Fiets! Let's Cycle like the Dutch!
Sustainable travel and cycling advocacy, news and developments in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and the wider UK | The personal cycling stories of BicycleBen
The latest version of Warwickshire’s Local Transport Plan, which sets out a high level overview of how the Council should be managing and investing in its transport infrastructure, has been approved. The document sets out a very clear vision for transport over the next decade, putting walking, wheeling, and cycling at the top of the transport hierarchy.
Continue reading
In a County Council debate on a developer-funded £4.4m road improvement scheme coming to Nuneaton, some Conservative councillors – particularly those local to Nuneaton – showed their anti-cycling, motornormative views and positions.
Continue reading
More local Conservative councillors have shown their hostility to enabling modal shift and improving cycling infrastructure in a recent Borough Council Committee session, with comments that are ill-informed and untrue.
Continue reading
Some Conservative local councillors speaking in a Borough Council Scrutiny Panel have demonstrated their lack of consideration for cycling as a means for accessing and travelling through Bedworth Town Centre, despite upcoming new leisure cycling facilities in the nearby Miners’ Welfare Park.
Continue reading
At the recent local election for Warwickshire County Council, a number of new councillors were elected to represent their residents, in addition to many who retained their seats. Nuneaton and Bedworth is now a Conservative controlled area and given the soundings on active travel from the national Conservative government over the last year or so, I am interested to hear
Continue reading
