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Speakers at Cycle City Active City...Shown in the order they confirmed... |
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Cllr Andrew Montague
Former Lord Mayor
Dublin City Council
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Prof. Kevin Fenton
National Director of Health and Wellbeing
Public Health England
Kevin Fenton joined Public Health England (PHE) on 12 November 2012.
His role includes design and delivery of national health and wellbeing programmes delivered through and by the NHS and local authorities, development and delivery of national health marketing campaigns including Change4Life and Stoptober and coordinating prevention and early intervention programmes delivered across the lifespan, focused on major killers including smoking, obesity, mental health, HIV, and alcohol and drugs
He has held executive positions at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Health Protection Agency, has over 20 years’ experience in public health medicine, infectious disease epidemiology, HIV prevention and sexual health and is Visiting Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health at University College London with research interests in HIV/STI prevention, sexual behaviour, health inequalities, and migration and health.
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Lilli Matson
Head of Delivery Planning, Surface Planning
Transport for London
As Transport for London’s Head of Delivery Planning, I lead TfL’s strategy and planning of surface transport priorities and projects – with a focus on managing freight and transport demand, planning for bus priority across London, promoting walking, cycling, accessible public transport and improving road safety. I have worked with TfL since 2006.
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Carlton Reid
Author Bike Boom and Executive Editor
Bike Biz
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Eugene Milne
Director of Public Health
Newcastle
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John Dales
Director
Urban Movement
John is a traffic engineer, transport planner and urban designer with 30 years’ professional experience that spans from strategic transport planning to concept design. Well known as a champion of better town and city streets, he was Director for Urban Initiatives’ before founding Urban Movement. John is an urban realm design advisor to several UK local authorities. He is a Trustee of Living Streets, was a contributing author to Manual for Streets 2, and is a former Board member of the Transport Planning Society. He’s been author of a monthly article in Local Transport Today on ‘Transport in Urban Design’ since 2005.
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Joe Irvin
Cheif Executive
Living Streets
Joe is chief executive of Living Streets, the charity that campaigns for pedestrians, walking and ‘walkable’ places. Joe has experience of working at senior level in the voluntary, public and private sectors. He was previously chief executive of NAVCA, and has worked in the Prime Minister’s office at No 10 Downing Street and as special adviser to the Deputy Prime Minister. Joe served as director of policy at the Transport and General Workers Union, as the RSPB’s director of parliamentary affairs and director of public affairs at BAA. Joe’s community activity has ranged from serving as a school governor to setting up a centre for unemployed people and in voluntary roles in areas such as child poverty, mental health and aiding ex-offenders into work.
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Helen Ramsden
Head of Travel Choices and Active Travel
Transport for Greater Manchester
Helen Ramsden has responsibility for leading Greater Manchester’s ambitious Travel Choices agenda, which includes managing the delivery of the Travel Choices and Commuter Cycle programmes, both funded by LSTF. Previously, Helen has led on a number of award-winning sustainable transport and behaviour change programmes, playing a significant role in delivering the London2012 Travel Demand Management programme.
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Karen Stevens
Cycling Officer
Liverpool City Council
Karen is Liverpool City Council’s Cycling Officer, where she has project managed cycling schemes through LSTF, Cycle Safety Fund, ERDF and the capital programme, as well as working on cycling promotion and transport policy. With over 10 years of sustainable transport experience, she previously worked in Merseyside’s TravelWise Team on campaigns and supporting organisations with travel plan delivery.
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Ian Richardson
Head of Development,
CTC
Using cycling to address social, economic and health inequalities, behaviour change programmes and interventions.
Specialist focus on Sustainable Travel, Workplaces and Leisure & Tourism
Partnering with local authorities, Forestry Commission, third sector organisations and cycling professionals.
Delivering personalised engagement, capacity building and sustainability through a dedicated team of cycling development officers.
