Cancellation Clenchwarton Ride
Due to adverse weather, the ride to Clenchwarton on Sunday 4th March has been cancelled. It will be rescheduled.
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Notes from The Meet-up: Obstructions, Trails and Counts
The monthly second-Thursday meet-up took place last night at the Ferry Lane Social Club in King's Lynn. Discussions included removing obstructions, the proposed ex-railway trails and the need for BUG to do its own cyclist counts. A lot of campaigns were discussed, but don't worry - we also chatted about a lot of random other ...
Insurance
Third-Party Liability and Theft Insurance Suggestions: Your home insurance. Check your policy document, especially the public liability section to see if non-motoring incidents away from home are covered. Often this is restricted to the UK or similar, so travel insurance may be useful to cover other cycling. There's loads of discussion on the CTC/CUK Forum ...
Police Commissioner consults on next year's tax until 22 Dec
Norfolk's police commissioner is asking whether he should increase the police's part of the council tax, if the national government allows him to do so without holding an expensive full referendum. We've been encouraged by the use use of Operation Close Pass and the start of accepting bike camera footage on their website this year. ...
Operation Close Pass comes to East Anglia
Norfolk and Suffolk police have launched their Operation Close Pass, using unmarked police cyclists to identify drivers who don't give 1.5m (a bit over half a car's width) of space when overtaking. Any motorists identified are then stopped by uniformed traffic police and offered a choice between a ticket and an education session nearby if ...
DfT consultation on the next East Midlands Trains franchise
There is a DfT consultation on the next East Midlands Trains franchise that people may wish to respond to. Deadline for responses is 14th October. The following bits relevant to cycling in our area have been highlighted to me: The proposal to split the Liverpool - Ely - Norwich service into two is still in ...
Update on petition "Keep cars off National Cycle Route 1 in King's Lynn"
Dear Friends, If you have signed the petition after my last communication to supporters, firstly let me thank you. The reason this petition was started was that a previous one garnered on a community walk across Harding's Pits by County Councillor Alexandra Kemp was declined by the council ruling Conservative Group on the basis that ...
Harding's Way: Objection to 17/1008/F
Here's a copy of our objection to application 17/1008/F by the Borough Council of King's Lynn and West Norfolk to itself to move the bus gate north, remove the restrictions south of there and add three turnings off Harding's Way. It's a bit long but that's because the plan seems to contradict so many policies, ...
Save Hardings Way Walk/Ride 11am Sat 15 Jul 2017
Please share widely! Explanation from County Councillor Alex Kemp - "nearly all Borough Councillors at last Wednesday's Regeneration Panel spoke in favour of opening up Hardings Way to traffic, for the benefit of 436 flats they want on the Boal Quay. They ignored the objections of Whitefriars School I forwarded to them.This will ruin the ...
Harding's Way: How Can You Say 55% Support Something That 77% Oppose?
The borough council's Regeneration and Development Panel will receive a "final options report" at this evening's meeting (28 June 2017) which claims that "55% preferred Option 3" - this is clearly misleading, because the Public Consultation Report claimed support for the three options added up to 100% and we know there were people who opposed ...