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West Sussex County Council are concluding stage one engagement/consultation over a controversial shared use urban pavement conversion schemes. A link the the consultation is available here https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/chichester-corridors The first part of the scheme aims to convert the pavement adjacent to the Northgate car park into a two way shared use cycle track. This will severely disadvantage people who have sensory impairment and particularly discriminate against elderly, disabled, dog owners (including people with guide dogs) and people with young families. The…

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Approaching Traffic from the A259 will have Inadequate Visibility of the Proposed Uncontrolled Crossing! The A259 is busy a trunk road and the proposed WoC uncontrolled crossing will be situated on a blind limb of the roundabout where Sherborne road joins the A259. The design has previously failed a safety audit over identical concerns. All that is proposed as a solution is to temporarily cut a few trees trees while ignoring all other relevant DfT guidance on highway visibility requirements…

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How The Community Have Been Misled (Particularly by County Council Highways Officers) Chichester residents have long held fears over the conversion of Westgate and Sherbourne Rd pavements to shared use cycle tracks. This issue has been of particular concern to disabled and visually impaired residents. Current plans for the 2nd stage of the 1600 home West of Chichester development includes designs for a controversial Southern Access Spine Road. This road will bring intense heavy traffic onto formerly quiet neighbourhood/school streets…

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On the 10 March 2023 Active Travel England justifiably awarded West Sussex authorities with a score of Zero to reflect their consistently poor support for active travel (walking & cycling). This Zero score recognises the absence of all three key ingredients (local leadership, ambition and capability) necessary for a local authority to make meaningful improvements that support walking and cycling. Out of the 79 UK authorities that Active Travel England assessed, only three others (Worcestershire, Rutland & Leicestershire) scored as…

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Jan Davis joined the ChiCycle group and documented the protest with his photographs. Mayday Action Group Protest 26th March Hi These are some of the pictures I took yesterday in Chichester and Fishbourne. Use them exactly as you like and sending the link allows others to download. Great demonstration. Well done. Cheers Jan Davis The following link for downloading the photos is available until April the 2nd https://wetransfer.com/downloads/8dfcd6fa4d19f0e031341b6089da41f320230326122143/970a2126735429473cca8fe8752670a220230326122209/b764b9 A gallery of the images is available below,   Original Post Inviting…

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Jonathan Fulford and Mark Record drove up to London Green Cycles on Saturday the 4th Feb 2023 and picked up ChiCycle’s Community Bakfiets Long Cargo Bike. On its arrival back to Chichester, it was taken for test rides on Centurion Way. The ChiCycle Bakfiets is intended to support community events and also allow local people to try easily out and borrow a Dutch style bakfeits Cargo Bike. Although a deposit may be required, we intend to loan out the ChiCycle Bakfiets…

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Andy Sargent of the Mayday Action Group has kindly invited ChiCycle supporters to the Mayday Action Group benefit gig at the Woolpack Inn 13th January starting at 8pm. Entrance is free but donations will support the Mayday Action Group. Why not join the audience and enjoy the gig that is sure to brighten up a winters Friday evening? Mayday Action Group are concerned housing development along the West Sussex coast is rapidly going ahead without adequate planning for essential infrastructure….

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Bike Tales is a narrative podcast series discovering the stories behind the people and places in biking cities. Season One was recorded in Ottawa, the capital city of Canada. Season two is currently in production and will focus on Chichester in the UK. ChiCycle members met up with Clare Mansell at the 2022 26th Nov Mayday Action Group Protest. Clare runs storysolutions.net which is a business specialising in audio & video post-production. We immediately knew Clare was a media professional…

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Update Mayday Action achieved a fantastic action all along the coast between Havant and Chichester. A diverse range of community groups all joined together along the A259 to express their concerns over large scale housing development with apparently little or no town planning that addresses transport, drainage, civic centres, and transport infrastructure (including provision for walking and cycling). Chicycle supporters joined the event leaving from Chichester Market Cross at 10:00am and ended up at the Bosham roundabout by 12:00 midday….

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WSCC held an event where people could view the proposals for B2144 Oving Road and speak to members of the project team. The event took place on Thursday 20 October 2022 at Portfield Primary Academy. You may also communicate your views on the scheme (and view the WSCC proposals) by following this link https://yourvoice.westsussex.gov.uk/b2144ovingroad WSCC are seeking your views on the designs for Oving Road. The consultation is open until 11:59pm on 14 November 2022. They say “Your feedback will…

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