Cycleway Closures August 2024 King's Lynn

The following cycleways will be temporarily closed for repairs or improvements:6-19 August: Fairstead: Shepherds Way (Five Elms to Winston Churchill Drive), Viking Way (Shepherds Way to Fen Lane near Hall View Road garages)11-15 August: Springwood/Reffley: Spring Lane (Gayton Road to Earsham Drive)15-19 August: Gaywood/Hardwick: Iron Bridge, Bridge Way to Parkway, Rookery Way (the diagonal path)20-22 ...

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QEH Area Changes Consultation

Norfolk County Council is consulting on changes to Gayton Road in the QEH area. The survey closes Friday. Here's the summary diagram: What can you see? Here's my list so far: Anti-skid road surface should be yellow (like at Hardwick) not red (which is for cycleways like the Blackfriars St one used to be); the ...

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Active Travel Round 4 Awards

Norfolk is getting £2¼m for cycling and walking projects. Well done to the county council bid team! The Eastern Daily Press lists three projects in West Norfolk: Upgraded junction of NCN1 and A1078 Edward Benefer Way: this project is shown in the current King's Lynn Local Cycling and Walking Implementation Plan, the LCWIP, but it's ...

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January 2023 Consultations

See you at Ferry Lane 7.30 for 8pm this evening, as usual (second Thursday of each month). New Consultations Not much this month. I didn't notice any new major planning applications or anything seriously affecting cycle routes, nor are there any traffic regulation orders proposed in western Norfolk. So, the biggest consultation is the Pilot ...

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December 2022 Consultations

New Development Plans The new A10 West Winch Access Road - not a bypass because none of the proposed measures (such as 20/30mph limits and little fences) close the current A10 to through traffic, or seem likely to achieve the claimed reduction in motor vehicles. The good news is that the new road will have ...

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November 2022 Consultations

New Development Plans Also, 20mph proposals for South Wootton, Leonard Close & Sandbach Close, 30mph for North & South Creake (to become 30mph through South Creake and 50mph between/around them, currently 40/60), 40mph for Terrington St John, Church Road (to the A47 junctions, currently 60mph through them) and 40mph for Market Lane in Walpole, Walpole Cross Keys ...

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Treat the Southgates: No Trick!

Please, this halloween, let's give the Southgates the treat of approving a better plan for walking and cycling around it. Before the end of 31 October, please go to the Borough Council website, scroll down until you find the "Southgates Masterplan Survey", then scroll down and open the exhibition boards (or the detailed plan if ...

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SOS: Cycle Parking Crisis

SOS: Save Our Spaces! Please go to https://www.visionkingslynn.co.uk/projects/rail-to-river/ before the end of Sunday 13 February 2022 and ask for the Purfleet Cycle Parking to either stay where it is or be moved closer to the shops, not further away. Come along to our regular second-Thursday meeting tonight (10th) at 7.45pm at the Rathskeller, Hanse House, ...

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