Rethinking urban space

1. Cycling and the city
Only just how?
Katja Leyendecker
Newcastle Cycling Campaign

2. WHAT'S
UP

3. Short journeys by bike
Source various

4. No access to motor vehicle
Newcastle households 42%
Wards vary >>
?
Policy?
Opportunity?
What should Newcastle do?
Role of Integrated Transport Authority / LEP?
Many car journeys may be generated outside Newcastle.
Source Census 2011

5. What's needed
People who currently
cycle, cycle regardless of
the current conditions
The majority of people
don't cycle
And they tell us they don't
cycle because cycling
• is for kids and not normal for
adults
• there is no safe space for
cycling

6. What's needed
Political will
Steady funding /
investment
Technical
expertise,
engineering and
land use planning

7. What has happened?

8. What has happened?

9. What has happened?

10. What has happened?

11. What has happened?

12. What has happened?

13. What has happened?

14. What has happened?

15. What has happened?

16. What has happened?

17. What has happened?

18. What has happened?

19. What has happened?
Bike-related initiatives, campaigns and
businesses, springing up left right and centre
The culture is growing
Otherwise... lot of talk, very little physical action

20. RETHINKING
URBAN
SPACE

21. Changing streetscapes
Great North Road
Now

22. Changing streetscapes
Great North Road
Future

23. Changing streetscapes
Great North Road
Now

24. Changing streetscapes
Great North Road
Future

25. Changing streetscapes
Tankerville Terrace
Now

26. Changing streetscapes
Tankerville Terrace
Future

27. Changing streetscapes
John Dobson Street
Now

28. Changing streetscapes
John Dobson Street
Future

29. Rethinking urban spaces
Grey Street

30. ELSE
WHERE

31. Protected cycleways
Tavistock Place, London

32. Protected cycleways
Kiel, Germany

33. Protected cycleways
Barcelona, Spain

34. Protected cycleways
Sydney, Australia

35. Protected cycleways
Barcelona, Spain

36. Protected cycleways
Estepona, Spain

37. Space clarity

38. Space clarity

39. Filtering modes

40. Necking down

41. Re-purposing space
Vancouver, Canada

42. Information
Promotion
Marketing

43. Pedal positive please

44. Pedal positive please

45. Pedal positive please

46. Pedal positive please

47. Cycling will never be the same again
A city where everyone can cycle
BUILD IT AND THEY WILL COME
Newcastle Cycling Campaign
newcycling.org