Bike hub being planned for Birmingham - but no Boris Bikes
A city centre ‘bike hub’ offering secure cycle parking, changing and shower facilities and bike hire is one of several initiatives being considered in Birmingham as the city council looks to increase...
View ArticleBirmingham Cycle Revolution plans published as city finalises DfT funding bid
England’s second largest city is aiming to achieve a 'Birmingham Cycle Revolution' as it finalises its bid for a slice of government cash aimed at helping cities in England outside the capital to boost...
View ArticleNo Sky Ride for Birmingham this year
Birmingham has become the second major British city to cancel its mass participation Sky Ride – although unlike Edinburgh, which is focusing instead on racing with the ultimate aim of attracting the...
View ArticleBirmingham City Council in 2,000 bike giveaway targeting people in deprived...
Birmingham City Council is to give away 2,000 bicycles and make an identical number available for free long-term hire for between six and 12 months in an attempt to get people living in deprived areas...
View ArticleCouncillor says Birmingham’s Cycle Revolution is “discriminatory” and only...
A councillor in Birmingham has said that the city’s £24.3 million ‘Cycle Revolution’ will only benefit “young, white men” and that cycling is a “discriminatory” form of transport.Last year, England’s...
View Article'Motor City' Birmingham shifts focus away from the car in its 20-year vision...
Birmingham City Council says it wants to restrict growth in car use over the coming two decades as it aims to become Britain’s “leading green city,” focusing on helping people get around by bike, on...
View ArticleBirmingham Sky Ride cancelled for second year running
There will be no Sky Ride in Birmingham this year, the second year in a row the closed-road event will not be held. That’s despite the city’s council saying in May last year when it cancelled the 2014...
View ArticleBirmingham announces a series of schemes intended to improve cycling along...
Birmingham City Council is to spend almost £2.8m on a number of projects as part of the Birmingham Cycle Revolution (BCR). The three major routes set for improvements in this phase are the Bristol Road...
View ArticleDetails released of 100-mile Vélo Birmingham sportive, coming in September 2017
England rugby star Martin Johnson and London 2012 chief and double Olympic gold medallist Lord Sebastian Coe have officially launched Vélo Birmingham, which will see up to 15,000 cyclists tackle a...
View ArticleBike hub being planned for Birmingham - but no Boris Bikes
A city centre ‘bike hub’ offering secure cycle parking, changing and shower facilities and bike hire is one of several initiatives being considered in Birmingham as the city council looks to increase...
View ArticleBirmingham Cycle Revolution plans published as city finalises DfT funding bid
England’s second largest city is aiming to achieve a 'Birmingham Cycle Revolution' as it finalises its bid for a slice of government cash aimed at helping cities in England outside the capital to boost...
View ArticleNo Sky Ride for Birmingham this year
Birmingham has become the second major British city to cancel its mass participation Sky Ride – although unlike Edinburgh, which is focusing instead on racing with the ultimate aim of attracting the...
View ArticleBirmingham City Council in 2,000 bike giveaway targeting people in deprived...
Birmingham City Council is to give away 2,000 bicycles and make an identical number available for free long-term hire for between six and 12 months in an attempt to get people living in deprived areas...
View ArticleCouncillor says Birmingham’s Cycle Revolution is “discriminatory” and only...
A councillor in Birmingham has said that the city’s £24.3 million ‘Cycle Revolution’ will only benefit “young, white men” and that cycling is a “discriminatory” form of transport.Last year, England’s...
View Article'Motor City' Birmingham shifts focus away from the car in its 20-year vision...
Birmingham City Council says it wants to restrict growth in car use over the coming two decades as it aims to become Britain’s “leading green city,” focusing on helping people get around by bike, on...
View ArticleBirmingham Sky Ride cancelled for second year running
There will be no Sky Ride in Birmingham this year, the second year in a row the closed-road event will not be held. That’s despite the city’s council saying in May last year when it cancelled the 2014...
View ArticleBirmingham announces a series of schemes intended to improve cycling along...
Birmingham City Council is to spend almost £2.8m on a number of projects as part of the Birmingham Cycle Revolution (BCR). The three major routes set for improvements in this phase are the Bristol Road...
View ArticleDetails released of 100-mile Vélo Birmingham sportive, coming in September 2017
England rugby star Martin Johnson and London 2012 chief and double Olympic gold medallist Lord Sebastian Coe have officially launched Vélo Birmingham, which will see up to 15,000 cyclists tackle a...
View ArticleNo repeat of Vélo Birmingham this year - but event will return in spring 2019...
Vélo Birmingham, which saw 15,000 cyclists take to the roads of the West Midlands and neighbouring counties last September, will not return this year with organisers saying that the next edition will...
View ArticleMail and Telegraph suggest Birmingham cycle lane has somehow caused...
The Telegraph and The Daily Mail aren’t going to let a small fact like a road being exactly the same as it’s always been keep them from blaming a cycle lane for ‘causing’ congestion. The newspapers...
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