Cycle Chic in association with BikeDock Belles
Thursday 24th June 24 6:00pm - 8:00pm, Taps 2, Cotton Court Street, Waring Street, Belfast
Belfast's first
ever Cycle Chic event will transform
you from Cycle Geek to Cycle Chic and ensure you look suitably stylish and
exotic on 2 wheels this summer.
Belfast Cycle City: Visions
for the Future
Tues 1st June 5:45pm - 8:45pm, The Black
Box, Cathedral Quarter
The evening will feature exciting guest speakers discussing the future for cycling in Belfast:
Phillip Darton - CEO of Cycling England
Ciaran Fallon - Dublin City Cycling Officer
Steven Patterson - Director of Sustrans Ireland
Andrew McMurray - Belfast Friends of the Earth Co-ordinator
NICI AGM + Cycle Ride to Belfast Spring Fair
Sat 24th April 10:30 Place, Fountain Street, Belfast
After the AGM we will cycle to the Spring Fair at Barnett Demesne.
NICI is pleased to support the Belfast Cycle City campaign
?Belfast Cycle City? is a new campaign by Belfast Friends of the Earth. Its vision is that, by 2020, Belfast will be one of the top ten cycling cities in the UK.
To achieve this vision they are at present asking Belfast City Council to take three actions ;
- Create a new 10 year cycle strategy to be delivered in 2010
- Set a 10% target for all journeys by bicycle by 2020
- Support a request to increase annual DRD cycle spending to ?15 per person
To support this campaign you can visit the belfastcyclecity.org.uk website and sign the online petition. Alternatively, please contact belfastfoe@googlemail.com
We would like all members of NICI to show their support, and if possible, work with Belfast Friends of the Earth to make this campaign a success and promote a new culture of cycling in the city.
NICI welcomes the publication of new reports recommending more Government support for cycling. Check the News page for more details.
NICI is is planning a number number of cycling events for 2009. Check the Events page for more details.
The NICI AGM will once again be held at Place (near the rear entrance to Boots, in Fountain Street, Belfast, on Saturday 25th April at 10:30 am.
Tea and biscuits will be provided. Please come along to have your say as to how NICI is to progress.
There will be a cycle ride to the Spring Fair at Barnetts Desmense after the AGM.
NICI is encouraging members (and friends and family) to come out and ride together on a number of Bike Week Events on Sunday 15th and Sunday 22nd June. See the Events page for more details.
The NICI AGM will once again be held at Place (near the rear entrance to Boots, in Fountain Street, Belfast, on Saturday 12th April at 10:30 am.
Tea and biscuits will be provided. Please come along to have your say as to how NICI is to progress.
NICI calls for greater access to for cyclists in the Pedestrianised streets in Belfast City Centre.
NICI has formally objected to a recent Planning Order banning cyclists from the Pedestrianised streets in Belfast City Centre. Following a meeting with Roads Service, NICI now understands that this is a consolidation exercise. Cycling is already banned in these streets, but the ban is not really enforced.
NICI is now working with Sustrans and Roads Service in order to have this ban lifted in at least some streets. For a list of the affected streets, click here.
NICI welcomes a big rise in funding for Cycling England. Download the Cycling Futures PDF here.
Cycling England has a budget of ?10m this year. It will receive ?20m next year and ?60m in each of 2009?10 and 2010?11. The total three-year budget will be ?140m, of which ?110m is an increase in resources.
The main elements of the programme in which this money is to be invested are
set
out below:
NICI congratulates Sustrans on winning the People's ?50 Million Giveaway.
NICI is urging its members to help Sustrans win money for a UK wide project, Connect2, which will transform local travel within 79 communities. Sustrans is competing with 3 other organisations to win a one-off grant of ?50 million from the Big Lottery Fund, with the winner to be decided by public vote over the next few weeks.
By building bridges and crossings over main roads, rivers and railways, Sustrans' Connect2 will overcome many of the barriers that currently prevent people getting about more on foot and bike. The crossings will link into networks of paths, enabling pedestrians and cyclists to have direct and continuous access to local schools, shops, workplaces, green spaces, friends and family, and all those other places people want to get to in their every day lives. As many as 6 million people live within a mile of a proposed scheme, and over 1 million children attend schools within a similar distance. When complete, Connect2 schemes will carry over 60 million active, healthy, low carbon journeys a year, with a potential carbon saving of 79,000 tonnes, the equivalent of 79,000 people's car use in a year.
There are three opportunities to vote: online, by landline and by mobile. Online voting begins on 26h November at 9am on the People's Millions website with telephone voting beginning on 7th December at 9am. To be reminded when to vote, and to find out more about Connect2, visit the Sustrans website and register your details, or text Connect2 to 80010
Sustrans' Connect2 is competing with the Eden Project: The Edge; the Black
Country as Urban Park; and Sherwood: The Living Legend, details of which can
be found at the People's Millions website. Voting concludes at noon on 10th
December, with the winner to be announced on 12th December.