Zone opened to residents on Car-Free Day:
Our event will take place on Saturday 19 September in the Hockley/Broad Street area of Nottingham City Centre.
What will be happening on 19th September?
A car free day and space in Nottingham City Centre in Hockley’s Creative Quarter, on Broad Street & Goosegate where people can come and find out more about choosing, changing and combining the right travel options for a quicker and more pleasant journey.
The car-free Hockley Street Fayre will provide a fun-packed day of free entertainment between 10AM-5PM including pedal powered smoothie bikes, live music, street entertainment, guided walks, traditional lawn games on our artificial lawn, Dr Bike, rickshaw rides, information stalls, transport advice surgery, pedal powered games, poetry workshop, craft activities. There will also be a free VIP film screening of Wall-E, Disney Pixar’s animation set in the distant future, provoking thought on how we look after the plane at independent cinema Screen 22 on Broad Street.
Visitors to the festival will receive a ‘Nottingham Passport’, if they visit all the attractions on the day they'll be rewarded with a jump in The Big Wheel’s prize pit where they can win theatre tickets, meal vouchers, free travel passes or cycling and walking accessories.
The event will be supported/attended by the local partners providing the following services and activities:
• Big Wheel providing a travel surgery along with support for all journey planning including , route finding, advice about on-street infrastructure (such as cycle parking), ticket options, multimodal journeys and options for local travel. and craft activities encouraging people to think about the travel modes for environmental and air quality reasons.
• The TravelRight project will be providing information including about their Job Seeker offer. There will be maps available for cycling and walking across the whole of Greater Nottingham. The Big Wheel will be providing a drop-off point for people who would like to donate their old bikes to RideWise bike recycling/refurbishing projects. The bikes will be dropped off at the Big Wheel stall and will be stored throughout the day on display at the event.
• Sustrans providing advice about the community travel hubs as well as providing a Dr Bike, recycled bike craft activities and information on community transport hubs and further education support.
• Ridewise providing advice about cycle journey planning, RideWise services, general advice for cyclists - including queries around cycling on tram lines - as well as a Dr Bike and bike maintenance demonstrations, to promote bike maintenance classes. There will be a stall to promote cycle training and cycle centres.
• Playworks (Play streets project) will be talking to the public about reclaiming street space and using open spaces for play. They will be encouraging communities and individuals to get involved to extend the benefits of the EMW beyond the week itself.
• Batribike Electric Bikes providing promotion and demonstration of range of electric bikes - including those within the cycle to work scheme budget. As part of this they will encourage participation in the Cycle to Work scheme.
• City Arts Young Producers project - these are young people who have previously been unemployed. They will be holding a craft workshops encouraging people to think about how they can improve and enjoy their journeys.
• Nottingham City Transport will be bringing along a solo midi bus for the public to access and will be providing a range of information about routes, route planning and ticketing options. They will also be promoting the launch of their wifi fleet.
The following integrated travel services will also be promoted
• City Cycle Ambition cycle infrastructure investment programme and plans
• Citycard Cycles - two bikes will be present along and scheme membership information
• City Car Club – there will be a car club car , along with leaflets and car club members who can explain how to join the scheme, how the scheme works and demonstrate ease of access to the vehicles.
• Kevin and Ellie public transport children’s book giveaways with Kangaroo Mascot
• Nottingham Express Transit tram information to promote the extended service which opened last month
• Nottinghamshare carshare scheme information
• Cycling for All accessible cycling Sundays