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Kerston England
Chief Executive
City of York Council
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Nathan Kaczmarksi
Senior Communications Officer
Cycling Scotland
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Michelle Haste
Wellbeing Manager
Gentoo Housing Association
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Geoff Vigar
Newcastle University
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Rachel Aldred
Senior Lecturer
Westminster University
Dr. Rachel Aldred is a Senior Lecturer in Transport at the University of Westminster and leads the Westminster MSc in Transport Planning and Management. Much of her research focuses on cycling and she has carried out research projects funded by organisations including the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. Commissioned research has included work for British Cycling, the World Health Organisation and Transport for London. Rachel has published widely on cycling, in journals including Transport Reviews, Journal of Transport Geography, and Sociology. Current research includes work on cycling and diversity, infrastructure design for child cycling and cycling near misses. Her personal website iswww.rachelaldred.org
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Jill Hopkirk
Founder
Newcastle Cycle Hub
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Isabelle Clement
Director
Wheels for Wellbeing
Isabelle Clement is the Director of Wheels for Wellbeing, a charity which fights for cycling equality for disabled people. They support disabled people to access cycling in South London. Herself an urban handcyclist, Isabelle leads the Inclusive Cycling Forum for London, which campaigns for cycling infrastructure that is fully inclusive.
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Roger Geffen
Campaigns Director
CTC
Originally from a cycle campaigning background, Roger Geffen has gained experience of working both in the local authority and consultancy sectors, before returning to cycle campaigning work at CTC, the UK's national cycling charity.
His first involvement in cycling was as a volunteer campaigner with the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) in the late 1980’s. He went on to take active roles in various transport and environment groups including the UK's anti-road movement of the early 1990’s. With the shift in national transport policy in the mid-1990’s, he took a masters in Transport at the University of London and began working for Oxfordshire County Council, drafting its Walking and Cycling Strategies and a large part of its Local Transport Plan. After a spell working with consultants Steer Davies Gleave spent working on various walking, cycling, public transport and policy analysis projects, he joined CTC as Campaigns & Policy Manager (now Director) in 2002.
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Ronan Carter
Commercial Director
YOMP
Yomp (previously PleaseCycle) engage the employees of large corporates such as Bloomberg & EDF Energy, and have been taken global by Aegis, a media company. By using 'gamification' delivered through award-winning leading-edge technology, we engage employees through health & wellness, whilst also quantifying the CSR benefits this brings. Ronan has ongoing responsibility for all Sales, Marketing, Finances & Operations. With the CEO, he secured an investment round which has allowed the award-winning company company to invest heavily into future growth. Ronan successfully applied for and received UK and EU Government funding to expand globally. He built and leads the rapidly growing team (now 8-strong) to manage accounts and implement international expansion.
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Victoria Pinoncely
Research Officer
RTPI
Victoria is Research Officer at the Royal Town Planning Institute. She is author of the RTPI Promoting Healthy Cities report which outlined the impact of the built environment on health and wellbeing, including how cycling conditions can improve people’s health by increasing physical activity and community cohesion. Previously she worked as planning consultant for AECOM/URS and as researcher on cities, health and wellbeing at LSE Cities, a research centre at the London School of Economics. @vpinoncely
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Dr Michael Crilly
Studio UrbanArea Newcastle
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Robert Huxford
Director
Urban Design Group
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Craig Blundred
Public Health Consultant, Newcastle
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Conrad Haigh
Head of Integrated Transport
ATOC
Conrad is ATOC’s Head of Integrated Transport, responsible for station access including cycling, walking, Station Travel Plans, PLUSBUS and Electric Vehicles. He has more than 15 years’ experience in sustainable transport, he was Director of Smarter Travel at MVA Consultancy, led Workplace Travel Plans Team at TfL and has significant experience in cycling working at the CTC for four years.
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James Woodcock
CEDAR
Cambridge University
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Dr Adrian Davis
Public Health and Transport Consultant
Adrian’s work over 30 years has focused on the health impacts of road transport. Author of the BMA’s first Transport Policy report in 1997, and adviser WHO and UK organisations including Dept Transport, Adrian is an Editor of the Journal of Transport and Health, and Visiting Professor at the University of the West of England.
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Helen Webster
Consultant
AECOM
Helen is a Senior Consultant at AECOM and has 6 years experience in transport planning with particular expertise in transport policy and strategy development, business case writing and influencing behavioural change.
