Newcastle Fit for Cycling

The Cycle City Ambition Fund programme

Newcastle fit for Cycling

A £9M programme- £5.7M from Cycle City Ambition Fund- £2.4M from Newcastle City Council- £20k from the private sector- £775k from public health- £180k from Sustrans- Plus an additional £700k from Capital funding

and £900K from LTP over three years

Six workstreams

1. Strategic cycle routes and transformation of the urban core

2. DIY Streets3. Retail shared space schemes4. Active Travel Centre5. Community outreach projects in

Change4Life East and West areas6. Monitoring and review

Strategic cycle routes network

Routes being tackled under CCAF

Urban core

• Cycle lanes at Central Gateway• A two-way cycle path on John Dobson Street• Pocket parks on Pilgrim Street in advance of the

East Pilgrim Street developments• A cycle path coming down Great North Road

straight into the city centre• Contra-flow cycling on some one-way streets• A replacement for the Camden Street bridge

DIY Streets areas

Supported by Sustrans funding from the Big Lottery for DIY Streets around schools

- North and South Jesmond

- North and South Heaton

- Ouseburn

- Fenham

Retail shared space

- Shields Road

- Heaton

- Adelaide Centre

- Stanhope Street

- Acorn Road

Active Travel Centre

A partnership between Sustrans, The Cycle Hub, Recyke y’Bike and Newcastle City Council

• A “One stop shop” for the promotion of cycling and active travel for the CCAF and beyond.

• Emphasis on complementing and not undermining existing services in Newcastle

• Analyzing the precise demands for particular services in the City• A sustainable, long term fixture of the city (10 years plus) that brings

together local organisations

Community outreach

Working through established Change4Life networks on the theme of ‘A Little Further’

- Getting sedentary people walking

- getting walkers cycling

- Working with already established local organisations and schemes

Monitoring and review

Sustrans is developing a Bike Account programme with 7 LAs including Newcastle support which will lead to sustainable change in how cities monitor, evaluate and report cycling.

Parameters and targets will be agreed with the 7 LAs with a view to rolling this out nationally.

It will cover all cycling activities, not just CCAF.

The Bike Account

The Copenhagen Bicycle Account includes information relating to the following topics:

• What Copenhagen’s cyclists thought was done well and what could be improved.

• How Copenhagen is doing compared to its key targets.• Key cycling figures (cycled km, cycled km between serious

casualties, cycling speed, cycle tracks, cycle lanes, maintenance, cycle parking spaces on roads and pavements).

• Integration of cycling and public transport.• The relationship between cyclists’ sense of safety, their actual

safety and their behaviour.• The impact of initiatives over the last two years.• The benefits of cycling

Beyond CCAF

CCAF is the start of a ten year programme.

More funding will be coming.

The future might be on two wheels….