We have our next open meeting on Thursday 13 February at 7pm at the Student Union building on Cambridge Road.

At our last meeting we looked at how the Dutch have created cycle-friendly towns and cities.  Thank you to everyone who attended – we hope you enjoyed it and came away more positive about the future of cycling in Portsmouth.  As a follow-up, we’ll be looking at how we can do this in the UK and in Portsmouth in particular.

We’ll be joined by Eric Booth, chair of the cycle campaign in Bristol, which became the UK’s first ‘cycling city’ in 2008.  They’ve had a number of infrastructure improvements since, and now have ambitions to create their own Dutch-style cycle network of segregated lanes and tracks.

Can we do this in Portsmouth? Or is it too ambitious?  As an example of ambition, Hamburg – Germany’s second largest city – is planning to ban all cars from its city centre within 20 years.

Roger Geffen, the CTC’s national campaigns and policy director will also be speaking about best practice from across the land. Once again we will finish with a Q&A session with our guests plus Cllr Jason Fazackarley, the PCC cabinet member for Traffic & Transportation.