News and Features from Cycle Heaven, York

Bishy Road Street Party Success!

This was the place to be on the evening of Thursday 1st of July and you would have have done well to leave your car at home, for this was the occasion of Bishy Road's first ever street party. The road was closed and reclaimed for human life instead of 30mph one ton metal boxes.

The shops stayed open late, there were stalls, street performers, music, including a brass band and it seemed like the whole community turned out. It is reckoned that 2000 people packed the area of our shopping parade and people have been raving about this night to us ever since, so we intend to make this an annual event. A big thank you to all the other retailers and to the volunteers who helped make this such a special event.

Extra special thanks to Richard Lane and Randall Ghent, organisers of Towards Car Free Cities IX and all the marshalls - drawn largely from the ranks of York Friends of the Earth. What a night!