Why Hull?
ull was chosen because it is a high-cycling city that is often overlooked. People not from Hull don’t necessarily associate it with cycling. Yet Hull was known during the inter-war period as the UK’s “Cycling City” with large numbers of bike shops. It still has high cycling levels comparable to those of York.
Hull has an interesting policy history – in the mid 90s onwards it implemented traffic calming measures including many 20mph zones. During this period the Hull Cycling Campaign (HCC) lobbied for measures to support cycling.
Cycling in Hull is a varied experience – ranging from 20mph streets to busy A routes (with different types of cycling infrastructure), and including shared space routes along the drains or former railway paths. Hull has a range of cycling-related clubs including the Tandem Club formed in the 1950s.
September 2nd, 2012 at 01:10
This the worst city I have every cycled in! Hardly anyone uses a bike on the roads because the cars and buses drive so dangerously for cyclists. All I ever get from drivers is abuse and bus drivers are actively hostile toward cycles in their driving, deliberately cutting in front of you. The roads are littered with potholes and sunken drains and cycle paths are either those discontinuous green lanes that drivers ignore and drive over, or else follow disused routes – disused because no-one goes that way anymore. Other cyclists don’t help because so many of them ride on the pavements Anyone who thinks this is a good cycling city is simply very inexperienced and downright foolish. And i haven’t given my name because I know how vindictive this nasty little place is.