Archive for the ‘Cycle routes’ Category
Thursday, January 19th, 2012
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.
Tags: Canterbury City Council, Canterbury District, Crab and Winkle Line Trust, Crab and Winkle Way, Herne Bay, Kent County Council, Oyster Bay Trail, Regional Cycle Route 15, Sustrans, Swalecliffe, Whitstable
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
A few weeks ago KCC opened public consultation on the Sevenoaks Cycling Strategy. If you live, work, or cycle for leisure in Sevenoaks district then we encourage you to respond to this consultation, which will influence the direction of cycling developments in the district for years to come. The consultation can be accessed at the following website:
http://www.kent.gov.uk/sevenoakscycling
Tags: Cycling Strategy, Edenbridge, Otford, Sevenoaks, Sevenoaks Cycling Strategy, Sevenoaks District, Swanley
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Saturday, November 5th, 2011
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.
A gallery of all of the new signs can be seen on CycleStreets.
Tags: Canterbury, Canterbury District, Canterbury riverside cycle route, Canterbury to Chartham riverside cycle route, Great Stour Way, Horses and Goats tunnel, National Cycle Route 1, National Cycle Route 18, Signs
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Saturday, August 20th, 2011
A new carved picnic bench and associated cycle parking have been installed on the Great Stour Way this week. This follows the recent installation of several interpretation boards around the Hambrook Marshes through which the Great Stour Way passes.
The picnic bench and cycle parking have been part funded by Spokes in conjunction with the Kentish Stour Countryside Partnership.
Tags: Bench, Canterbury, Canterbury District, Canterbury riverside cycle route, Cycle parking, Elham Valley Railway, Great Stour Way, Hambrook Marshes, National Cycle Route 18
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Friday, May 20th, 2011
In February we posted an update about the shared-use riverside cycling and walking path at the edge of Kingsbrook Park in Canterbury. We’re pleased to see that the public has now gained access to part of this route in the last few days.
The full extent of the path through to Barton Mill isn’t available yet, since building work is still taking place adjacent to it at the Barton Mill end of the Kingsbrook Park housing development. However access is available both to the old site of the coach park (which housed the temporary Marlowe Theatre) via a new cycle and pedestrian bridge. Pedestrian access to Barton Mill can be achieved by using the roads in Kingsbrook Park to access the riverside footpath on the northern side of the development and walking eastward along this.
We look forward to when the full length of the southern shared-use path will be available in the coming months.
A map showing the new path’s location can be seen here:
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=51.285957&lon=1.085879&zoom=18&layers=M
The cycle path is shown as a dotted blue line.
Tags: Canterbury, Canterbury District, Canterbury riverside cycle route, Kingsbrook Park, Kingsmead
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The Horses & Goats Tunnel is now open. The tunnel provides a traffic-free cycling and walking route between the Wincheap Trading Estate and the new Connextions housing in Canterbury. It provides a vastly better alternative to cycling the A28 in Wincheap.