MCC - Cycling for All!

Contraflow cycle lanes in Liverpool Cycling is an important means of transport on Merseyside - healthy, convenient, environmentally responsible - and sustainable. Use this site to find out more about cycling on Merseyside and what the Merseyside Cycling Campaign is about.

Cycling in cities is a great way do avoid and reduce traffic congestion. Special facilities such as this contraflow cycle lane (where cyclists can use the road in both directions but motorists can only go one way) are helping to make cycling around our urban areas even more convenient. This is an example from Liverpool. If you'd like to see more facilities for cyclists on Merseyside then please support the campaign by joining (for which there is no charge) and communicating with your local council (see info. on cycle forums below)

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Loop Line Threatened with Closure

Liverpool celebrates the “Year of Health & Wellbeing” – assisted by Network Rail:

Network Rail, who look after the Ormskirk line railway bridge over the Loop Line near the Black Bull (Walton), intend to close the Loop Line by building embankments under the bridge.

They have offered to pierce the earthworks with a culvert, but have demanded £200,000 for “maintenance”.

Sustrans say they don’t have the money and have instructed Network Rail to proceed with the closure in September.

There is no suitable on-road link between the two sides of the closure.

If you want to let Network Rail know what you think their contact details are:

Mike Whitby
Network Rail
Square One
4 Travis Street
Manchester
M1 2NY
mike.whitby@networkrail.co.uk

Take Part in the A540 Safety Improvements Survey

The Chester Cycling Campaign and other local cycling organisations are fighting for improvements to be made on the A540 to protect the safety of the many cyclists who use this route for commuting, training, and leisure cycling.

The road is also the only way to access the Eureka Cyclists’ Cafe, exposing customers to the risks associated with the heavy and fast moving traffic on this route.

Take part in the survey on www.chestercyclecity.org

The Spring 2010 Edition of Pedal Press the campaign newsletter is in pdf here (2.2MB).

Rod's presentation is available on www.20splentyforus.org.uk

and Designing for Cycle Traffic notes is here

New Bike Shops in Liverpool Over the last few years I have often be emailed with the news of the closure of yet another bike shop in Merseyside. Happily the opening of Bike Beat on Parliament Street in Liverpool appears to have halted this trend. See Bike Beat. We wish it well.

And there's another bike shop opening in Litherland. Hobson Cycles is at 128 Linacre Road.

And, astounding, another new bike shop has just opened in Crosby. College Cycles is on the corner of College Road and (would you believe it!) Brompton Avenue - it's run by John (ex of Crosby Cycles).

The closure trend appears to have been well and truly reversed.

We wish them all well.

Cycle Fora on Merseyside
Your chance to tell the local councils what you think about cycling on Merseyside. In the following districts the next cycle fora are:

Sefton Cycle Forum See www.sefton.gov.uk/page&3705 for details of previous meetings and dates of future meetings.

Liverpool Cycle Forum. See www.liverpool.gov.uk the next forum is on a date to be advised

Wirral Cycle Forum These meetings occur four times a year. The next forum is on a date to be advised

Knowsley Cycle Forum If you find out please let me know...

Merseyside Travelwise in association with the Merseyside Cycling Campaign have produced an all new version of the Rideabout leaflet - it's called (you guessed it!) Rideabout2. This gives details of some of our most popular rides from the Bike Time series. See Document downloads on www.letstravelwise.org/cycling/ for this and other Travelwise publications.

MCC Committee Meetings
All MCC members are welcome to come along and join in at the following

Next meeting of the Merseyside Cycling Campaign is on Monday 21st June 2010. Starting at 6pm in the Baltic Fleet, Wapping.

Site last updated on 16th June 2010 by merseysidecyclingcampaign@hotmail.co.uk

for more details please contact Andrew Grimbly
Andrew Grimbly