The consultation for the next phase of the popular Oyster Bay Trail cycle route linking Whitstable, Herne Bay, and Reculver is now open. This latest phase will complete the route by linking Swalecliffe and Whitstable and the Crab & Winkle Way. Improvements will also be made to the Crab & Winkle Way cycle route.
Spokes, the Crab & Winkle Line Trust, Sustrans, Canterbury City Council and Kent County Council have all been involved with the planning of this route and we fully support the plans. We strongly encourage you to write in support of these proposals in order to assure that they will go ahead. More details on the proposals can be seen here:
http://www.canterbury.gov.uk/main.cfm?objectid=7389
You can show your support for this scheme by answering the short online questionnaire here:
http://www.canterbury.gov.uk/authority/survey.cfm?file=mtr_cycle_route
Canterbury City Council would prefer responses online instead of by post since this will speed up the collation of all of the responses. Consultation responses need to be received by 21 February.

My red Claude Butler Roubaix 59 cm road bike (see at the Berry last week) was stolen (police crime ref. no. ZY 1402-11) from St.George’s Road, Sandwich, on Tuesday November 29th between ca. 5.30 and 6.30 pm.
A number of new cycle signs have just been installed around the Toddler’s Cove and Wincheap areas of Canterbury for directing cyclists along the new Great Stour Way cycle path to Chartham and via the Horses & Goats Tunnel to Wincheap. We’d be interested to hear what cyclists think of these new signs. Please leave your comments below.