Helen has had a key role in preparing a number of successful funding bids, including the West Yorkshire Cycle City Ambition Grant and the South Yorkshire Local Sustainable Transport Fund business case.
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Jane Hackett
National Manager, An Taisce
Green-Schools
Jane is a sustainability professional who has worked in the field of environmental education and sustainability for almost 15 years. Her expertise lies in educating for behavioural change in relation to school travel. Jane has been managing a national schools travel programme (Green-Schools Travel) in Ireland which was launched in 2008. Prior to that she was involved in developing the schools travel pilot project, which went on to be awarded national funding from the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport. The programme is part of an international environmental education programme known as Green-Schools (Eco-Schools) which is operated by the Foundation for Environmental Education and in Ireland by An Taisce – The National Trust for Ireland. Jane also oversees a number of school travel projects which are part of the Smarter Travel Area Projects in towns and cities in Ireland. She sits on the national steering committee for the development of the national cycling standard and was a member of the national Bike Week committee during its inception.
Jane also manages thirty staff on the Green-Schools Travel Programme across Ireland, organizes national events and has been a Master of Ceremonies at national award ceremonies. She is an experienced advocate for sustainable transport options and has appeared in the national media in this regard.
Jane has an MSc in Sustainable Development and a BA (Hons) in Geography and Sociology from Trinity College, Dublin. She has previously worked as a Town Planner and Sustainable Development Consultant with a transport planning consultancy as well as an independent environmental consultant in New Zealand and Ireland.
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Pete Z
Cycling Consultant
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Alison Kennedy
Sustainable Travel Officer (Cycling and Walking)
CENTRO
Alison Kennedy is a Sustainable Travel Officer in Centro’s Cycling and Walking team. Alison has over 20 years’ experience in sustainable transport planning and a particular passion for cycling. Previous roles include Infrastructure Manager (Cycle Shrewsbury) at Shropshire Council and Transport Planner at Allott and Lomax Consulting Engineers.
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Rob Grisdale
Founder of Scratch Bikes, now MD nextbike UK
nextbike UK
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Richard Falconer
Director
Co-wheels
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Patrick Lingwood
Senior Walking and Cycling Officer
Bedford Borough Council
My career includes Cycle Policy Advisor at DfT, where I managed the Cycle City and Towns programme, South East Regional Cycling Co-ordinator, Oxford Brookes University Transport Researcher, NICE public health guidance group member, writing LTN 2/08 roundabout chapter, preparing successful Leighton-Linslade Cycle Town bid and managing LSTF programme at Bedford.
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Eoin O'Mahony
Associate Director
AECOM
Eoin O’Mahony is a Chartered Engineer with AECOM. His areas of expertise include the design of cycling schemes, development of cycle networks, and research into the understanding of the critical success factors for cycling infrastructure. His cycling design experience covers local junction improvements to national cycle network schemes of 280km in length.
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Christopher Allan
Consultant, Transportation
AECOM
Chris Allan has been studying and working in transport for over 7 years, with particular interest in sustainable distribution and transport modes and their role in promoting liveability, health and improving urban space. He cycles daily on a massive Pashley in his normal clothes and wants everyone else to be able to, too.
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Rachel Seymour
Go Cycling Manager
West Yorkshire Combined Authority
The go:cycling project supports adults and over 16’s who live, work and study in West Yorkshire with learning to ride a bike and improving their skills through cycle training. We also support people with learning basic bike maintenance to keep them riding independently. We encourage cycling, and particularly uptake by new cyclists, through a combination of cycle training, cycling events, support literature, workplace events, and route planning for cyclists.
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Vanessa Kelly
Cycling Projects Team
Cambridgeshire County Council
Since 2013 I ‘ve worked as a member of the Cycling Projects team at Cambs County Council, mainly helping to deliver the Cycle City Ambition schemes within Cambridge. Prior to this, I worked on two PTP projects, managed three Workplace Cycle Challenges, and was a committee member of the Cambridge Cycling Campaign.
