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

Mapping / Route planning

www.cyclestreets.net

Cycle campaigning

Campaign group organisation

Spokes & Warrington cycle campaignMembers, Committee, web site

CTC RtR repsSupport & information via Yahoo Group

Facebook

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