June 2020 – ChiCycle

Open Letter to Highways England regarding the Chichester to Emsworth Cycle-way

June 26, 2020 Mark Record Comments 4 Comments

We have now received the following reply from highways England: Subject: FW: ChiCycle Chichester-Emsworth A27 Designated Funds Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2020 15:51:48 +0000 From: Elliott, Simon <Simon.Elliott@highwaysengland.co.uk> Dear Mr Record Thank you for your email regarding the Chichester to Emsworth Non-Motorised User (NMU) route. Firstly, may I apologise for the length of time it has taken to respond to your letter. As you are aware, we are currently in the process of procuring a design partner to progress the…

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Cycling Without Age and BrightRide

June 20, 2020 Mark Record Comments 0 Comment

A new Chichester community cycling website https://www.brightride.org.uk/ has appeared and their objectives overlap with many similar aims held by ChiCycle. We are excited about working with them but remain slightly jealous because their website looks considerably more professional than ours. Richard Turnbull has politely contacted us for support with the BrightRide Cycling Without Age Project and we are really pleased to hear that someone is working towards such a wonderful idea for inclusive cycling. The project is to make a…

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Chichester to Emsworth Cycle Route (please share your opinions)

June 18, 2020 Mark Record Comments 8 Comments

The Chichester District Cycle Forum made a freedom of information request to government to publish the National Highways fund feasibility study plans for the Chichester to Emsworth Cycle Route. As a result the document has been publicly released. A few sensitive commercial details have been blanked out from the report but all the information likely to be of interest to the community has been disclosed. The full report is available on this link. It can also be reached from the…

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West of Chichester Spine Road Cycle Provision is being Significantly Downgraded!

June 7, 2020 Mark Record Comments 1 Comment

ChiCycle recently raised safety issues over the West of Chichester Development’s proposed continuous cycle-way that was to run parallel with the Northern Spine Road. Our concerns appear to have initiated changes in planning. Developers promised a continuous cycle-way with pedestrians and cyclists having priority at crossings. Unfortunately the developers designs failed to meet DFT safety standards. A new WSCC highways adoption agreement has solved some safety issues by removing the traffic priority for pedestrians and cyclists! ChiCycle members have mixed…

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Response to the open letter from the Mayor – 2 June 2020

June 2, 2020 Mark Record Comments 4 Comments

Dear Chichestor City Mayor Richard Plowman, Sorry to say but your open letter from the Mayor – 2 June 2020 came across as negative towards cyclists and cycling. Of course it is a concern to everyone that accompanying this great renaissance in cycling there have been accidents and fatalities. However, to put these issues into context, the British Medical Journal reports an uptake in cycling generally tends to reduces rates of mortality when cyclists are compared to car-dependent control sample…

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