Category: Space For Cycling

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A milestone is reached in the UK, sadly

by AndrewRH • June 23, 2015 • 0 Comments

A milestone no one wanted to see reached: Clifton James was the 50th person to be killed whilst cycling on Britain’s roads this year. He died on Sunday, 21 June 2015. The collision involved a car. Ying Tao, who was killed less than 36 hours later at Bank in The City, was the 51st. The collision involved an HGV…

Space for Cycling in North West Hampshire

by AndrewRH • April 28, 2015 • 0 Comments

The North-West Hampshire constituency, around Andover and where I live in Whitchurch, Hampshire, is home to many people who choose to cycle or walk or drive. Hang on, so is every other place in the UK! We are all people making choices about how we travel to the shops, offices, schools, and places where our…

Fleet Station Costs Skyrocket and Cycle Provision Delayed Severely

by AndrewRH • October 6, 2014 • 2 Comments

Today marks the start of National Customer Service Week but you’d be forgiven for shaking your head at that after finding out how much South West Trains and Network Rail have let costs escalate and delays mount for their train station at Fleet, Hampshire. The cost to “revitalise” Fleet train station has mushroomed an incredible 48% to £8,871,000 from an original…

Consultation response for London’s cycle superhighways

by AndrewRH • September 12, 2014 • 0 Comments

An open letter to Transport for London expressing support for the proposed space for cycling.

Cycle? Yes! Alas, Guide Dogs charity blind to government inaction

by AndrewRH • August 30, 2014 • 0 Comments

This week saw the Guide Dogs charity launch a campaign called #cycleyes — as in ‘Cycle Eyes’ not ‘Cycle? Yes!’ — although the latter is what they spelled, albeit with different punctuation! Unfortunately, it wasn’t the best of launches – a flawed survey’s results were highlighted and led to later retractions. The charity also missed…

Cycling on military land under review

by AndrewRH • July 17, 2014 • 1 Comment

The byelaws which govern public access to various UK military lands are being reviewed. I queried if any restrictions are being considered for cycling across military lands: Definitely a maybe on that… UPDATE 12 August 2014: See the correspondence section below for a letter received from the MoD. The aptly named ‘Byelaws Review Team’ at the Ministry of Defense…

Legacy of Tour de France: Car-centric local growth deals

by AndrewRH • July 7, 2014 • 0 Comments

On the day that the Tour de France cycling sport racers come to southern England, the government announce even more money to support the country’s car culture. Over £2 billion is going to be spent in 39 ‘local growth deals‘ including £118 million in towns like Basingstoke along the M3 corridor (aka ‘Enterprise M3‘) for example: Basingstoke North Corridor…

Red Card! My interview of Traffic Droid

by AndrewRH • May 28, 2014 • 3 Comments

No doubt a few of you watched the first episode of the Channel 4 programme ‘The Complainers‘ which featured a man calling himself ‘Traffic Droid‘. A week and a bit ago, I bumped into Lewis (not literally) at the LCC’s Big Ride for Space for Cycling; an impromptu interview followed. More information about the various #space4cycling…

Cementing Basingstoke’s Car Culture Future

by AndrewRH • March 4, 2014 • 1 Comment

A new ‘master plan’ for the central area of Basingstoke – known as The Top of Town, which includes the pedestrianised High Street – was published on 31 January 2014 along with a public survey (that closed 7 March 2014). The plan highlights the construction of a new 5-storey car park along with a few more…

GroundCycle: Because pies in the sky (cycle) require a coffee-perky foundation

by AndrewRH • December 31, 2013 • 1 Comment

The SkyCycle concept for travelling about in London is in the Daily Mail again. It is the second time around for this radical bicycle infrastructure idea – the first time was back in September 2012 (readers who encounter issues with clicking links to The Daily Mail can read this and that instead). Aside: The original proposal may…