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Simon Telford
Senior Consultant
AECOM
Simon is a Senior Consultant based in AECOM’s Manchester office with a background in strategy and policy and particular experience of promoting active travel. Simon is currently supporting TfGM with the delivery of the Cycle City Ambition Grant Programme. This role has included managing the delivery of the innovative Partner Schools Programme which is targeting increased levels of cycling at 11 schools and colleges in Greater Manchester.
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Councillor Lisa Trickett
Cabinet Member for Sustainability
Birmingham City Council
Councillor Lisa Trickett was elected as a Labour Councillor in 2012 to Moseley and Kings Heath Ward, a diverse neighbourhood within Birmingham. Lisa took on the role of Chair of the City’s Districts and Public Engagement Overview and Scrutiny Committee which provided policy overview and scrutiny to the City’s Devolution agenda. Lisa is the Chair of the City’s Cycling Forum, the umbrella body that has helped shape the Birmingham Cycling Revolution. Since June of 2014, she has held the Cabinet portfolio for a Smart, Green and Sustainable City which combines lead responsibility for key strategic agendas to position Birmingham as a technologically ‘Smart City’, ‘Entrepreneurial City’ and a ‘Green City’.
She provides strategic leadership of the city’s green environmental agenda including issues around sustainability, climate change, carbon reduction, energy security, food security and green planning and transportation policies. Promoting the development of world class technological capability and connectivity in Birmingham, including mobile 4G, superfast broadband connectivity and extending the use of intelligent transport systems and digital technologies for “open access” to support “green and smart” actions. She oversees the management of the city centre and has a strategic overview of parks as well as the lead member for the cycling revolution.
Having worked in the public policy sphere for the last two decades Lisa has gained recognition and published work on Leadership of Place and has engaged nationally and internationally on the place shaping agenda.
Cllr Trickett serves on the following bodies: Birmingham Science Park Aston Ltd, Birmingham Technology (Venture Capital), Birmingham Technology (Property) Ltd, Birmingham Technology (Property One), City Centre Partnership Board, Cycling Advisory Group 3, Governor - Uffculme School for special needs and Chairs the Walking Group. She also Chair’s the City’s Green Commission and the Smart Commission.
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Steven Chown
Programme Development Manager
Play England
Steven Chown is the Programme Development Manager for Play England. He has managed a number of community play programmes including the current Street Play project funded by the Department of Health, supporting local residents to close their street so children can play free from traffic.Play England is a national charity that campaigns for the freedom and space for children to play throughout childhood.
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David Murray
Communications Manager
CTC, the national cycling charity
David Murray is Communications Manager at CTC, the national cycling charity. He is former CEO of the Green Party and Cricket Without Boundaries. David was Campaigns Manager at the Ramblers, and Policy Officer with the Campaign for National Parks. He holds an M.Sc. in Environmental Conservation Management.
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Amy Boyle
Director of Strategy
Diva Creative
Amy Boyle is the Director of Strategy for Diva Creative and has been with the company for five years. She specialises in developing and delivering social marketing behaviour change programmes. Amy excels in applying social cognitive theories to understand behavioural problems across a range of issues to instigate effective strategic solutions that directly change behaviours.
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John Carrigan
Active Travel And Strategy Manager
Birmingham City Council
Big Birmingham Bikes is part of the Birmingham Cycle Revolution, delivering approximately 5000 free bicycles to Birmingham residents. 22 cycle centres have been established to offer free loan bicycles, cycle training, led rides and bicycle maintenance training focusing on Birmingham’s most deprived communities. Outcomes include increase in cycle journeys, improved peoples mobility, health and wellbeing, access to workplaces, less road congestion, a better environment, increased integration with the existing cycling network, GPS tracking of bikes.
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Hannah White
Freight & Fleet Project Manager
Transport for London
Hannah White is a Project Manager at Transport for London, responsible for commercial vehicle and freight-related safety projects. She has over seven years experience in planning and delivering a wide range of transport policies, programmes, and projects in the Capital. She currently manages the Construction Logistics and Cyclist Safety (CLOCS) project embedding common standards for managing work-related road risk across the construction sector and TfL’s Safer Trucks programme to improve the design of Heavy Goods Vehicles. Prior to this role, Hannah worked as a Principal Transport Planner responsible for cycling and land use planning issues, including development of business cases to secure substantial investment for cycling and cycle safety schemes in London.
