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Musical Pop-up Mini Eco-fair Summer ChiCycle Events

April 15, 2022 Mark Record Comments 1 Comment

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…

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Traffic count on Sherborne Rd and Westgate Pavements

March 25, 2022 Mark Record Comments 3 Comments

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…

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ChiCycle Position on the A27 Arundel Bypass

February 1, 2022 Mark Record Comments 0 Comment

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…

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Legal action to preserve safe community pavements: Update, January 2022.

January 30, 2022 Mark Record Comments 1 Comment

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…

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On New Years Day Residents Visited Westgate/Sherbourne-Rd over Concerns they will Permanently Loose their Safe Pavements

January 8, 2022 Mark Record Comments 0 Comment

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…

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Funding for Legal Action Against Directing Cyclists Around Blind Pavement Corners

December 12, 2021 Mark Record Comments 2 Comments

UPDATE On the 23rd Dec 2022 the Judicial Review Pre-Action Protocol Letter and Statement of Facts and Grounds were sent to tro.team@westsussex.gov.uk & rebecca.caney@westsussex.gov.uk ORIGINAL POST I (Mark Record) have now started a legal action against the WSCC decision to direct cyclists onto city pavements to ride around blind corners at the junction between Sherborne Rd and Westgate. ChiCycle concerns over use of shared pavements at this junction are available on this link. The illustration below shows one of the potential…

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Two Traffic Management Systems – Ideas for Chichester?

December 3, 2021 Martin Emmett Comments 0 Comment

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…

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WSCC formally announce their decision to go ahead with the sub standard conversion of Westgate pavements into shared use cycle tracks

November 30, 2021 Mark Record Comments 2 Comments

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…

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24th November FOI request to WSCC regarding conversion of Westgate and Sherbourne Road pavements into Cycle Tracks

November 24, 2021 Mark Record Comments 1 Comment

Second Update WSCC replied to ChiCycle’s FOI request FOI/3119 ChiCycle’s original questions appear in black type. WSCC responses appear in blue type. ChyCycle comments regarding the responses are shown in red type. The biggest bombshell revelation is answer No 11! WSCC claim to have engaged with an organisation that disbanded 8 years ago. It is not clear how this would be possible without a time machine. Dear Mark Record, Our Ref: FOI/3119 On 24/11/2021 you made the following request for information,…

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Conversion of Westgate Pavements (footways) into Shared Use Cycletracks Freedom of Information Request to CDC

November 21, 2021 Mark Record Comments 1 Comment

Update Laura Coombs emailed back almost immediately on behalf of CDC to explain it is WSCC who are responsible for these highway planning decisions. ChiCycle members find it frustrating that key elements of CDC planning agreements are delegated to WSCC highways but this is clearly no fault of Laura Coombs who kindly got back to us very quickly. Here response is as follows: Dear Mark Thank you for your email. Chichester District Council is not responsible for this, we believe…

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