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Great Pedal Away Festival

Great Pedal Away Festival on Sunday 22 September.
Cycling Projects is a North West based charity with a national network making cycling accessible to everyone. Its Wheels for All programme supports disabled people by providing a range of adapted cycles at regular sessions and its Pedal Away programme brings people together to deliver health and social benefits.
The annual Great Pedal Away festival takes place on Sunday 22nd September 2019 at Aintree Racecourse. This year the event will be bigger and better than previous years; there is a 40+ Mile Challenge for regular cyclists and fundraisers, a 17+ Mile ‘Light’ ride, an under 8s ride, a family social ride, a Wheels for All disability cycling session, ditch your stabilisers workshop and a Step Out for Stroke Walk.
Register at participant.co.uk/GPA19
Free self-led family ride gpa19.eventbrite.co.uk

Liverpool ‘Upper Central’ consultation

Upper Central is a newly branded area of Liverpool, covering 56 acres in the middle of Liverpool city centre – the area is to be the subject of a draft masterplan to create an international standard gateway site to a £2bn flagship regeneration scheme.
Running from Central Station to Liverpool Science Park and Lime Street to Bold Street, Upper Central is seen as key to the future development of the city’s Knowledge Quarter.
http://www.uppercentral.co.uk

Public consultations:

FACT, 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ
Thursday 8 August 2019
1300-1800

Central Station, Liverpool, L1 1QE
Tuesday 20 August 2019
1000-1500

RIBA North, 21 Mann Island, Liverpool, L3 1BP
Thursday 5 September 2019
1300-1800

CLIMATE CRISIS? Let’s build more roads!

Liverpool City Council plans a dual carriageway along Sefton Street, Riverside Drive and Jericho Lane.
How much of Otterspool Park will be lost? How much more pollution will this new road cause?

Public Information Exhibitions

Monday 22 July 2019 – 10.00-19.00
Spinnaker Suite, The Yacht Club, Liverpool Marina, Coburg Wharf, Liverpool L3 4BP

Tuesday 23 July 2019 – 15.00-19.00
Atrium, Central Library, William Brown Street, Liverpool L3 8EW

Forthcoming Events

Saturday 9 June – 10:00-12:00 or 14:00-16:00
Green Baltic Mapping Workshop
The Women’s Organisation, 54 St. James Street
Working together to create a map of a sustainable future for the Baltic.
More details on Twitter @SophieP53468320

Wednesday 12 June – 17:30
Wirral Active Travel Forum
Pacific Road Hub

Wednesday 19 June – 17:00
Liverpool City Council Cycle Forum
Merseytravel, 1 Mann Island, Liverpool L3 1BP

ASPIRATIONAL CYCLE MAPPING EVENT

Wednesday 29 May 2019 – 14.00 to 18.30
DoES Liverpool, 1st Floor, The Tapestry, 68-76 Kempston Street, Liverpool L3 8HL

Liverpool City Council cycling and walking officer, Jayne Rodgers, is hoping to develop an Aspirational Cycling Map for the city that ‘maps’ a connected network of routes that local people use to travel around on their bikes. There is already a body of work that has been conducted by Simon O’Brien, the new LCC cycling champion, that identifies a network of routes to connect the greenspaces and highlights some potential low traffic and green corridors. The idea is to overlay Simon’s routes with the existing map data, the corridors identified in the LCWIP propensity to cycle tool exercise and your ideas for connections. 
Map tables will be set out at the event so that people can drop in and tell Jayne all about their ways of getting around and how we can identify appropriate routes that make those ‘missing links’.

GARY MAHONEY MEMORIAL DEBATE

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gary-mahoney-memorial-debate-climate-change-and-the-media-tickets-60921374471

The fifth annual Gary Mahoney Memorial Debate will take place on Thursday 6th June, held in tribute to the exceptional environmental scientist and campaigner Gary Mahoney, who died in late 2014.

The provisional title for this year’s Debate is ‘A Climate of Truth, Lies or Secrecy? – How Climate Change and other environmental concerns are treated by the media.’ 

It will take place in the Pearce Room at the Britannia Adelphi Hotel, Liverpool on Thursday 6 June at 7.30pm – preceded by informal networking as our monthly Green Drinks Liverpool is held downstairs in the Adelphi’s Wave Bar from 6pm.

vote bike

The local elections are on the 2nd May, below is a downloadable letter you can send to prospective candidates to promote the Made to Move campaign in your area.

https://www.writetothem.com/

We all have the right to travel safely but when it comes to walking or cycling on Merseyside roads you or your child are more likely to be killed or injured than in any other area in the country.  In addition to this, traffic, a major cause of air pollution, is killing 725 people per year in the region.  It also causes ill health, linked to heart disease, stroke and cancer as well as asthma and other respiratory illness.   The Made to Move Merseyside campaign, aims to challenge the current political administration to adopt a 15 point plan and truly commit to transform the region for those living within it.

There is also a petition you can sign and encourage your local councillors and MPs to sign: https://www.change.org/p/1000-made-to-move-merseyside