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Ards & North Down Cycle Campaign

@andccg.bsky.social
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Our cycle campaign group is based in North Down, Northern Ireland, see andccg.org for more information.

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Dublin Cycling Campaign @dublincycling.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
What a day meeting @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social advocates from all round the country AND @cyclinguk NI colleagues. They’re working together on a Shared Island Civic Society project. Yay for north-south cooperation 💚🤍🧡❤️🤍💙 All ably hosted by @droghedacycling including a fun bike tour round town ☺️
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Ian Waites @ianwaites.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Coming soon!
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Cycul @cycul.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
Good to meet up with other cycle campaigners from across Ireland at the @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social “Crossing Borders Conference”in Drogheda - and thanks to Quay Cycles in Drogheda for the bike hire.
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Ards & North Down Cycle Campaign @andccg.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
This should be rolled out across the island, quiet ways designated for walking and wheeling, lower traffic speed limits and clear signage 👇
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Jon Owen @anotherjon.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Socially Unacceptable Vehicle: Accounting for factors incl. driver characteristics and road conditions, adult pedestrians and cyclists had a 14% higher fatality rate when hit by an SUV compared to a regular car. Children had a 77% higher fatality rate when hit by an SUV. 77% higher fatality rate.
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Fietser @americanfietser.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
"Car-free streets will hurt businesses"
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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
In the final part of our off-road access series, we head to Northern Ireland where cycling access is severely limited. With no general right to ride off-road and just 6% public land, options are scarce – but not non-existent 👇 🔗 cyclinguk.org/ni-off-road-cycling
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Where in Northern Ireland can I cycle off road?
In the final part of our series looking at off-road access in the UK, we find that Northern Ireland has few rights to open land; however, there are still places you can ride off road. Content Officer ...
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Cycul @cycul.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Thanks for coming along this morning for a simple, safe and stress free cycle down to city hall for breakfast. Thanks to Dep. Lord Mayor @PaulDoherty___ for the warm welcome and @belfastcc for the continued support.
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Ards & North Down Cycle Campaign @andccg.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
And this week's Ride On Belfast cycling event shows it is possible for @translinkni.bsky.social to accommodate bikes on trains, sensibly 06.00-07.30, but we need this not just one day a year but EVERY day to boost active travel in NI 👇
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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Looking for an easy way to get the kids out on their bikes? We’ve rounded up 50 family-friendly cycle routes across the UK — with something for all ages & abilities. 💬 Tried any of them? cyclinguk.org/50-family-friendly-cycle-routes
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50 family-friendly cycle routes in the UK
Cycling with young children is often easier and safer on traffic-free or very quiet routes. We’ve picked our 50 cycling routes across the UK that are suitable for all the family. Most have a place to ...
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Camcycle @camcycle.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
No.4 on our list of highlights from 30 years of Camcycle is 'Making Space for Cycling'. Volunteers wrote this guide to high-quality cycle infrastructure which aimed to up UK ambition. It was endorsed by groups including @cyclinguk.bsky.social, @britishcycling.org.uk & @cprecountryside.bsky.social.
Cover of 'Making Space for Cycling: A guide for new developments and street renewals'. Overlaid is a tab that says '30 years of better cycling'
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The Man in Seat 61 @seatsixtyone.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
From 6 July, a free reservation is needed to take bikes on the Calais-Paris TER trains. A good thing, as (a) no danger of 10 people turning up for 4 bike spaces and (b) these trains now actually show up when you add a bike to a Calais-Paris booking at SNCF-connect.com. www.seat61.com/bike-by-trai...
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Take your bike by train from the UK to France, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Germany, Austria or anywhere else in Europe...
A guide to taking your bicycle by train from London to mainland Europe, including taking a bike by Eurostar train or ferry to France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Amsterdam, Prague, ev...
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Cardiff Cycle City | Dinas Feicio Caerdydd @cardiffcyclecity.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
✅ #WorldBicycleDay
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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
We’re gearing up for #BikeWeek (9–15 June) and nothing says celebration like a #BigBikeBrunch fundraiser ☕ Ride, refuel and reconnect over bikes, brews & bites. 👉 Sign up: www.cyclinguk.org/bikeweek?utm... 🤝 Thanks to supporting partner Bikmo, Cycling UK members get 10% off cycle insurance.
