Sustrans shares expertise to change
Nottingham staff and students’ travel habits

People at The University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and the Queen's Medical Centre (QMC) will be encouraged to walk and cycle to and from campus in an investment project worth well over £3million over the next two years (from September 2009)

Working with Nottingham City Council the sustainable transport charity Sustrans will lend its expertise to an innovative new scheme to promote healthy, sustainable travel at the University of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent University and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.

The Project Manager, Joanna Ward, is in charge of a team of 3 Bike-It officers (similar in concept to those who Sustrans has used very successfully at schools in several places, for some years now), funded by Cycling England. For this project the 3 will be based at Nottingham University, Nottingham Trent University and the QMC, to help develop a concentrated programme to promote cycling over the next 3 years.

The project is a great boost for cycling in Nottingham, with an input of major new funding at a time of general cutbacks, and Pedals intends to work closely with Sustrans and the City Council to help make it very successful.

• for more information contact
  Joanna Ward - Project Manager, Sustrans Nottingham University Project,
  Sustrans Project Office, Room B41A, Biology Building,
  The University of Nottingham, University Park, Nottingham NG7 2RD,
  
  Direct Dial - (0115) 08232396, Mobile - 07825 182615,

  email: joanna.ward [at] sustrans [dot] org [dot] uk
  

  
  

The press release is attached below, along with a project update from Joanna Ward (April 2010) and UCycle Project newsletters.

• See also the information on the Sustrans website at: www.sustrans.org.uk/ucyclenottingham

  

  The photo, published in the Nottingham Post of 10 May 2010, shows Hugh McClintock of Pedals talking to UCycle prizewinners Hannah Constantin, Willow Fuchs, Liz Rodgers and John Astill following an award ceremony in the Portland Building at Nottingham University.

  They were winners in a competition organised as part of the "Do Something Different" part of the UCycle Project, encouraging staff and students at Nottingham's two Universities and the QMC and City Hospitals to get on their bikes.
  Acknowledgements: Nottingham Post.

• New links installed in 2010 as part of the UCycle Project on the route between
  University Park and the Jubilee Campus of Nottingham University
  

• See also article on the launch of the UCycle Project in the Nottingham Post of
  9 September 2010:
  http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Students-saddle-UK-s-biggest-bike-loan-scheme/article-2615573-detail/article.html