Deadline Day: KL Transport Strategy
If you have time today, please respond to the King's Lynn Transport Strategy consultation. In case it helps, here are my answers: and for the rest, answer as you like! Thank you!
Category Archives: Campaigns
Vote Bike on 4th May 2023!
Borough and district council elections are next Thursday and we would love to see more cycling-friendly councillors elected. While the county councils and mayors are mainly responsible for transport, the boroughs and districts control the planning permission process (including whether new estates are walking/cycling-friendly or car-dominated), regeneration projects and lots of other things which can ...
May Updates
Change of venue for the social and consultation meeting to Ferry Lane Social Club in Ferry Lane off King Street, King's Lynn for Thursday 12 May. 7.45pm start. Ring the bell! Times have been confirmed for Sunday 29 May for the London Free Cycle: trains leave King's Lynn 0825 arriving London 1011 and hourly thereafter ...
Act Now: Transport Consultation
Norfolk County Council is consulting on transport plans, including which places you want to cycle between. The consultation is open only until TOMORROW (2 May), so please tell them your views on the plan at https://orlo.uk/HSpCW
Updated Highway Code
On 29 January 2022, a new edition of the Highway Code was published online. Most of the changes are clarifications to existing rules, such as the instruction for drivers turning to let people cross side roads, or minor updates to make the code match national training standards, such as the new parts on riding centrally ...
Do you know someone who could be a School Streets Officer?
Norfolk County Council are working in partnership with Sustrans to deliver a School Streets pilot over the next 12 months and the officer role is currently being recruited. Please share https://www.sustrans.org.uk/job-vacancies/schools-streets-officer/
Vote Bike 2021
On 6 May 2021, you can vote in local and regional elections. Please Vote Bike. And if you have had any leaflets from candidates, please contact them to ask if they support cycling. Here are some suggested questions for county council candidates (if you're not near King's Lynn, change the town name!): Will you support ...
Response to the King's Lynn Local Cycling and Walking Implementation Plan 2021
This was sent a while ago and is belatedly published here for information: KLWNBUG The Norfolk and Fens Cycling Campaign welcomes the first presentation of the King's Lynn Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP) and awaits more detail with interest. The LCWIP is about making King's Lynn a better place for everyone, so we ...
Closes Sun 14 March: NCR1 / Gaywood Road Crossing
There is a consultation currently running about proposed changes to where National Cycle Route 1 Sandringham Railway Path crosses Gaywood Road near Strikes and KES until Sunday 14th March. Here is an excerpt of the proposed design: Initial comments from this month's online meeting were that: we welcome the possible increased capacity from a wider ...
Norfolk Local Transport Plan Consultation
Local Transport Plans set some basic principles, aims and methods for how local government will manage our transport network. As well as informing the county council's highways department, it also affects the borough council's planning decisions. It comes up for review about once a decade and is a really big chance for progress for active ...