Cycling resources for Ryedale, North Yorkshire
A bid to fund measures to encourage more walking and cycling in North Yorkshire to help people to maintain social distancing and to ease pressure on public transport is being submitted to the Government this week.
https://www.northyorks.gov.uk/news/article/county-bids-funds-support-walking-and-cycling
Please feed your comments into the Ryedale Cycle Forum if you have specific ideas where this or future funds could be used.
See the minutes page for the agenda and previous minutes https://getryedalecycling.com/cycle-forum/minutes/
If you want to take part in the meeting, we need to send you a specific invitation, so please email Helen Gundry helenspost@msn.com, to request the invite, the sooner the better, and no later than 1 June.
Dear Forum Member
London North Eastern Railway are looking to the future of train travel in the UK and are keen to know what people most want from the design of long-distance trains – which features are most important to customers and which are the least important.
This would seem to be an excellent opportunity for Forum members to make known what cycle carriage provision they would find most helpful (and conversely, what train-designers ought to avoid).
https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/LNERFleet
The survey closes at 11:59pm on Sunday 24th May
Sustrans wants to help key workers to cycle to work safely during the Covid-19 pandemic.
They have created a digital map to promote cycle-related offers from UK businesses for key workers, including NHS staff. There is a list of key workers on the education provision page of the gov.uk website.
They already have lots of information on offers available in London, Greater Manchester and Edinburgh, but need more to create a useful point of information for key workers across the UK.
If you know of a business or a scheme that has an offer (either open specifically to key workers or to everyone) for bike loan or hire, repairs and maintenance, cycle support, or equipment and gear, please fill in this quick form with the following information:
The map will be updated every night, so please continue to fill in the form with offers and services in your area.
This initiative is supported by the Walking and Cycling Alliance. Together, we can support the UK’s amazing key workers to stay safe whilst cycling to and from work in these difficult times.
The Bike Project are offering personal tutorials on-line on how to fix a bike. Its £15 for 30 minutes, but free to NHS staff. For those who have to work in essential services, bikes are a safer way to get to work than public transport during the Covid-19 crisis, but many bike shops are closed. The Bike Project are a charity who up-cycle donated bikes, and the funds raised go to provide bikes for refugees, to ease access education, healthcare, food distribution points and advice.