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Jennifer Wiles
Regional Director (North East & Yorkshire)
Living Streets
Jennifer is the Regional Director (North East and Yorkshire), for national charity Living Streets. She leads a team to deliver projects in schools, workplaces and communities that promote walking and create environments where it’s good to walk. Jennifer engages with key partners and stakeholders across the region to influence policy and develop projects.
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Livio Martelli
Highways Engineer - Team Leader
Skanska
Livio Martelli is a Chartered Civil Engineer and Highways Team Leader for Skanska with a wide expertise in infrastructure design. Livio recently lead the design of two high-profile cycleway schemes in Cambridge where his responsibilities involved the research and development of innovative infrastructure solutions for this active and vibrant cycle-friendly city.
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Kate Gifford
Assistant Director
Carplus
Kate Gifford is a Chartered Town Planner with eleven years’ experience in the transport planning industry. She is an Assistant Director at Carplus, leading the Developing Car Clubs in England programme and the evaluation and monitoring of this and other programmes (including the shared electric bike (EAPC) programme), and also the development and delivery of the Carplus Annual Survey of Car Clubs.
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Sarah Speirs
Wokingham Borough Council LSTF Communications Manager
WSP | Parsons Brinckerhoff
Sarah leads WSP|PB’s Consultation team and has over fifteen years’ experience in stakeholder engagement, consultation and market research. She uses wide-ranging techniques to engage and communicate with the full range of stakeholders and inform the development of transport strategies and schemes. For the last three years, Sarah has led the communications workstream of Wokingham Borough Council’s LSTF programme; My Journey Wokingham.
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Ben Webster
Design, Conservation and Landscape Manager
Norwich City Council
Ben Webster is the Design, Conservation and Landscape Manager at Norwich City Council. He has been leading streetscape design projects for cyclists, pedestrians and the beauty of the Norwich for 10 years. Before this he worked to tame Nottingham’s inner ring road and campaigned for good design at the Civic Trust.
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Sam Robinson
General Manager
Love to Ride
Sam joined the team at Love to Ride (Challenge for Change) in early 2011, initially managing UK business development and LSTF-funded projects across England. As a Bristol-based micro social enterprise, Love to Ride continue to lead the way in the UK, with their unique behaviour change programmes proven to get more people cycling, more often. Having delivered 130 behaviour change programmes with 60 Local Authority partners – they have helped more than 37,000 new-riders into the saddle and embarking on their personal journey of change. Their flagship programme in the UK is the National Cycle Challenge, which has seen excellent take up in year one with more than 1,500 organisations participating.
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Richard Eason
Communications & Engagement Officer
Enfield Council
Following a career in the Armed Forces, Richard now works in a range of roles encouraging cycling. He is passionate about the idea that bicycles can help create happier places to live, but understands that this might not be immediately obvious to everyone.
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Rachel Clarke
My Place Project
Newcastle University
Rachel Clarke is post-doctoral researcher in participatory design for community-based technology at Open Labs, Newcastle University. Rachel trained as a visual artist and moved into socially engaged and community based design, working as a freelance practitioner for over a decade. Her focus is on experience-centred design approaches for media-sharing within communities. As part of the MyPlace project team, she is working on the development of the digital toolkit and platform with an emphasis on intergenerational opportunities for community place-making, exchange and learning through creative technology use.
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Yatwan Hui
Director
Urban Beings
Yat is an urban designer who loves to find fun ways to learn about the city, such as creating Toddle in the City - a treasure hunt with a camera for toddlers and families to nurture a love for the city. She also works in strategic urban planning in London.
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Ben Robinson
Scheme Development Manager
Bristol City Council
Ben is the Scheme Development manager at Bristol City Council and leads on the development, funding and monitoring of transport schemes. The team has secured around £500m worth of investment for the next 5-10 years including Bus Rapid Transport, heavy rail and building on our reputation as a cycling city.
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