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Case studies for strategic planning day, 22nd January 2011
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What Works Well
Case Studies
Andrew Abbess
Stirling Conference 22 Jan 2011
Ed Cycle Co-op
Out of school bike clubs• For children & parents once a month on
Sundays, using paid instructors funded by grants: Climate Challenge Fund, Cycling Scotland, Sustrans and Scotland UnLtd
• Started at 1 school now at 4 schools• On road cycle training (over 1000 hours
delivered by qualified instructors) • Bike maintenance & first aid training• Led rides: Bike trains to school P1-P7
(volunteer led)
Cycle train to school
Local off road river, canal & old railway routes
St Ninians Primary StirlingSchool Travel Plan
1%before
Traffic Management schemes around Stirling High & St Ninians PS
St Ninians Primary StirlingSchool Travel Plan
StirlingHigh
St NiniansPrimary
Torbrex Scheme 20 mph roads
BorestoneScheme 20 mph roads
Torbrex Road adjacent to High School.Not part of either traffic calming scheme: Hence the objection.
1%before
18%after
National Standards Cycle Training
Level 1. Complete beginners. Off road.
Ready Steady Bike
scheme
National Standards Cycle Training
Level 2. On road (beginners)
Scottish Cycle Training scheme
National Standards Cycle Training
Level 3. On road (advanced)
Go by Cycle scheme
No cycle training
Playground only
On road
England & Wales
Merseyside
• LA & NHS cooperation
• local, DfT & EU funding to provide: – training– routes – facilities – publicity
• Outcome: cycling rates up 14%
Research based best practice
Hilden Germany
E120,000 over 10 years
Centre line removal
24% of trips within Hilden are done by cycle.
Stricter liability
www.stricterliabilityforus.org.uk
Off road cycle tracks have right of way at T junctions
Mayor Hilden Summary
• The key to affordable cycle facilities is the maximum speed of 30 kph (18.5 mph)
Campaigns
Sustrans: “quality streets for all” www.quality-streets.org.uk
20 plenty for us www.20splentyforus.org.uk
Facilities
Dunbar Primary
• Large school over 800 pupils.
• £200,000 spent
• Off road paths to link housing estates to school
• 200 children going to school by bike or scooter (25% of journeys)
Beauty and the Bike video
• Facilities & attitudes in Darlington & Bremen
• www.bikebeauty.org
Holland The land with separated cycle facilities
Assen c 1970
UK v. Holland
www.hembrow.eu/blog
www.hembrow.eu/blog
www.hembrow.eu/blog
Freiburg
(200,000 people in Southern Germany near French border).
New suburb Vauban
Stirling Council Green Transport Supplemantry Planning Guidance
Events / promotion / social marketing
Personalised travel plans
Good, effective
but expensive
Do them after you have put in place all the facilities
Philip Darnton. English Cycling. Chief Exec
Malmo Sweden
700,000 people
In 10 years they got Cycling rates from 20 - 30 %
What next ?
Bogota Colombia
• 7 million population
• Every Sunday they close 70 miles city streets to traffic.
• 2 million people come out to walk, cycle, run, on the closed roads
• Ciclovia
• www.streetfilms.org/ciclovia/
Sky RideGlasgow
Cycle campaigning
Campaign group organisation
Spokes & Warrington cycle campaignMembers, Committee, web site
CTC RtR repsSupport & information via Yahoo Group
Highway Code
Highway Code rule 208 states
Near Schools. Drive slowly and be particularly aware of young cyclists and pedestrians.
Drive very slowly until you are clear of the area.
Highway code
Social Marketing
Cycling Scotland 2010
www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk
Transport for London
• Driver awareness videoTV
U Tube
• www.dothetest.co.uk
20 pages of European best practice
Bringing Cycling to Life: The LifeCycle Best Practice Handbook
• June 2010• Editors: Randy Rzewnicki & Claus
Koellinger• LIFE CYCLE, a project funded by the EU
Public Health Programme
• So what did you like
• What was inspiring
• Why was it inspriing
• What might work in Stirling
• Place your post it notes
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