GoGreen Week 2012
Please join us! Wed. 10th, Cyclists Breakfast and Bike sale
Digbeth/Rea Valley access
The signed cycle route from Meriden St. is blocked by development works and BCC cycling officer is trying to get some new signage via the top of Fazeley St. to the Jennens Road Toucan crossing.
Cycling and walking route
opens
The next section of
the North Birmingham Connect2 cycling and walking route alongside Plants Brook,
between Penns Lane and the Eachelhurst Road, is now open. It includes a
link into Pype Hayes Park and a signed route to the Birmingham and Fazeley
canal and Castle Vale. £4.1 million has also been awarded for a
four-year programme of cycling activity within Erdington and Sutton Coldfield,
through the government's Local Sustainable Transport Fund. For more
information on walking and cycling routes, visit
http://www.connect2birmingham.org/
http://blog.connect2birmingham.org/
Bike North Birmingham grant and plans.
A number of members are forming a
Mountain Bike sub-group for regular off road rides, please check the side menu link for updates.There is also an
Aston Running Group.
National Bike Week (16th-24th June 2012) events at Aston will help kept cycle to work issues in high profile.
LG changing and drying facility, see
October 2010 Update page for details, or contact Tim. We also have a few tools and a foot pump.
We are also investigating plans for a pool of
loan bikes for 2011/12 - see the side menu for latest update.
All the cycle shelters are fully operational, including two more by car park 6, however there is still overcrowding in SW and Guild shelters. Please park responsibly inside the shelters and without blocking access to the stairs or railings. A new map is being printed.
News
Contact: (Maps & cycle buddy info.) Tim Hooton, MB509 (x4228) t.m.a.hooton@aston.ac.uk
or Jill Wilson in The Hub,(x4007) Main Building ground floor or a.j.wilson@aston.ac.uk
Useful Links
Birmingham City Council – Cycling information, local bike shops, free 2009 Map & strategy
Wolverhampton, Sandwell, Dudley and Walsall cycling information and maps(some spare maps available)
CycleScheme have a very useful online magazine
Road.cc and BikeHub are also very useful reference sites
Yahoo Cycle-iseWM - local cycle related discussion group
Cycle Planner - http://www.transportdirect.info/Web2/JourneyPlanning/FindCycleInput.aspx?repeatingloop=Y
Sustrans Sustainable Transport: Rea Valley route, Connect2
CyclingEngland - National body which co-ordinated the development of cycling
Birmingham Cyclists' Touring Club (CTC), Commuting by Bicycle in the UK
Pushbikes - Birmingham campaign group and local information
British Waterways - Cycling Permit
Main University navigation links