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Bike Week 2025
Bike Week 2025 is taking place from June 9–15, and it's your chance to be part of the UK’s biggest celebration of cycling
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Ards & North Down Cycle Campaign @andccg.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Upcoming next week 😍👇
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Cycling UK Official @cyclinguk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Last week our CEO & Head of Campaigns joined our NI Engagement Officer for a day of meetings in Belfast. From @sustrans.bsky.social NI to Stormont with Peter McReynolds MLA, and a milestone first meeting with Infrastructure Minister Liz Kimmins MLA — all steps forward for cycling in NI 💬
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Ards & North Down Cycle Campaign @andccg.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Please join us next Thursday at The Courthouse in Bangor for this Bike Week event courthousebangor.com/event/uk-bik...
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UK Bike Week special event: trail launch, film screening and panel discussion
This special event has been developed in partnership with Ards and North Down Cycle Campaign as part of UK Cycling Bike Week and to mark the launch of the Bangor Cycling and Walking Heritage Trail.
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Slow Ways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Calling everybody who walks, runs, wheels, cycles and rides! Who's up for helping to create the ultimate walking, running, wheeling, cycling & horse riding network for Britain and Ireland? Please check out, back and share our new #SlowWays crowdfunding campaign 👉 www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/slowways ⭐
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League of American Bicyclists @bikeleague.org · 03/06/2025
It’s World Bicycle Day! 🚴‍♀️🌎 There’s nothing like a bike ride to boost your mood, get your heart pumping, and connect with your community. Share your #BikeJoy with us and show us how you ride for a healthier, happier world today!
World Bicycle Day graphic — a globe with a bike en route around it, with the League of American Bicyclists logo and text that says "World Bicycle Day" and "June 3rd"
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Ards & North Down Cycle Campaign @andccg.bsky.social · 30/05/2025
Upcoming 😍
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Ards & North Down Cycle Campaign @andccg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Blanket 20mph in all urban areas would make a huge difference
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Ards & North Down Cycle Campaign @andccg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Well done @cycul.bsky.social for getting @translinkni.bsky.social to allow bikes on board on early trains, wish it was always thus! cycul.cc/products/rid...
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TIBG @tibg.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#OpenAccess in Transactions: 'Thinking through an ethnography of infrastructure: Commonsensical reasoning, road sharing, and everyday infrastructural settlements' by @citiesandstuff.bsky.social, Russell Hitchings & Michael Nattrass doi.org/10.1111/tran... #geosky
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Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers | RGS Journal | Wiley Online Library
As human geography debates about infrastructures grow in sophistication, there is a need to deepen the discussion of how we study them. This paper responds by presenting a project focused on how road...
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Slow Ways @slowwaysuk.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
Out of curiosity, who'd like a #SlowWays walking network connecting every village, town and city in #Ireland?
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Danny Williams @mrdannyw.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
More shots of the Chertsey - Woking cycle path (shared cycle path and foot way. As you can see, Surrey County Council has not been particularly interested in maintaining the asset
Shows a footway with a white lane down the middle. A man is walking towards the camera. There is a cycle lane on the right side of the white line. Almost all of the cycle way is covered in vegetation. There are trees on either side
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Belfast Cycle Campaign @belfastcyclecam.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
This is what I find time and time again on the bike. You make connections. You feel part of the city. It changes your relationship with where you live.
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Irish Cycling Campaign @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Bike Week 2025 runs from Sat 10 to Sun 18 May 2025, and many of Irish Cycling Campaign’s Local Groups are running events. In this article, we give a flavour of the events that some of our own Local Groups will be running. www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie/2025/05/bike...
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Bike Week 2025 – Irish Cycling Campaign Events
Bike Week 2025 runs from Sat 10 to Sun 18 May 2025, and many of Irish Cycling Campaign’s Local Groups are running events.  In this article, we give a flavour of the events that some of our own Local G...
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Cork Cycling Campaign @corkcyclingcrew.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
Minister for Transport officially relaunches Cyclist.ie as Irish Cycling Campaign 🥂 irishcycle.com/2025/05/17/m... Please visit: www.irishcyclingcampaign.ie @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social @cyclingincork.bsky.social @dublincycling.bsky.social @galwaycycling.bsky.social @lmkurbancycling.bsky.social
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Minister for Transport officially relaunches Cyclist.ie as Irish Cycling Campaign
Cyclist.ie, a national umbrella group for most cycling campaigns, has been officially relaunched as the Irish Cycling Campaign. The relaunch happened this afternoon with Minister for Transport Darr…
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Cllr Barry McKee @barryndgreen.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
A cracking day for the first Park Pedal in Castle Park organised by @andccg.bsky.social @cyclingireland.bsky.social Family friendly cycling in the park was good craic and great to see so many people getting involved. Thanks to the organisers.
