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ChEmRoute is a project/campaign to provide safe, segregated and direct cycling provision between Chichester and Emsworth.

The ChEmRoute project now has its own ChEmRouteVision website!

The ChEmRoute project now has its own ChEmRouteVision website!

ChEmRouteVision is an alternative approach to providing walking and cycling provision from the Highways England NMU proposals for the A259. Rather than force cyclists to ride on the pavements allowing heavier motor vehicle traffic to flow through the Harbour Villages, the ChEmRouteVision aims to take a Dutch style perspective at routing heavy through traffic away from population centres. This approach will not only enable safe and convenient walking and cycling between Chichester and Emsworth but it will also enable the…

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ChEmRoute Goes Dutch

ChEmRoute Goes Dutch

In parallel to Chichester District Council (CDC), West Sussex County Council (WSCC) and Highways England (HE) announcing plans to remove cycle lanes from the A259 between Chichester to Emsworth to make bikes ride on the pavement, the Department for Transport (DfT) has introduced giudlines and policies that require higher standards of walking and cycling provision. On the 27 July 2020 DfT published their policy paper for cycling and walking plan for England which sets out a vision for a travel…

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Chichester to Emsworth Cycle Route (please share your opinions)

Chichester to Emsworth Cycle Route (please share your opinions)

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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ChEmRoute Vision

ChEmRoute Vision

Join our Campaign to achieve the ChEmRoute Vision What we are demanding: Safe and convenient cycle-way all the way from Emsworth to Chichester (and back again) Entire route to meet or surpass DfT Cycle infrastructure design standards (LTN 2/08) Direct route following the A259 that does not needlessly meander Suitable for commuters to ride with a safe but fast 20 Mph design speed Cycle lane segregated from motor vehicles unless running in a Twenty is Plenty zone Continuous route without…

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West of Chichester Development Junction and Cycle-Path Geometry Concerns

West of Chichester Development Junction and Cycle-Path Geometry Concerns

The following planning application contains details of junctions on the development spine road. CC/20/01046/REM – Case Officer: Steve Harris. 50 dwellings with associated parking, landscaping, informal open space and associated works (Phase 5, Parcel F, permission 14/04301/OUT). A typical junction from this plan is shown in the image clipped from document CB_70_068_P5_F_000 (SITE LOCATION PLAN) is shown below. Developers have proposed that the pavement shown to the north east side of the spine road could be designated as a shared…

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WSCC Position regarding Gina McWilliam’s death

WSCC Position regarding Gina McWilliam’s death

Email from Andy Ekinsmyth of WSCC regarding Gina McWilliam’s death. Share by Jeremy Gould: Thank you for your email message. I am deeply saddened by this terrible event and my thoughts are with the family, friends and all of those affected. The tragic accident on the A259 at Salthill Road is currently subject to a police investigation. I am sure you will appreciate that that these matters are both complex and sensitive and that it would be wrong to try…

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Have Approved Plans Already Ended the Future for Cycleways to the West of Chichester? It looks like they may have!

Have Approved Plans Already Ended the Future for Cycleways to the West of Chichester? It looks like they may have!

ChiCycle is seeking advice as to whether the “West of Chichester Strategic Housing Development Cycle Strategy for Phase 1” plans have already been approved by local government. The document includes a sketch of a new arrangement of the Sherborne Road mini roundabout. The details included in the sketch are vague but viewed in conjunction with other draft plans they show a cycle route layout that is worse (more dangerous and less practical) than no cycle provision whatsoever. The Southern Access…

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The National Cycle Network South Coast Route (No2) Destined to get Even Longer!

The National Cycle Network South Coast Route (No2) Destined to get Even Longer!

You might imagine, after many years of campaigning about extending cycleways, ChiCycle would be excited and enthused over the prospect of a cycle route being made longer! However, we are concerned that the National Cycle Network South Coast Route (No2) is destined to become longer only by virtue of it being made increasingly convoluted. People will soon have to travel even further just to reach the same destinations. Unfortunately the section from the City’s Market Cross to the Fishbourne underpass…

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Striving for Improved Cycle Provision and the start of a new Video Project

Striving for Improved Cycle Provision and the start of a new Video Project

Following  the 5th April County Council meeting where our councillors unanimously supported Mr Michael Jones motion on Climate Change,  ChiCycle wish to promote focus on sustainable transport and pressure our local politicians into adhering to their commitments. If our elected representative are genuinely committed to the objective of a zero carbon society, then this must be reflected immediately in our local town planning decisions. All new housing development must now be designed to promote sustainable modes of transport over and…

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Whitehouse Farm Development Endangers Three Popular Cycle Routes

Whitehouse Farm Development Endangers Three Popular Cycle Routes

Salterns Way, ChEmRoute and Centurion Way are all under imminently threatened from plans for a southern access route linked to the Whitehouse Farm housing development. Saltern’s way is a delightful cycleway that leads from the Market Cross in Chichester all the way to West Wittering beach. It leads through miles of rural countryside and around the perimeter of Chichester harbour. ChEmRoute is the name of the project to upgrade the cycle way provision between the centres of Chichester and Emsworth….

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