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The State of Things

Here we discuss the State of all Things related to Cycling, thoughts that cross our mind as we criss-cross the Ards Peninsula on two wheels.

At last! After last week's blog we have good news to report: we have now received a a courteous reply from the Department for...

Mar 15, 20245 min read

Q: What happens when you send an inquiry to the Minister for Infrastructure? A: Nothing. No wonder so little gets done here! Let me back...

Mar 8, 20243 min read

Last week I read an interesting piece on the causes of conflicts between drivers and cyclists by Peter Norton , an Associate Professor...

Jan 18, 20245 min read

By Stephen McCrory, Chariman, ANDCCG The Ards and North Down Cycle Campaign is one year old! So how has it been? In some ways we could...

Jan 12, 20244 min read

What is SMIDSY? If you are a motorcyclist, I will not need to explain that abbreviation to you – you have heard it before, many times:...

Nov 3, 20233 min read

Earlier his week I perused some UK Cycling statistics detailed in a report on Cycling UK’s website. It is sobering reading for cycle...

Sep 29, 20236 min read

A caveat: if you use Google as your default search engine and click "I accept" on every website that asks you to accepts its cookies,...

Sep 22, 20235 min read