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Irish Cycling Campaign @irishcyclingcmpn.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
As the Climate Action Plan 2025 (CAP25) is set to go to Cabinet today, the Irish Cycling Campaign is calling on government to clearly back cycling as a core climate solution – & to protect the funding & delivery needed to make it work. @news.rte.ie @nuachttg4.bsky.social cyclist.ie/2025/04/pres...
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PRESS RELEASE — Cycling Must Be at the Heart of Climate Action Plan 2025
For Immediate Release Cycling Must Be at the Heart of Climate Action Plan 2025 As the Climate Action Plan 2025 (CAP25) is set to go to Cabinet today, the Irish Cycling Campaign is calling on govern…
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Highland Cycle Campaign @highlandcyclists.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
🗞️ Our Newsletter will be going out to members soon- if you live in the highlands and ride bikes Join up to recieve it highlandcyclecampaign.org/join/
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Join - Highland Cycle Campaign
Become a member of Highland Cycle Campaign and add to our voice to help improve conditions for cycling for everyone in the Highlands.
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IrishCycle.com @irishcycle.com · 27/03/2025
Royal Canal Greenway opens fully from Glasnevin to Dorset St; final sections progressing The Royal Canal Greenway between Glasnevin/Phibsborough to Drumcondra/Dorset Street is now fully opened, and shared toucan crossings are now operational at both ends. IrishCycle.com previously reported that…
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Royal Canal Greenway opens fully from Glasnevin to Dorset St; final sections progressing
The Royal Canal Greenway between Glasnevin/Phibsborough to Drumcondra/Dorset Street is now fully opened, and shared toucan crossings are now operational at both ends. IrishCycle.com previously reported that the path on the now opened section was to be split between walking (1.5 metre wide) and cycling (2.5 metre wide, two-way), with a kerb down the middle. This website covered how the width of both paths would be substandard for the location and likely use.
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Dom Bryan @domsball.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Critical Mass in Belfast last night. All ages gather for a mass cycle ride around the streets. You should try it. Last Friday of every month.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
If only we could block roads like this when it wasn’t a football celebration…
A council lorry blocking a slip road on Newcastle’s central motorway for the Caraboa cup celebration A black and white banner hanging on Newcastle’s central motorway, celebrating the Carabao Cup
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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
There was this whole thing where people said the French wouldn't embrace bicycle commuting like the Dutch because of inherent cultural traits and these lanes would be ghost towns. Instead, obviously, bike usage exploded as soon as the infrastructure was made available. These are all lessons people!
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I BIKE Dublin @ibikedublin.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
"The driver served nine months, I got a life sentence" - harrowing testimony on RTÉ Radio 1 just now from the mother of a 16 year old boy who was killed by a driver. The justice system is letting down the families of road violence victims and hampering efforts to improve road safety. #RoadSafety
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Highland Cycle Campaign @highlandcyclists.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Some of our members are forming a new campaign group looking at improving the connectivity between public transport and cycling in the Highlands. What issues should they look at?
The handlebars of a bike in front of a train carriage. The carriage features an image of cyclists along with Scottish scenery 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Ards & North Down Cycle Campaign @andccg.bsky.social · 16/03/2025
Spot on article here on Belfast road.cc/content/feat...
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Is this the UK’s worst city for cycling? Riding around Belfast’s abysmal bike network (and why drivers should be cycling campaigners’ best friends) + Do cycling culture war stories harm the bike indus...
On this week’s podcast episode, we jump on the bike for a freezing wet tour of Belfast’s, ahem, variable cycling infrastructure, and take a deep dive into the state of the industry five years on from ...
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BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 07/03/2025
Although the number of people killed, 58, was 16% lower than 2023, our dysfunctional driving culture and the rampant dangers it leads to still makes getting around a risky proposition for far too many.
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PBOT says deaths dipped last year, but worrying trends continue
The initial promise of Portland's vaunted Vision Zero plan will not be fulfilled. But we can't stop trying.
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