ATV Today: 22.11.1973: Nottingham Cycle City

Summary

Reg Harcourt report about new traffic measures in Nottingham which include a six month experiment in allowing cyclists to use pedestrian streets in the city.

Year:

1973

Duration:

0:06:11

Film type:

Colour / Sound

Company:

ATV

Master format:

16mm

Description

Establishing shot of Nottingham Council House and views of traffic (including a free bus for shoppers) and road signs in the city. Library pictures of Alderman Eric Foster riding a bicycle in the city on 22 January 1973. Reg Harcourt vox pops with people about cyclists sharing the pedestrianised streets. Interview with Eric Foster about the traffic experiments and also with a transport committee spokesman from Nottingham City Council and Nottingham City Engineer Eric Gill. Views of bicycles being loaded into a lorry at the Raleigh factory in Nottingham which has seen an increase in sales since the petrol crisis. The firm manufactures seventy percent of bikes sold in the UK. Interview with a Raleigh spokesman.


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