Cycling Shorts
Car-Busters
If you're a member of BCC you'll also want to know about Car-Busters.
This quarterly magazine covers radical pro-sustainable transport campaigning and actions across Europe. We use their cartoons liberally in our newsletters and you can see their ideas are spot-on. There's even someone from Bristol who works at their collective in Prague.
Check out their website for their subscription rates at: www.carbusters.ecn.cz or write to Car-Busters, Kratka 26, 100 00, Praha 10, Czech Republic.
Cycle Centre for Bristol?
Bristol council and the Mud Dock cycle shop and café have taken advantage of a government scheme that gives grants to promote cycling. They've worked together to put in a bid for a Cycle Centre to be built onto the existing Mud Dock.
The Centre will have secure bike parking, showers and lockers along with the existing bike repair facilities and the café. If everything goes to plan it may be up and running by next spring.
Bollards
Bollards in the railway mosaic tunnel are the latest ironmongery to afflict the Bristol and Bath Railway Path. The reason is to stop cars being driven in and set alight (as happened in the parallel tunnel leading to Days Road), but many cyclists are unhappy with them and think they just add an unnecessary hazard. The council are looking for better ways of keeping the joy-riders out.
Greenbank development
In fact, it hasn't been a good time at all for the B&B path: some beautiful trees have been lost in the gales and next to the Chocolate factory a large area of wild land is now being dug up by bulldozers.
This development
has gone ahead despite objections from the council's own planning officers and a robust local campaign. They have even taken the hedgerows away.
New Sustrans leaflets
Sustrans and the Council have brought out a new range of cycling leaflets. They're full of useful advice and great photographs and cover various topics such as choosing a bike, basic maintenance, security and cycling with children.
They should be available at your local library or from the council cycling department in Wilder Street.
