Cycling UK's campaigns team has produced an online kit that helps you draft letters to your local council, asking it to create more cycling and walking space on the roads during the Covid-19 restrictions. https://action.cyclinguk.org/page/59646/action/1?ea.tracking.id=klwnbug One advantage of using the kit is that it fills in details of the laws and regulations that enable local ...
Following discussion at this month's meeting, KLWNBUG broadly welcomes the proposed inclusion of the following cycling measures in the King's Lynn Transport Strategy: Tennyson Avenue pedestrian & cycle improvements (but see below about dismissing the bridge idea) Historic quayside cycle route Way-finding & signage provision (we call on the councils to adopt the local route ...
Matt Hayward of Norfolk County Council, the Lead Project Officer for the Greenways in our corner of Norfolk, has kindly agreed to come and meet with West Norfolk Cycling UK (CTC) and give a presentation at The Anvil in Congham on Wednesday, 1st May 2019. The presentation will start at 7:30pm. Non members welcome to attend.
Norfolk County Council is holding a series of consultation events on their plans for Rail Trails including the former railway routes from Lynn to Hunstanton and Fakenham. These are critical for cycling in West Norfolk and offer chances to improve the connections to the north and create a first good connection to the east. Events ...
As mentioned in the previous post about the Bawsey Bumps, "we would really really like" an alternative to the B1145 Bawsey Bumps which is currently the most-used route for cycling east. It's horrible but the alternatives are even worse, involving a very long detour such as 35 miles south to Brandon or mixing it with ...
In Norfolk County Council's Cycling and Walking Strategy (previously the Cycling and Walking Action Plan - CWAP), there's a map of the King's Lynn Cycling Network as well as the long-distance route map mentioned in "Bawsey Bumps and the CWAP Map". Here's the King's Lynn Cycling Network: Looks good, doesn't it? Look closer. Look, for ...
Two years ago, Norfolk County Council consulted on its Cycling and Walking Action Plan. Among the plan's pages, there was this encouraging map: At long last, King's Lynn would get a decent cycle route to the east, offering a more direct official route to Norwich - although still indirect because NCC don't recognise/improve any obvious ...
We will put candidate details on our website as supporters tell us what their candidates say about cycling, but until then, you can find candidate lists on Wikipedia: Norfolk Lincolnshire Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire and Peterborough Mayor
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 ...
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 ...