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Exeter Cycling @ExeterCycling

Exeter Cycling Campaign - speaking up for Everyday cycling to be Safe, Convenient & Connected in and around Exeter. Also at @exetercycling.bsky.social

Joined March 2016
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Exeter Cycling@ExeterCycling
6 Jan 2024
What is the Exeter cycling Campaign? 🧵 1/ We are a registered charity working to ensure our lovely city thrives & that people are enabled to cycle, scoot & walk. We believe that cycling to school, work or the shops should not require bravery. RT welcome 😀
child cycles on safe cycle track beside main road

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If you think we've gone quiet on here - it's because we are migrating our content to Blue Sky. We hope to see you there. Follow us on Exeter Cycling Campaign (@exetercycling.bsky.social) — Bluesky

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Check out our latest newsletter with key information about the Boniface Trail. Why not encourage a cycling friend or colleague to sign up for our emails? It'd be great to have more people on board. us13.campaign-archive.com/?u…
A man cycles along with a 6 foot high stack of newspapers on his back rack. Another man sits on the newspapers reading one. Vintage image, source unknown.

ALT A man cycles along with a 6 foot high stack of newspapers on his back rack. Another man sits on the newspapers reading one. Vintage image, source unknown.
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Saving the world, one bike ride at a time.
Cycling Weekly
@cyclingweekly
7 Nov 2024
Bicycles save lives: How bikes have been critical after the Valencia floods trib.al/jHRsrox
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👇Call for evidence-based policy
Lorna Devenish@LKDevenish
6 Nov 2024
Replying to @ExeterStreets
@ExeterStreets volunteers used publicly available data to analyse the speed of 800 buses on Heavitree Fore St. 🧵
A scatterplot graph. The y axis is speed and the x axis is time of day. Each dot represents a bus. ~There are 800 dots. The caption is Bus speeds along bus lane on Heavitree Fore Street

ALT A scatterplot graph. The y axis is speed and the x axis is time of day. Each dot represents a bus. ~There are 800 dots. The caption is Bus speeds along bus lane on Heavitree Fore Street
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Inspiring day today at @activedevon's Moving Communities conference at Sandy Park. Brilliant speakers and sessions. Thank you @Chris_Boardman, active travel and disability advocates, health professionals and educators for sharing your insight and wisdom. activedevon.org/introducing-…

Introducing Moving Communities - Active Devon’s 2024 Conference  - Active Devon

Join us at our 2024 conference, to connect, share, learn and be inspired by the positive power and benefits of movement. Find out more.

activedevon.org
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You know what to do...
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We have just three weeks left to send in our response to the Devon County Council consultation on routes for the Boniface Trail (Crediton to Exeter) - devon.gov.uk/.../consultatio…, so do let us know thoughts about our draft response by email to info@exetercyclingcampaign.org.uk

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● Bring superceded structures, including a bridge over the River Yeo, back into beneficial use ● The opportunity to use existing verges to minimise the requirement to purchase land.
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...and a "Quiet Route" from Newton St Cyres to Cowley Bridge. Benefits: ● Better connectivity to Newton St Cyres train station ● Removes challenging and expensive route-building through narrow parts of A377 west of Newton St. Cyres.
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Many of the food delivery machines involved in close calls with pedestrians are not bicycles. They are illegal electric motorbikes. Not a cycling issue: a law enforcement issue. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Speeding delivery e-bikes are a menace – but the solution isn't to push all cyclists into the road...

Birmingham’s plan to ban bikes from pedestrianised streets ignores the real problem of food couriers’ illegally souped-up cycles, writes Peter Walker, the Guardian’s acting deputy political editor

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Stuart Hughes
@stuarthughes747
1 Nov 2024
Replying to @activetraveleng
We will take a look to see if a CYCLOPs junction would work in Exeter … Watch this space
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Birdy@BiddyBike
30 Oct 2024
What a lovely name. The all ability cycling club.
Journeys and Places Enfield@JourneysPlaces
29 Oct 2024
We recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of the All Ability Cycling Club. Among the highlights was a speech by 91-year-old Maria, who helped establish the club in 2014 as a member of the Friends of Bush Hill Park. Read Maria's story here: journeysandplaces.enfield.go…
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Brent Toderian
@BrentToderian
27 Oct 2024
Also, NEVER FORGET that Vancouver’s Downtown Business Association, who were originally AGAINST downtown bike-lanes, later became one of their most vigourous supporters, because of EVIDENCE that bike-lanes are better for downtown business than any street parking they replace.
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@adrianberendt #20mph champion@adrianberendt1
27 Oct 2024
Replying to @DavidZipper @2wheelsgoodBrum
For context, this is the biggest annual reduction in road casualties ever seen in the UK (excl COVID)
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David Zipper@DavidZipper
25 Oct 2024
In Wales, crashes fell 24% after adopting a default urban speed limit of 20 mph. nation.cymru/news/welsh-road…
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Exeter Cycling@ExeterCycling
23 Oct 2024
Please RT & sign. Would you❤️a clear 🚲 lane in preference to dodging the traffic, car doors and vehicles crossing your path by the shops in Fore Street, Heavitree? Sign this bus lane petition to make that more possible. 🚲🚲🚲🚲🚲 🚗🚙🚕🚗🚚 #Exeter democracy.devon.gov.uk/mgEPe…
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