This toolkit is a Ruby on Rails web application created to facilitate cycle campaigning.
The software has been developed to power the Cyclescape campaigning website, and you can help improve it or take the software and customise it for your own needs.
It is split into two main sections:
- Reporting a problem: a section open to anyone
- Managing and solving problems: for campaigners and groups
The toolkit aims to have the following outcomes:
- Fundamentally, increased resolution of problems on the street/path network and therefore an improved cycling environment
- Improved and better-organised working practices by local groups around the country through access to a new tool to help them manage the deluge of cycling problems that they get told about or wish to see resolved
- Increased reporting of network deficiencies, i.e. increased involvement of local people
- Increased awareness of problems faced by cyclists
- Improved working relationships between campaign groups and Local Authorities (a common problem)
- Increased ability for Local Authorities to justify central government investment
- Increased demonstration of partnership working between Local Authorities and local people
- Potentially, consolidation of existing web-based systems, reducing the need for groups to maintain custom-written and highly-specific systems.
The toolkit is being created by CycleStreets, who run the UK-wide cycle journey planner (at cyclestreets.net), run ‘for cyclists, by cyclists’. As well as the cycle journey planner, which has planned almost a million routes in the UK, the CycleStreets website includes a Photomap campaigning tool used by cyclists to report problems and good practice, by locating photographs on a map.
We use Github for managing development, you can clone the repository, or report bugs there.
Pull requests are very welcome! Additional developer notes are available on the github wiki.