What is the Missing Links project?

The original blog post

It started in 2012 as a series of blog posts.

Over time Cycling Dumfries members expanded the series to became a comprehensive collection of recommendations for closing the gaps in the cycling infrastructure of Dumfries.

An example page of the Missing Links book

It evolved into a community funded book

Cycling Dumfries raised nearly £2000 from the community to publish the recommendations as a book that was presented to 200 key decision makers in town.

Screenshot of a map on the Missing Links website

Now it's a website

We show each of the gaps, how closing them creates a more extensive network and make progress made when gaps are closed.

A photo of a cyclist enjoying high quality cycle paths in an urban environment, passing by a railway station.

A means of envisaging your better active travel network

We want to normalise the expectation of safe active travel routes and show people what they are missing out on.

A people cycling in a large group.

A campaign tool to grow support and monitor progress

We score progress and regularly monitor each of the routes to ....

Missing Links is an initiative of Cycling Dumfries.

Website by Gilbert West as a pro bono project.

All text content, photographs and videos on the Missing Links website is available under a Creative Commons attribution license.

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