cycling Archives - Blackpool Social Club

31 Jul

Cycling UK launches Big Bike Revival in Blackpool

David Simper0 CommentsLocal News, Sports & Wellbeingbig bike revival, bike maintenance, bike rides, Blackpool, cycle training, cycling, cycling uk

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Cycling UK has launched its Big Bike Revival in Blackpool, which will fix would-be cyclists’ bikes, teach them essential skills and lead rides to support more people cycling. The programme will support new and returning cyclists using free events delivered locally by community led groups. People can bring their bikes and receive a basic cycle service. They can learn essential maintenance skills, learn how to ride a bike from beginner level or join a led bike ride to increase their cycle confidence.[/vc_column_text][vc_single_image image="35266" img_size="large" alignment="center"][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Cycling UK estimates that one in three UK people own or have access to a…

17 Nov

State of the art building to bring 3,000 civil servants to Blackpool town centre

David Simper0 CommentsLocal NewsBlackpool, building, built environment, bus, civil service, climate emergency, cycling, energy efficiency, environment, Fylde Coast, job creation, jobs, public realm, regeneration, sustainable building design, sustainable development, sustainable transport, talbot gateway, trains, trams

Sited on King Street in Blackpool Town centre, a new £100m state of the art building will soon take shape to accommodate 3,000 civil servants from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP). This will make a major and welcome beneficial change to the Blackpool skyline. As part of a strategic plan to centralise civil service jobs in the heart of Blackpool, workers from the Warbreck House and Ryscar House complexes will occupy the building when it opens in the autumn of 2024. This will provide a welcome boost to and diversify the town centre economy and will be a…

05 Aug

Blackpool residents urged to have their say on decarbonising transport plans

David Simper0 CommentsEnvironment and Nature, Local Newsbuses, climate, cycling, decarbonising, trams, transport, transportforthenorth

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Transport for the North has put together a decarbonising transport strategy in response to the obviously escalating climate emergency situation. As a coastal place Blackpool's likely to be vulnerable to sea level rises due to ice melt thousands of miles away (get your glaciers now). We may need to make quite radical life style changes to fend this threat off, going a lot further than altering our transport habits. It's definitely worth taking a look at this draft strategy; this is the north taking a lead, which has to be a good thing.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width="1/2"][vc_column_text]Studying an environmental degree in the…

25 Jul

Let’s talk safer cycling 🚲

Catherine Mugonyi0 CommentsLocal Newsconsultation, cycling

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Blackpool is currently part way through a multi-million pound regeneration programme that aims to create more job opportunities, better transport, more modern streets and better places to shop, eat, stay and enjoy. As part of generating a brighter place to live and work, the council has secured funding from the central government Active Travel Fund to implement a cycle scheme on the A587 St Walburgas Road.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Residents are being asked for their views on the proposed cycle scheme that will run between Plymouth Road roundabout and Four Lanes End roundabout. Many new cycle lanes are appearing up and down the…

02 Nov

On yer bike: Blackpool joins ParkThatBike initiative

Stephanie Cottle2 CommentsLocal NewsBlackpool, cycling

Blackpool joins ParkThatBike to promote pedal power! If you’re anything like me then-recent events led to you taking bold steps into the shed to seek out what lurks in the dark beneath the dust sheets and years of cobwebs. Your long-forgotten bicycle. That’s right, during lockdown record numbers of us found ourselves pumping up tyres and brandishing cans of WD40 in an attempt to gain as much distance from the house as legally possible at the time. Wonderful freedom, or so we thought. As with so many methods of mobility, cycling still presents the issue of parking and I often…

02 Aug

Ride The Lights with Rebecca Alper.

Blackpool Social Club0 CommentsColumns & Opinion, Local News, Sports & Wellbeingcycling, ridethelights

My favourite thing about Ride The Lights is the noise – or rather, the lack of it. As someone who frequently cycles through the busy Starr Gate area at rush hour, there is something magical about the eerie quiet – save for the gentle tinkling of bells and spinning of pedals – that descends for the evening. The two-wheeled takeover, rechristened Let’s Ride the Lights this year, returns on Tuesday 28 August. Traffic is stopped along the Promenade all the way to Bispham as cyclists enjoy an early preview of the Illuminations before the official Switch-On, as well as…