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Cycling in Gateshead

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Cycling on Gateshead Millennium Bridge

Gateshead is committed to encouraging cycling as a mode of transport by providing a safe and convenient cycling network, secure cycle parking and by providing facilities which will serve to encourage cycle use.

Gateshead will continue to promote cycling by producing and distributing cycle maps, signposting National Bike Week and by organising cycle rides.

On the right hand side of this page you can download Cycle North East's guide to cycle events and guided rides in the North East from April - October 2008.  It includes information on events that are being organised as part of Bike Week 2008 (14 - 22 June), one of the UK's biggest cycling events and there is also a chance to win a mountain bike!

Improvements in 2007

Gateshead Council continued its work to improve and enlarge the cycle network and ensure that cyclists cannot only cycle in Gateshead but cycle safely to and from the borough.

In 2007 some great new facilities helped increase the number of cycle trips that people made. These include:

  • A new Pegasus crossing costing £60,000, the first built in Gateshead, now provides a safe light-controlled crossing point across the busy A692 Watergate Park for walkers, cyclists and horse-riders using the popular Tanfield Railway Path. This largely off-road route attracts over 19,000 cycle trips every year.
  • A new link to Follingsby and Washington has been built between the Bowes Railway Path (Regional Route 11) and Follingsby Industrial Park. The new shared-use path also links the Gateshead Cycle Network to the Sunderland Cycle Network.
  • West Gateshead Cycleway, which has been fully signed to link with the Keelmans Way and Teams Cycleway.
  • A new signed and improved route has been created between the Keelmans Way (National Cycle Network NCN14) and the Bowes Railway Path (Regional Route 11(RR11).
  • An improved cycle route to the new Gateshead College site, which also provides cycle parking for the students.

This year (2008) the council intends to further develop the cycle network with improvements planned for:

  • Keelmans Way (National Cycle Network 14): Improvements to the path and signage of this important route.
  • Tanfield Railway Path: Continue work to improve the route as it links with the Bowes Railway Path (Regional Route 11).
  • Bowes Railway Path (Regional Route 11): Improve surfacing and signage to various sections of this route.
  • Team Valley: Improve cycle routes into this major area of employment.
  • Cycle Parking: The council will continue to improve and increase the amount of public cycle parking facilities.

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