Love Your Bike: First Anniversary Cycle Ride
To celebrate the anniversary of the launch of the Love Your Bike campaign we held an event on 30th March 2007 with three main elements:
- 4 rides from Chorlton, Withington, Levenshulme and Prestwich culminating at Albert Square;
- a press call with Cllr Neil Swannick at 8:30 at Albert Square to demonstrate our continued support for cycling in Manchester;
- the publication of a report 'Stepping Up a Gear', which will summarise the findings of the web-based research that we've been carrying out over the year via www.loveyourbike.org.
The key message of all these elements is that many people cycle in Manchester, many more people want to cycle in Manchester but the City Council has to do a lot more to make Manchester cycle-friendly before it is going to become popular with everyone. Manchester will never be the Greenest City, as it wants to be, unless it takes cycling much much more seriously. We are using this report and all the information that has been entered into the Love Your Bike website to make this argument.
