03/09/2010
Shrewsbury Street Theatre Festival
04/09/2010
New Shelter Opening at Shrewsbury Sports Village Cycle Track
04/09/2010
Extra women on wheels ride from Wellington
04/09/2010
Tour de Baschurch
05/09/2010
Women on wheels social ride
About Cycle Shrewsbury
In the summer of 2008 Shrewsbury was one of only 12 towns to be awarded cycling town status by Cycling England. As a result Shrewsbury will benefit from £1.8 million of grant funding from the Department for Transport over the next three years. Cycle Shrewsbury is the campaign that Shropshire Council is running with the cycling town funding.
What is the cycling town initiative?
Cycling towns and cities is an initiative managed by Cycling England. There are now 18 towns with cycling town status. Each of the cycling towns has a unique vision and different projects but we all share Cycling England's aim to help more people to cycle, more safely, more often.
Find out where the other cycling towns and cities are.
What does being a cycling town mean for Shrewsbury?
There are lots of great reasons for Shrewsbury to be a cycling town. It's a beautiful town with lots of traffic-free routes, including a wonderful route along the river Severn. We have some very flat areas and lots of people have short journeys to their school or workplace that can easily be made on a bicycle.
We already have more people cycling than the national average; however there is a lot more we want to do to make cycling in Shrewsbury easier, safer and quicker. Our aim is to double overall levels of cycling in the town by 2011, through:
- improvements to the cycle network
- more cycle training for adults and children, including Bikeability Level 3
- programmes to help more people to cycle to schools and workplaces
- promoting leisure cycling
- providing advice on practical issues such as buying a bike, maintaining it, and choosing a route.
For more details about Cycle Shrewsbury's plans to make Shrewsbury a better place to cycle you can download the Cycle Shrewsbury delivery strategy or watch a short film about our plans. Alternatively, visit the schools, workplaces or proposed network sections of this website for details of specific projects.
Cycle Shrewsbury has support from a wide range of individuals and organisations. View a full list of our partners.
Shrewsbury will also benefit from the Sustrans Connect2 lottery win which will help to fund major infrastructure improvements in the town centre, completing the traffic-free riverside path through the town. More information about Sustrans Connect2.
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