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.
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.
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.
We’re excited to see that the construction of Canterbury’s new riverside cycle path beside the new Kingsbrook Park housing at Kingsmead is nearing completion:
Background information on the route can be seen in the Kingsmead Bridge to Barton Mill portion of our Future Routes pages.
Over the course of the summer the construction work on the Canterbury to Chartham cycle route has been progressing. Recent developments include preparing the site for bridges across to the rear of Staples, two smaller bridges across ditches, building the path around the Elham Valley Railway Line embankment, and the construction of the next phase of path into Bretts Aggregates’s land. These are pictured below.
For background please see the Canterbury to Chartham Riverside Route section of the Future Routes portion of our website.
Spokes are pleased to see that the Canterbury to Chartham riverside cycle route construction resumed at the Canterbury end. It is envisaged that the route will soon connect to Tonford Lane before continuing to the newly widened path beside Chartham village hall. Once complete this route will form part of National Cycle Route 18.
For background please see the Canterbury to Chartham Riverside Route section of the Future Routes portion of our website.
We now have details of a new bridge over the river Stour that’ll link with the riverside cycle route that’s being developed beside Kingsbrook Park in Canterbury. For details please see the Kingsmead Bridge to Barton Mill page in the Future Routes section of our website.
Spokes attended Canterbury City Council’s Development Control Committee meeting last night and were pleased to hear that some student accommodation at Parham Road got granted planning permission. Part of the development includes plans for a riverside cycling and walking route. This route, together with an existing section behind Sargeant’s Parade, and other sections soon to be delivered through to Kingsmead will enable cyclists and pedestrians a much safer and more pleasant route to and from the city centre. We look forward to seeing the St. Radigund’s Street to Kingsmead section developed now to extend the cycle route into the city centre itself. We’d also like to see the cycle route extended behind Asda.
For much more background on the overall riverside cycling and walking route within Canterbury please take a look at these pages from the Future Routes section of our website:
In addition to the riverside route the planning application will provide funding for the conversion of Mary Green Walk, on the opposite side of Sturry Road, to be converted to allow cycle access. This will create a much needed cycle route over to the Canterbury Christ Church University campus from the new student accommodation.