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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
So you should have your polling cards for the vote for your borough council (or district council if outside West Norfolk) elections. Please, I'm asking you to consider cycling when deciding who to vote for. Borough/district councils aren't responsible for the headline-grabbing things of building or maintaining major cycle routes or roads, but they are ...
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 ...
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 ...
One morning in October 2016, Darren Orpwood died after being hit by a white van while cycling towards Lynn over the B1145 Bawsey Bumps. On Friday, its driver Sam McDonald was convicted of causing death by dangerous driving following a trial at Norwich Crown Court. Sentencing will be on 20 July but the judge has ...
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 ...