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Cycling in Brighton & Hove has seen substantial growth in recent years. (27% increase recorded in the 2006-2008 period.)
However, around 45% of city workers who use a car to get to work drive less than three miles. This accounts for over 27,000 cars per day. So there is great potential for increasing safe cycling - and also to bring other benefits on both an individual and a wider level.
What the council is doing
As a national exemplar Cycling Town, Brighton & Hove City Council is dedicated to promoting healthy and environmentally friendly travel.
Cycle lanes are provided across the city, including along the seafront, Grand Avenue and The Drive, Hove to Hangleton, and Lewes Road. Many of these are part of the national and regional cycle route network.
A north south cycle freeway has been completed and provides a link between the Downs, from the Dyke Railway Trail in Hangleton to the seafront via Hove station. The southern section along Grand Avenue and The Drive (pictured above, far right) is a segregated, motor-vehicle free, European-style cycle freeway.
Brighton & Hove's popular suite of cycle maps was updated in early 2010:
- city wide map [PDF 6.19MB]
- city centre map [PDF 1.5mb]
- coastal route [PDF 2.21MB]
- seafront to The Downs map [PDF 1.68MB]
- maps, guides and information about cycling in and around the city, and going further afield by bike from VisitBrighton
The council has set also an example as an employer by publishing a Staff Travel Plan, providing secure cycle parking at its key buildings, offering mileage allowances for work-related bicycle journeys, cyclists' showers and interest-free loans for staff to buy bikes.
A number of further schemes to encourage cycling are being progressed as part of the European Civitas fund.
Additional cycle parking places are also being installed across the city.
- Brighton & Hove's Cycling Town page
- List of events happening on Madeira Drive during 2010, which may require temporary diversions of the seafront cycle route.
- More details of Brighton & Hove's Cycling Town progress, and future plans, on Cycling England's website
- "Lift off" for Cycling report from Cycling England
Other useful links and information:
- Register your bike free at www.immobilise.com
- Protecting your bike - see www.safeinthecity.info
- cycle hire, training and maintenance
- Consultations
- Cycling Strategy [PDF 82kb]
- www.journeyon.co.uk - a "one stop shop" for city travel and transport information, including an on-line journey planner, real-time transport information and links to city events
- request for cycle parking
- report an abandoned bike
- cyclist advanced stop lines
- Personalised Travel Planning project
- workplace travel planning and Travel Plan Partnership
- School Travel Plans , Bike It and Bike Club
- Safer Routes to School
- Sustrans - national cycle network- and a link to "Bike Belles", information specially designed to meet the needs of female cyclists
- New Road
- public transport, and Breeze up to the Downs
- Active for Life
- Road Safety
- Operation Crackdown - Report Anti-Social behaviour on the road
Cycling clubs, local cycling organisations and cycling interest groups
There are a large number of these featured on the East Sussex Community Information site - see www.escis.org.uk for further details.More information
For general advice and information on cycling and walking, contact the council's Walking & Cycling Officer on (01273) 290487 or email: travel.planning@brighton-hove.gov.uk
- Would you like to be a Brighton & Hove travel case study? Email Transport Planning (travel.planning@brighton-hove.gov.uk)
- Can you help? NHS Bristol is urging cyclists to help find out more about what causes 'non-collision cycling incidents'. Click here for more information [166 KB], and a short survey.



