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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
What has happened? The number of cyclists being killed or seriously injured on Norfolk’s roads has risen, prompting the county’s Police and Crime Commissioner to call for a campaign to get more children to wear cycle helmets (EDP). What's wrong with that? Any increase in cycling casualties is bad, but Commissioner Green's campaign won't reduce ...
I've just left the workshop starting work on the campaign to get more pro-cycling councillors elected in next year's elections. I had to choose one workshop from policy, communications and technology, so trusting that the CycleNation team will do technology well and having checked there were other rural voices in the policy one, I went ...
It seems like just two weeks ago that the 2016 elections took place and yet, work starts in Leicester this weekend on the national space4cycling campaign for the 2017 county council elections. space4cycling is one of BUG's current campaigns, calling for useful routes to be opened to cycling or made easier, whether by reducing motorist ...
The fens have just started getting snow and sadly, our councils are not as cool as Copenhagen's snow-clearing yet: Riding through fresh snow is surprisingly grippy but it often doesn't last long before some of it gets compacted into ice by other road users. It can also hide debris - one of my best bike ...
I've put in an objection to yet another set of plans where a developer has thoughtlessly put a cycle track across a T junction in a way that has contributed to many injuries and even a few deaths across the country. West Norfolk is littered with this failed layout, so I want to explain how ...
It's that time of year again: students are going to university, many are looking to buy bikes and bike thieves are looking for ways to make easy money. Don't let them take your bike easily - #ProperLockIt, as shown in this video from our friends in Cambridge.