Let's rescue Britain's forgotten 1930s protected cycleways
A project in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK by Carlton Reid000days
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We should revive Britain's long-lost 1930s cycleways (there were 280-miles of them). Many were buried, some are hidden in plain sight.
Backers: 982
Average Pledge Per Backer: £25
Funded: £24,970 of £7,000
Dates: Apr 25th -> May 25th (30 days)
Project By: Carlton Reid
Backers: 982
Average Pledge Per Backer: £25
Funded: £24,970 of £7,000
Dates: Apr 25th -> May 25th (30 days)
Project By: Carlton Reid
£24,970
current pledge level
Last Updated: May 25 @ 03:30 -0400 GMT
356%
of goal
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You beauties! All 982 of you ... 
May 25th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks ever so much for your support for this cycleways-researching cycleways-reviving project. A startling 981 backers pledged an amazing £24,970! Later today we'll send out the first of the backer-only emails. This will set out how and when you'll... (Read More)
How paint could bring back 1980s priority-for-cyclists on this 1930s-era cycleway
May 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Earlier today urban planner John Dales wrote about how we'll be attempting to revive and improve some of the 1930s-era cycleways. He discussed the cycle tracks in Whitley Bay and beside Chertsey Road in Twickenham. The design solutions required at... (Read More)
How we plan to repurpose 80-year-old #space4cycling – part two
May 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Twickenham's Chertsey Road cycle tracks in the 1930s, before development swamped them. This project aims to breathe new life into the 300+ miles of Ministry-of-Transport-funded cycleways built in the late 1930s. Some of the cycleways have long... (Read More)
How we plan to repurpose 80-year-old #space4cycling – part one
May 24th - via: kickstarter.com
This project aims to breathe new life into the 300+ miles of Ministry-of-Transport-funded cycleways built in the late 1930s. Some of the cycleways have long been buried, others are hidden in plain sight. It turns out that there are cycle tracks of... (Read More)
How these Kent cycleways faded from view, 1940–2017
May 23rd - via: kickstarter.com
This project aims to breathe new life into the 300+ miles of Ministry-of-Transport-funded cycleways built in the late 1930s. Some of the cycleways have long been buried, others are hidden in plain sight. Below are examples of both, and they are from... (Read More)
Could this "crap" cycle lane be a remnant of a long-lost 1930s-era cycleway?
May 19th - via: kickstarter.com
Claremont Road in my home town of Newcastle upon Tyne has this strange and very short remnant of something or other. It's not marked on the ground as a cycleway, and nor is it marked on OpenCycleMap, but if it's not a cycleway what is it? I've... (Read More)
This 1934 photo of Holland inspired the UK's Ministry of Transport to "Go Dutch"
May 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Days after this photograph of the Amsterdam–Haarlem Road appeared in The Times of London in February 1934 the Ministry of Transport’s chief engineer, Colonel Bressey, contacted the director of the Dutch infrastructure ministry to ask him... (Read More)
A purdah promise to project backers
May 17th - via: kickstarter.com
A journalist has been in touch asking to set up for an interview for next Thursday, this project's deadline day. I thought I'd share my reply: I’ll be happy to talk generally, and can certainly discuss the total raised, but from 8.07am next... (Read More)
Quietway, 1935
May 13th - via: kickstarter.com
This campaign isn't just crowd-funded it's also crowd-guided. We've been sent other locations to check out on Google Street View – could these be added to the 80 or so we had already located? Yes, and the map now has more than 90 locations where... (Read More)
Cycleways were built for workers in the 1930s, roads were for rich motorists
May 12th - via: kickstarter.com
Why did the Ministry of Transport build hundreds of miles of (now forgotten) cycleways? Partly it was out of concern – the death rate on the roads was hideous at the time – but it was also because planners and politicians wanted roads cleared of... (Read More)
Radio 4 You and Yours
May 11th - via: kickstarter.com
There will be a seven minute feature on this campaign starting now ... http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qps9 And it'll be available as a podcast later. (Read More)
Britain
May 11th - via: curbed.com
The campaign seeks to identify and recover relics of a national network of cycle tracks from the (Read More)
Transport experts tripped up by flipped "Dutch" image of 1930s British cycleway
May 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Flipped image of Lostock Road, Manchester, mid-1930s The main image for this Kickstarter campaign is of a young woman riding along a mid-1930s residential cycleway in Manchester. During a talk I gave to a bunch of transport cycling experts a... (Read More)
2nd stretch goal reached triggering launch of cycling-history podcast
May 9th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to all those who've backed this project. You'll be getting digital updates of our work, and these will now include audio updates, too. You'll get premium-level access to a new cycling-themed history podcast. CyclingHistory.today (not to be... (Read More)
Cycleways campaign makes the BBC news!
May 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Technology reporter Chris Baraniuk has posted a story about this campaign on the BBC website. Thanks to this press release, it's possible that more media coverage could be on the way. Cheers. Carlton (Read More)
How I used Google Streetview to find Britain's 1930s-era cycleways
May 8th - via: kickstarter.com
Some of the 1930s-era cycleways identified by this project are either fully or partially buried, and it'll take time, money and effort to bring them back to life. Others are hidden-in-plain-sight – they've been wide and often kerb-protected since... (Read More)
Kickstarter Live can now be, er, kicked off
May 6th - via: kickstarter.com
349 wonderful people have now pledged over £10,000 so that means the first stretch level has been reached, activating the Kickstarter Live sessions. Backers will get notification when these sessions – featuring both of us – will be... (Read More)
Please help us get out the message: Now is not the end, it's just the start
May 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
This post is for backers only. Please visit Kickstarter.com and log in to read. (Read More)
THEN & NOW: the importance of period photographs
May 1st - via: kickstarter.com
The long and impressive 9-ft-wide protected cycleways both sides of Durham Road in Sunderland have been that long and impressive since the 1930s. As can be seen in our campaign video, the cycleway offers protection on a roundabout and – as Mark... (Read More)
1940s protected British roundabout
April 29th - via: kickstarter.com
As this Kickstarter project shows, Britain had at least 280 miles of separated cycleways by 1940. According to Design & Layout of Roads in Built-up Areas of 1946, a style-guide from the Ministry of War Transport, this provision included the sort... (Read More)
Project is go!
April 28th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to all those who have backed this project, it has met its Kickstarter target of £7,000. This is wonderful news and means that, at the end of the campaign, we can hit the ground cycling. However, after the euphoria wears off, it's important... (Read More)
“Give me the Kingston By-Pass on a Saturday afternoon"
April 27th - via: kickstarter.com
“Give me the Kingston By-Pass on a Saturday afternoon,” sang Noël Coward in 1952. It’s clearly not one of his best songs, but it shows how Brits were terribly excited by the modernity exemplified by these new arterials. In fact, the... (Read More)
This is a "tremendously worthwhile project" says CEO of London Cycling Campaign
April 25th - via: kickstarter.com
“When we ran our Love London, Go Dutch campaign in 2012 we thought we had won something new with the continental-style cycle lanes now appearing across London," emails London Cycling Campaign CEO Dr Ashok Sinha. "Carlton Reid and John Dales have... (Read More)
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