Help shape Bristol's future cycling network

Bristol City Council needs your help to define the strategic cycle network and help to identify the priorities for investment over the next twenty years.

All of our existing road network (with the exception of the M32) is important for cycling but we need define what roads and paths are more important to you for your everyday journeys in order to:

• Inform future investment in cycling
• Maximise benefits through planning activities, other transport projects and neighbourhood initiatives

To date Bristol City Council has invested in the radial route network - the routes in and out of the city centre. We now need to define other key routes that link the many destinations around the city.

A new cycle network tool has been added to BristolStreets.co.uk.

Through this online mapping facility we have defined the main journey attractors around the city (such as local centres, stations, workplaces and schools). We have then joined these centres up into a spider web of possible links.

For each of these links we are seeking to define the best route possible and get an idea of what improvements need to be made. This is where we need your help and local knowledge.

We need you to identify where improvements need to be made on the ground. The tool lets you draw new routes, leave notes and comments and allows for discussion similar to a social network.

This website will be taking comments until 31 March 2012. We will then use the information you provide to define the cycle network.

We will then be able to identify and prioritise the works that are needed over the next twenty years.

For more information, contact betterbybike@bristol.gov.uk