchester Cycling lab.
Gabi had lots of information about the lab's work on hand.
The fun part of the day was the cycle tryout track...
All in all a good day and I spent the morning catching up on the gossip about cycle campaigners and learning from the highly successful UMBUG team about how to run a BUG.
Sunday, 3 March 2013
UMBUG - MCR's biggest cycle group?
Just found this little video about UMBUG, the University of Manchester Bicycle Users Group.
The message is really positive, if you work hard at supporting cycling in a workplace then you can increase cycling levels. It is something that all emplyers should emulate.
The hard work has also probably built the biggest cycle group in manchester at over 800 people.
Is UMBUG the biggest group of cycling people in Manchester?
The message is really positive, if you work hard at supporting cycling in a workplace then you can increase cycling levels. It is something that all emplyers should emulate.
The hard work has also probably built the biggest cycle group in manchester at over 800 people.
Is UMBUG the biggest group of cycling people in Manchester?
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