University seeks your views on commuting by bike as part of Cycle to Work Day.
We’d like your views on how else we can make cycling a more attractive commuting option.
Catrin Darsley, Environmental Coordinator
This month sees plenty of cycle-related activities coming to the University, encouraging staff to get on their bikes.
For the first time the University will run a cyclists' breakfast on Cycle to Work Day (September 4), handing out free coffee and asking for staff-members' views on how to make commuting to work on a bike more attractive.
Later this month the Cambridgeshire Cycle Challenge will be held to see which organisation can get the most people cycling over a four week period.
Catrin Darsley, Environmental Coordinator at the University, said: “Although Cambridge is known as a cycling city, there’s a lot that the University can do to support people in making their way by pedal power. Cycle to Work Day is a great opportunity to try it out for a lot of people, and we’ll be celebrating by giving out free coffee and breakfast to staff who travel by bike to Lady Mitchell Hall on the Sidgwick Site from 7.45am on Thursday.
"This is the first time that the University has run a cyclists’ breakfast, and we’d like your views on how else we can make cycling a more attractive commuting option. Remember to log your journeys as part of Cycle to Work Day and you could win prizes thanks to the organisers, Cyclescheme.”
Anyone interested in carrying on with a cycling challenge can invite their department to enter as a team – or sign up as an individual – to the Cambridgeshire Cycle Challenge which will run from Monday, 15 September to Sunday, 12 October. This is a free web-based competition to will see which businesses can get the most people cycling over the four week period.
To view images from the Cycle to Work Day event go to: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.695943523831884.1073741834.530....