A27 NMU Link Improvements Package Response from Michael Neville Bosham Parish Councillor

A27 NMU Link Improvements Package Response from Michael Neville Bosham Parish Councillor

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Michael Neville is a Bosham Parish Councillor and a lecturer at Chichester College. He is a committed environmentalist and has always commuted between his home and collage on his bicycle apart from a few extremely rare occasions when he used to bring in a vintage car on dry summer days. Mike has a young family and often brings his kids to work with them riding in a bike trailer so they can attend the College crèche. He has been living…

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Fishbourne Road East is NOT a Quiet Road Suitable for Cyclists to Share the Road-space with Motor-vehicles

Fishbourne Road East is NOT a Quiet Road Suitable for Cyclists to Share the Road-space with Motor-vehicles

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Update… National Highways acknowledge they were looking at the wrong data. A response from Project Manager Adriana Chirovici is now copied at the end of the post below the horizontal line. Original Post… ChiCycle will shortly be writing to Highways England in the hope of correcting misrepresentations they have made in recent presentations. On Friday the 5th of February 2021, ChiCycle members attended a virtual meeting hosted by Highways England about their proposed for an NMU scheme that intends to…

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Safety Concerns over Highways England Proposal to Convert Pavements into Cycle Tracks between Chichester and Emsworth

Safety Concerns over Highways England Proposal to Convert Pavements into Cycle Tracks between Chichester and Emsworth

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ChiCycle will be contacting Chris Heaton-Harris (the minister for cycling and walking) and Baroness Vere of Norbiton (the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State at the Department for Transport) to get national governments official response to the following concerns. Highways England proposals to convert West Sussex pavements into shared use cycle tracks between Chichester and Emsworth contravene Department for Transport standards for road safety! The A27DesignatedFunds@highwaysengland.co.uk Chichester to Emsworth Route for Non-Motorised Users is a scheme 8.85 km in length that…

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Chichester Observer reports A259 Conversion of Pavements to Shared Use Cycle Tracks

Chichester Observer reports A259 Conversion of Pavements to Shared Use Cycle Tracks

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On the 17th February 2021 the Chichester Post published a story explaining scepticism from residents after proposals were revealed to narrow a road in Emsworth, to make way for a ‘shared use pavement’, and to relocate a Southbourne bus stop, to allow a narrow pavement to be used as a two-way cycle-track. Full details of the story can be read here: Latest proposals for ‘two-way cycle track’ between Emsworth and Chichester divide opinion. Andrew Gould, Gabby Adams and Mark Record…

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Controversial Plans to Convert A259 pavements into Cycle-Tracks

Controversial Plans to Convert A259 pavements into Cycle-Tracks

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On Friday the 5th of February 2021,  ChiCycle members Gabby Adams, Sarah-Sharp and Mark Record attended a virtual meeting hosted by Highways England. This meeting was held to discuss revised proposals described as improvements to the Chichester to Emsworth Route for non-motorised users. The meeting was attended by approximately 30 people representing the Borne communities, and advocates for pedestrians, cyclists and people with sensory impairment. There was wide concern over the proposal to convert pavements along the A259 into shared…

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Infrastructure specifications in place for 13 Years have been ignored by our Local Planning Authorities and Councillors

Infrastructure specifications in place for 13 Years have been ignored by our Local Planning Authorities and Councillors

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ChiCycle members hope that the local authorities will take the new LTN/1/20 standards for cycle infrastructure seriously but we are already dismayed that brand new cycle infrastructure is being permitted that fails to meet standards that have been in place for 13 years. Unfortunately local provision of cycle infrastructure is of such poor quality, it amounts to displaying bike symbols on standard pedestrian pavements. Standards for cycle infrastructure LTN 2/08 were introduced by the Department for Transport in February 2008…

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Would you consider hiring an Ebike to Ride in the Chichester Area?

Would you consider hiring an Ebike to Ride in the Chichester Area?

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Richard Turnbull of www.brightride.org.uk is conducting some market research to find out if there is demand for hiring out e-bikes in Chichester. If you want to invite friends and family to experience riding around the Chichester area, an e-bike hire scheme might be an appealing prospect for you? Maybe you would be interested in trying out an e-bike yourself? If you have time, please complete Richards online questionnaire he has created here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScdsUS1hSQQ40wXybhA6QhPA8jNaHxYyrP7qePhq1dtd0OaAw/viewform If you have not already tried riding…

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Concern over Junction Design for Cycling on the White House Farm Development

Concern over Junction Design for Cycling on the White House Farm Development

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ChiCycle enjoyed positive news from White House Farm development. We have receive written assurance that traffic using the shared use cycle track running adjacent to the developments spine road, will have continuous priority over motor-vehicle traffic that crosses the shared use cycle track. On the 17th Dec 2020 the developers representatives stated… Firstly, as noted at the recent stakeholder briefing, pedestrians and cyclists will have priority at all junctions between the spine road and adjoining roads. This will be the…

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Plans for Summer Cargo-bike Presentations (maybe without using a Petrol Generator?)

Plans for Summer Cargo-bike Presentations (maybe without using a Petrol Generator?)

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Jonathan Fulford helped crowed fund the Liz Canning produced film about the family and social advantages of using cargo bikes. As a ChiCycle member Jonathan hopes to get permission from Liz Canning so we can show all or parts of the documentary in public presentations on walking and cycling opportunities in Chichester. A few of us have been having lively discussions over showing the film: Should we show the uncut version where family viewers will hear the foul language hurled…

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Oct 29th Newsletter

Oct 29th Newsletter

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Dear ChiCycle Supporter, 1st Nov – Ride Chichester’s Pop-Up cycle scheme before it is removed Unfortunately, WSCC have taken the decision to remove the Pop-Up cycle scheme in Chichester. The decision was taken less than two months after the scheme opened on the 25th Aug. Previously ChiCycle discovered that the counter system was not correctly recording usage of the cycle way and no analysis of congestion or safety of the scheme appears to have been made. It is not clear…

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