Posts about promoting cycling or improving cycle safety in and around Chichester
Sarah Sharp (who founded ChiCycle over a decade ago) is supporting a plan to extend 20mph limits to the arterial roads in the City of Chichester but needs to find out how much community support there is for this. Please fill in this form to share your views.
The A286 has a history of high fatalities and injuries. It is particularly dangerous where there are many bends and a high 50 MPH speed limit. Sarah Sharp, who founded ChiCycle more than a decade ago, is meeting with the Area Highways Manager on site to support the Traffic Regulation Orders that the parishes along the road want to put in. The petition is in support the reduction in speed limit on the bends on the A286 near the Cider…
Contemporary woven sculptor Mark Ford has just completed an installation at Queen Elizabeth Country Park and ChiCycle provided a sound system to play Keith Sutton’s ambient synth music at the sculpture’s opening event. The event was also supported by a wonderful storyteller named Chris and a mysterious giant woodman named Russ. Below is an image gallery showing some images of the opening ceremony of the new Giant’s Head Sculpture at the Queen Elizabeth Country Park. Story of the Selfish Giant…
Update The Oakland’s Park Event will move date to Sunday 17th July. This is to prevent a clash with the excellent Rotary Dragon Boat Race event. ChiCycle 2022 pop-up event dates and locations are now as follows: Whyke Amphitheatre Sunday June 12th Oakland’s Park Sunday July 17th Florence Park Sunday August 14th Brewery Field Sunday ( now cancelled) September 4th Updated documents relating to these changes of dates are available on the links immediately below 2022-ChiCycle-pop-up event proposal-V3 2022-ChiCycle-popup-minimusic-dates-and-locations-V3 2022-ChiCycle-Pop-Up-Eco-Fair-Event-Application-Form-V3…
On the 25/03/2022 Carley Sitwell sent data she had collected from traffic counts she made on the northern Westgate pavement. Carley collected tremendously useful data that shows pedestrian flows regularly exceed the 300 people per hour maximum considered acceptable for shared use cycle-ways by DfT LTN1/20 guidelines for cycle infrastructure design (paragraph 6.5.7) As student leave Bishop Luffa school in the afternoon, there are high flows or pedestrians, often exceeding 350 people per hour. Over the hour period MONDAY March…
National Highways have launched their public consultation on proposals for the A27 Grey Route Arundel Bypass strategic road network expansion scheme. The the consultation web-link is available as follows: https://a27arundelbypass.consultation.ai The consultation website explains: All responses must be received by 11.59pm on Tuesday 8 March 2022. Responses received after that date may not be considered. A PDF copy of ChiCycle’s position on the grey route scheme is available on this link. The best way of responding to the consultation is…
Refusal by West Sussex County Council (WSCC) to agree to cap legal costs leaves it prohibitively expensive to pursue a community claim to keep safe footways at Westgate/Sherborne-Rd. Map Link https://www.google.com/maps/@50.835739,-0.793768,17z Legal action to preserve safe community pavements: Update, January 2022. On behalf of ChiCycle, solicitor Alice Goodenough has sent a letter of complaint to WSCC dated 27 January 2022. This letter is available on this link (Letter HG to Council complaint 27.01.22). The County Council has refused to agree…
In the image below, residents illustrate what it will be like to have bikes rounding this blind North East quadrant of pavement at the Westgate/Sherbourne-Rd mini-roundabout. In the image below, residents line up on the blind corner at the South Eastern quadrant of pavement going past a busy osteopathy clinic who’s driveways will be blind to approaching cyclists. Local Groups are Supporting Mark Record (Secretory of ChiCycle) in a Legal Challenge against the Conversion of the Pavements into Shared Use…
Here are some photos from two places with traffic management systems I have visited in recent months. Farnham in Surrey The first two photos show Farnham, a town I know well, having lived there in the early 1980s and I place I visit regularly. Well worth a visit if you don’t know it. These plant holders were placed in Downing Street Farnham in September 2020, and I was pleased to see on a visit in November this year that they…
On the 29th November 2021 WSCC formally announced the decision to convert sections of unsuitably narrow Westgate pavement into shared use cycle tracks, HT12 21/22. Details are also currently accessible directly from WSCC here. During the statutory consultation, which also involved a number of changes to the highway in other locations away from Westgate, only five supportive comments were submitted and 30 objections were received which have been summarised in Appendix C to the report (this document also includes Comments…