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Cycle City Ambition

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£114m boost as winners of second wave of Cycle City Ambition funding announced

Birmingham, Leeds, Manchester, Bristol, Newcastle, Norwich, Oxford & Cambridge to get more cash for cycling

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Norwich Cathedral (licensed on Flicke under CC BY-ND 2.0 by .Martin.)

Norwich plans further £15.4m cycling investment – subject to DfT approval

East Anglian city bids for £8.4m of Cycle City Ambition funding to boost its Push the Pedalways project

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Leeds Headrow and Town Hall (credit Welcome to Yorkshire www.yorkshire.com)

Work starts on Leeds-Bradford cycle superhighway

14-mile route forms part of £29.2 million City Connect scheme

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Norwich in race against time to secure Cycle City Ambition funding

Council hoping that government will be flexible over specifics

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British Cycling and CTC hit the party conferences to call for action not words on “cycling revolution”

Chris Boardman and Jon Snow address MPs, mass bike rides in Manchester and Birmingham

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Leeds plans 20mph zones in communities along its £29m “super cycleway”

News comes as charity Brake lobbies MPs for lower speed limit, saying 8 in 10 people back GO 20 campaign

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Manchester Oxford Road cycle lane (source TfGM)

TfGM starts works that will transform cycling in part of Manchester city centre (+ videos)

Bus priority programme which introduces segregated cycle lanes will be completed in 2015

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New York City segregated cycle lane (CC licensed on Flickr by Dylan Passmore)

Cycling Minister hosts Leeds conference on cycle-proofing cities… but he’s not shouting about it

Meanwhile, British Cycling and TfGM get expert advice from New York City on growing cycling in Manchester

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Cambridge bikes (CC licenced by fionaandneil:Flickr)

Cambridge to improve links to southern business parks with £1.7m new segregated cycle paths

Wide new lanes will safely take city residents to work south of the city

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Manchester Oxford Road cycle lane (source TfGM)

DfT urged to change road design rules now or risk strangling David Cameron’s ‘Cycling Revolution’

Cycle City Ambition cash could be wasted if planned road design rule changes not brought in now, say CTC and British Cycling

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