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Active Travel Cafe

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We are a friendly weekly forum on sustainable & safe transport (particularly walking, cycling & decarbonisation)

(we rebranded as the Active Travel Cafe in October 2022 and were formerly known as Ideas with Beers)

Follow us on Twitter at @activetravelcafEmail us at activetravelcafe{at}gmail.com

Our archive

Sept 2022

Video recording of the session

Dr Grahame Cooper,
third-party reporting analysis

IWB-OpConsiderate.pdf

Pop-Up Parklets day
www.theparkletscampaign.com/

13/09/2022 - Speakers: Dulce Pedroso ( @DulcePedroso1 / athousandwordsconsulting.com ) Still I Ride: How women of colour are challenging discourses in and through cycling. Also featuring: Review of Ideas with Beers incl. new format and proposal for name change.

Video recording of the session

Dulce Pedroso;
writer, researcher, communicator

Still I Ride_Ideas with beers_Dulce Pedroso_September 2022.pdf

Ideas with Beers - review and proposed changes including new name

ideas with beers review and look aheadAug2022

July 2022

19/07/2022 - Speakers: Rosslyn Colderley, England Director (North), Sustrans on the new walking and cycling index and Gemma Cowan, of Things That Go On Things, on Compact Disco - the bike-powered travelling discotheque, complete with playlist, performers and DJ.

Video recording of the session
will appear here

Rosslyn Colderley, Sustrans

WACI 2021 Rosslyn Colderley presentation.pdf

Gemma Cowan, Compact Disco

News update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 19.07.2022.pptx

12/07/2022 - Speaker: Harriet Hird, Marketing Director of Zedify, who run the largest fleet of light electric vehicles (LEVs) in the UK, which includes cargo bikes, trikes and quads.

Video recording of the session
will appear here

Harriet Hird, Zedify

News update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 12.07.2022.pptx

05/07/2022 - Speaker: Bike trainer David Dansky recounts his experience being badly injured in a road traffic crash, his subsequent recovery and further reflections.

Video recording of the session
will appear here

David Dansky

Dansky's crash presentation.pptx

June 2022

28/06/2022 - Speakers: Robin Tucker (@robintucker1) on campaigning for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods in Oxford, Gareth Dennis (@GarethDennis), reviews the state of play with plans for enhancing the train network in northern England.

Video recording of the session

Robin Tucker

Oxford is becoming known for its strong support for Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs). Robin shared some of the knowledge built up in Oxford: including this leaflet. 👇

Oxon CoHSAT LTN Res Guide for IWB 28Jun2022.pptx

News update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 28.06.2022.pptx

21/06/2022 - Speakers: Jo Rigby (@JoRigby_Balham), Wandsworth councillor and transport committee chair, and Eleanor Roaf, Public Health Director of Trafford in Greater Manchester

Video recording of the session

Public Health Director Eleanor Roaf on the Public Health case for Active Travel

Active travel and air quality.pptx

News update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 21.06.2022.pptx

14/06/2022 - Speakers: Rachel Aldred, Professor of Transport at the University of Westminster and Director of the Active Travel Academy, and Clare Rogers, Healthy Streets Campaigner in London (@subversivite)

Video recording of the session

Rachel Aldred

Aldred_People_Places_IWB.pdf

Clare Rogers

Ideas With Beers talk - community support for LTNs 2.pptx

News update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 14.06.2022.pptx

07/06/2022 - Speakers: Chris Bruntlett, Dutch Cycle Embassy and Modacity on how cycling can enable disabled people to stay active plus a Q&A about tips on inclusive street design from around the world.

Video recording of the session

Chris Bruntlett, Dutch Cycling Embassy and Modacity

Chris_Bruntlett.pptx

News update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 07.06.2022.pptx

May 2022

24/5/2022 - Speakers: Graham Grant, Assistant Director of Transport, Newcastle - Opportunities and challenges for Local Authorities building cycling infrastructure and Roger Geffen, Policy lead, Cycling UK.

Video recording of the session

Roger Geffen, Policy Director Cycling UK, on political campaign priorities 2022/3

2205_RG_IWB_Political-priorities-2022-3_pres.pptx

News update from Dr Bob Davis (+ extra reporting, Mark Strong)

Update 24.05.2022.pptx

17/05/2022 - Speakers: Tim Gill (@timrgill) and Alice Ferguson (@aliceplayingout) on why child-friendly streets should be at the heart of planning and place-making.

Video recording of the session

Tim Gill, author How Child Friendly Planning & Design Can Save Cities

TG UP ideaswithbeers 4 3.pptx

Alice Ferguson, founder of Playing Out on reclaiming public space for children

Alice Ideas with beers compressed.pptx

Alison Stenning on May's Kidical Mass when thousands of kids took to safer streets in the UK

Kidical Mass for IWB.pptx

10/05/2022 - Speakers: Adam Tranter, West Midlands walking & Cycling Commissioner. Oliver Lord, Head of UK campaigns, Clean Cities.

Video recording of the session

News update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 10.05.2022.pptx

03/05/2022 - Speakers: Llinos Brown from the Leeds Institute of Transport Studies on new research into the effects of Covid on travel patterns in the UK. And Sarah Hughes from Cam Cycle on a new cargo bike scheme in Cambridge.

