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Oyster Bay Trail cycle route phase 2 consultation

Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:38:11 +0000

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.

Sevenoaks Cycling Strategy

Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:53:25 +0000

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

Bybrook path consultation

Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 15:28:09 +0000

Kent County Council have opened a new public consultation for the creation of a new public right of way linking Bybrook with Eureka Leisure Park in Ashford. The proposal is for a public footpath, but we believe that it would benefit cyclists if it could be developed as a cycle path shared with pedestrians. It would offer shorter journeys between Bybrook and the town centre traffic-free and away from the main roads. The new route would provide an ideal link with the brand new cycle and pedestrian bridge over the M20.

The consultation can be viewed view the following website, where you can also provide your feedback:

http://consultations.kent.gov.uk/consult.ti/PROW_bybrook/consultationHome

New cycle signs installed in Canterbury

Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:10:40 +0000

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.

New picnic bench installed on the Great Stour Way

Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:55:11 +0000

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.

Cycle route extended along Royal Military Canal

Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign — Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:20:46 +0000

National Cycle Route 2 west of Hythe has recently been extended to follow more of the path beside the Royal Military Canal. The increased traffic-free stretch extends beyond West Hythe to Aldergate Bridge following the southern boundary of Port Lympne wild animal park. You may even catch a glance of some of the animals in the park, as pictured.

The new path of National Cycle Route 2 can be seen on OpenCycleMap.

Signposts and benches installed on Great Stour Way

Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 14:01:48 +0000

We’re pleased to see that signposts and benches have now been installed on the Great Stour Way riverside cycling and walking route between Canterbury and Chartham.

National Cycle Route 1 closure during Open Golf

Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign — Sat, 18 Jun 2011 09:06:45 +0000

Spokes member Chris Harrington has emailed us to point out that the portion of National Cycle Route 1 between Sandwich and Deal through the Royal Cinque Ports Golf Club will be closed during next month’s Open Golf championship. Thanks for letting us know, Chris.

Canterbury gains more riverside cycle path

Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign — Fri, 20 May 2011 15:14:37 +0000

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.

Canterbury’s Horses & Goats Tunnel is open

Spokes East Kent Cycle Campaign — Wed, 11 May 2011 19:52:52 +0000

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.