Our Cycle City Ambitions

Our Cycle City Ambitions

The chance to start a long-term transformation

Cycle City Ambition

Cycle City Ambition Grants - Up to £10 per head per year over 2 years

A possible £5,556,000(Cycle Demonstrations Towns were granted

£5 per head per year matched locally to give £10 per head per year.)

Cycle City Ambition

Cycle City Ambition Grants - A possible £5,556,000- Capital funding only – revenue from local

resources- Local contribution needed - the more the

better especially from the private sector/external sources

Cycle City Ambition

Cycle City Ambition Grants - A possible £5,556,000- Capital funding only - Local contribution needed- Only open to City Deal Cities

Cycle City Ambition

NewcastleBirmingham LeedsSheffield

Bristol Liverpool Manchester Nottingham

City Deal First Wave – 8 cities

Cycle City Ambition

Black Country Bournemouth/Poole Brighton and Hove Cambridge Coventry Hull Ipswich Leicester Oxford Milton Keynes

Norwich Plymouth Portsmouth/Southampton Preston Reading Southend Stoke on Trent Sunderland Swindon Tees Valley

City Deal Second Wave – 20 cities

Cycle City Ambition

The Government expects to support one First Wave

and two Second Wave cities.

Our rivals are Birmingham, Leeds, Sheffield,

Bristol, Liverpool, Manchester and Nottingham.

Cycle City Ambition

Cycle City Ambition Grants - A possible £5,556,000- Capital funding only - Local contribution needed- Only open to City Deal Cities- Support both walking and cycling – schemes

that actively add value to the pedestrian environment will be looked on favourably

Cycle City Ambition Cycle City Ambition Grants - A possible £5,556,000- Capital funding only - Local contribution needed- Only open to City Deal Cities- Support both walking and cycling- Timescale tight

Cycle City Ambition

‘A vision for an improved and fully integrated network that will be delivered over the next ten years’

- Submit bids by 30 April 2013- Detailed delivery plan and package by

June 2013- Two year funding ends 2014/15

Cycle City Ambition

Cycle City Ambition schemes should- Unlock road capacity - Link communities- Increase productivity through improved

fitness- Improve the public realm and attract high

value business

Cycle City Ambition

- Bring direct savings to the NHS - Give disadvantaged groups better access

to jobs- Revitalise streets- Create positive knock-on effects- Create new social enterprises

Cycle City Ambition

Our bid will build on - Our cycling strategy- Our cross-party support- Go Smarter- The commitment to cycling improvements

in major schemes - The Strategic Cycle Network

Cycle City Ambition

Cycle City Ambition

The scope of the grant:

‘…a vision for an improved and fully integrated network that will be delivered over the next 10 years.’

Cycle City Ambition

The vision could include- Junction improvements- Better street design - Segregated or partially segregated cycle

infrastructure alongside arterial roads for commuters

- Segregated infrastructure to access schools

Cycle City Ambition

- Better infrastructure to link up businesses, hospitals, shops, and key services

- Links between green space- More 20 mph zones and limits- Improved interchange hubs with better

facilities to enable and encourage better door to door journeys

Cycle City AmbitionKey ideas?

Adding value to the pedestrian environment

Engaging pedestrians and least active groups Working across

boundaries and sectorsRemoving barriers

Transformational change

Measures that increase the scope of cycling

Vision