Video recording of the session

Llinos Brown, Leeds Institute of Transport Studies

Ideaswithbeers_3rdMay22_nonotes.pptx

Sarah Hughes, Cam Cycle

Ideas with Beers.pdf

News update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 03.05.2022.pptx

April 2022

26/04/2022 - Speakers: Rod King, 20s Plenty, on the new Speed Camera phone app that enables anyone to report bad driving, and Mark Strong, Transport Initiatives, on the good, the bad and the downright ugly ... examples of bike parking.

Video recording of the session

Mark Strong, Transport Initiatives, on Bike Parking

IWB cycle parking 2022.pptx

News update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 26.04.2022.pptx

No sessions on 12th of 19th of April

05/04/2022 - Speakers: Michael Barratt MBE, TfL, on accessibility in the temporary environment, Ben Knowles, Pedalme, shares his take on the state of play with the cargo bike sector and the company he founded.

Video recording of the session

Mark's 'Infra Insert'

c008-iwb-5-4-22.pdf

Ben Knowles, Pedalme

News update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 05.04.2022.pptx

March 2022

29/03/2022 - Speakers: Saskia Heijltjes, Bath Bicycle Mayor and Kidical Mass, and Darren Reynolds on Bikeability and other cycle training. Plus a tribute to Heavy Metal Handcyclist, RIP.

Video recording of the session including

Saskia Heijltjes, Bath Bike Mayor Tips on organising Kidical Mass

Kidical Mass - Ideas with Beers.pdf

Darren Reynolds
Is Bikeability working when child cycling rates are still only 1-2%?

Get_children_cycling.pdf

Regular news update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 29.03.2022.pptx

22/03/2022 - Speakers: Cllr Waseem Zaffar MBE, Transport and Environment Exec Birmingham City Council, Sue Mellor Active Wellbeing Society on Big Bikes Birmingham

Video recording of the session

Cllr Waseem Zaffar, MBE, Birmingham City Council

Reducing the impact of the car - IWB Forum 22.03.22 FINAL.pptx

Sue Mellor, Active Wellbeing Society

Big Birmingham Bikes Presentation.pptx

Regular news update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 22.03.2022.pptx

15/03/2022 - Infrastructure special: what to look for - and when to compromise

Video recording of the whole session

@Mark Philpotts from City Infinity on 'Good Enough' infrastructure: when to say ok & when to say no!

2022-03-15 IWB Good Enough.pdf

Simon Munk, London Cycle Campaign - Perfect versus Good & knowing the difference

IWB Mar 22 perfect v good.pptx

Regular news update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 15.03.2022.pptx

08/03/2022 - An #IWD special with Naseem Akhtar from Saheli Cycling, Birmingham & Kirsty Lewin from Infra Sisters, Edinburgh.

Video recording of the whole session

Naseem Akhtar from Saheli Cycling

Beers presentation

Kirsty Lewin from Infra Sisters

InfraSisters - March 2022.pptx

Regular news update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 08.03.2022.pptx

01/03/2022

Video recording of the whole session featuring our regular news update plus speakers . Will appear here.


Amy Aeron-Thomas (Action Vision Zero) rounds up the state of play with the battle to toughen roads policing in England

AVZ Roads Policing campaign for IWB-01Mar2022.pptx

Regular news update (slides) from Dr Bob Davis

Update 01.03.2022.pptx

February 2022

15/02/2022

Video recording of the whole session - Chris Todd at 16 min 50 secs.

Chris Todd (Director of Transport Action Network) assesses the likelihood of halting road building in England (slides)

Ideas-With-Beers.pptx

Regular news update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 15.02.2022.pptx

08/02/2022

Sally Hinchcliffe & Suzanne Forup - transformation of Walk, Cycle, Vote campaign to the Walk, Wheel, Cycle, Vote campaign

Idea with Beers 2022.pptx

Regular news update from Dr Bob Davis

Update 08.02.2022.pptx

01/02/2022

Recording of the whole session

Critique of active travel media campaigns from Steve Conner (CEO, Creative Concern)

220201_IWB_a world of cycling.pdf

Regular news update slides from Dr Bob Davis

Update 01.02.2022.pptx

January 2022

25/01/2022

Video recording of the whole session featuring our regular news update plus speakers Jim Densham (Cycling UK Scotland) reviewing the state of play with Active Travel in Scotland (23 mins) & Sam Shaw (Raeburn Farquhar Bowen architects) on how to design Active Travel into new housing (Meadowbank) (55 mins).

Regular news update slides from Dr Bob Davis

Update 25.01.2022.pptx

18/01/2022

Video recording of the whole session featuring our regular news update plus speakers Chris Roberts (former special advisor to the Welsh government) reviewing the state of play with Active Travel and Transport decarbonisation in Wales (24 mins) plus Roger Geffen (UK Cycling) on the Highway Code review (54 mins 30 sec).

Regular news update slides from Dr Bob Davis

Update 18.01.2022.pptx

11/01/2022

Video recording of the whole session featuring our regular news update plus speakers Simon Munk (London Cycle Campaign) on campaigning tips (at 27 mins) and Roger Geffen (UK Cycling) on the review of road traffic offences and penalties (at 55 mins).

Regular news update slides from Dr Bob Davis

Update 11.01.2022.pptx

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