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My year with Belfast Bikes
Bikefast grabbed a chat with Anne Doherty from the Belfast Bikes team to find out how they delivered a scheme which has recorded 191,000 journeys in its first year and has transformed central Belfast.
191,000 journeys in Belfast Bikes year one
Coca Cola Zero Belfast Bikes celebrates its first birthday, following a successful year ans 191,000 journeys as the people of Belfast take Northern Ireland’s flagship public bike scheme to their hearts.
Get involved in tomorrow’s Belfast Bikes festivities
Tomorrow sees the first anniversary of the Coca-Cola Zero Belfast Bikes scheme. You have the opportunity to get involved in some fun events and free prize give-aways to mark the occasion.
Is it really too wet to cycle in Belfast?
The head of NI’s Cycling Unit decided to record his cycling weather for a year – and found conditions were more taps aff than lashing down.
Sun, Cycle, Study…
Kelly Hargie on little adventures by bicycle: “While cycling by the river, looking in one direction I could see the Belfast hills in the distance, the famous Harland and Wolff cranes and the taller buildings in the town centre and yet I was still connecting with nature.”
The culture shift of Election Cycle 2016
A third of candidates running for the Stormont Assembly election have endorsed a call for long-term funding for cycling and active travel in Northern Ireland.
Cycling in the city with kids
“It is a dream of mine to see more and more families out cycling together in Belfast and for more and more cycle paths to be introduced across the city. In the meantime I plan to make the most of the cycle routes that are already in place.”
Belfast cycle network goes west
Major construction has commenced on the next phase of the Belfast Bicycle Improvement Plan (BBIP). Contractors are on site at Durham Street and College Square North as the next section of dedicated, protected cycling space begins to take shape.
Cyclist thrown into the River Lagan
A young man from the Shankill Road was “thrown head first” into the River Lagan from the towpath at Stranmillis on Sunday after he collided with another person while riding his bicycle.
Election 2016: UUP Party Political Bikecast
Bikefast’s increasingly hopeless attempts to find hidden clues of cycling investment plans within party election broadcasts reaches round 3 and the architects of the current Cycling Revolution™, the Ulster Unionist Party.