Category: Scheme consultations and analysis
Bikefast responses to consultations and new cycling schemes in Belfast
Fight for a cycleway to Belfast City Hall
Department for Communities’ Five Cs project ignores cycling and may place another decades-long barrier in the way of city cycling network development, unless we act Yet …
How to deliver the Belfast Bicycle Network
It’s more than three years since the Department for Infrastructure (DfI) published its draft Belfast Bicycle Network Plan (BBNP). The imperative to decarbonise our society is …
Alfredstraat – from cycleway to bicycle street
In the last of four articles exploring the Department for Infrastructure’s (DfI) review of the Alfred Street cycleway, Bikefast finds itself at the end of the …
Extending a cycleway along Hamilton Street?
In the third of four articles on the Department for Infrastructure’s (DfI) review of the Alfred Street cycleway, we tackle an unexpected development. In the middle …
How to fix the Alfred Street cycleway
In the second of four articles exploring the Department for Infrastructure’s (DfI) review of the Alfred Street cycleway, Bikefast looks at implementing the glaringly obvious, slap-you-in-the-face, …
Alfred Street cycleway review – the issues
Transport Minister Michelle McIlveen has announced the start of construction of three new cycle routes in Belfast. “These routes will provide greater protection for people who …
Belfast Waterside to give car-addicted Belfast one more fix
A £400m development in Belfast includes plans to significantly widen a street to as many as SEVEN lanes, in a move which will serve to accommodate …
Cycling snub at the Transport Hub
You’d hope that a £175M public investment in a Transport Hub to revolutionise city transport would mean a step forward for active travel in Belfast. Instead …
When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail
Many thanks for your email of 5 July 2017. I’ve included the relevant pieces of our correspondence at the bottom of the article. To summarise, as …
Exclusive: Revolution on the High Street
The Department for Infrastructure has moved its Cycling Revolution up a gear by proposing to radically alter Belfast’s High Street to attract more people to cycle in the city.