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Sustainable travel and cycling in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and the wider UK | The personal cycling stories of BicycleBen
Following a police request for the Borough Council to consider a cycling ban in Nuneaton town centre, data has finally arrived on the number of cycling-related complaints and incidents that have been recorded here by Warwickshire Police.
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A Nuneaton police inspector has requested a cycling ban for Nuneaton’s town centre, to deal with antisocial cycling with the specific issue of young people pulling wheelies cited as a reason why it’s required – a sledgehammer to crack a nut approach that won’t solve the problem.
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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.
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Nuneaton is one of the towns that has been selected to receive money from the government’s Towns Fund, under the Towns Investment Plan, to develop regeneration proposals. The Borough Council has been calling for comments from residents on five key areas where the fund can be put to use: Local transport Digital connectivity Urban regeneration Arts, culture and heritage Skills.
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Nuneaton and Bedworth Council (NBBC) have announced plans to make significant improvements to its leisure facilities including a new, replacement leisure centre in Bedworth, new facilities to the North of Nuneaton – and the enhancement of the existing Pingles Leisure Centre just south of the town centre. However, there are some aspects of the plan for Pingles that concern me
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It’s been reported that as part of the Transforming Nuneaton project, ideas are afoot to make significant changes to the town’s ring-road (part of the A444), including the branch of the road passing the station. While changes do consider improvements for bus services and make mention of cycling access to the station, in general they concern me.
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Locally, the issue of car parking charges has cropped up from time-to-time, with some politicians arguing for a reduction, e.g. £1.00 for 3 hours parking at weekdays. The argument for a reduced car parking charge is that it will encourage visits to the town centre, and with it being a fixed cost for a longer period of time, these visits
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The ongoing saga relating to access restrictions on cycle paths, specifically Nuneaton’s Weddington Walk (part of National Cycle Network Route 52) continues following receipt of a response to my questions, this time from a Council director. The contents of that reply are copied below. I was a little disappointed that the email was headed ‘Draft’ in the subject, almost like
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Yesterday, I receive my long-awaited reply to last month’s follow up request for information relating to the use of K-frame barriers, specifically on Weddington Walk. The full allowance of twenty working days was used to provide me with the responses of either ‘we do not hold that information’ or ‘this is not a request for information.’
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In my last post on 24 July, I spoke about the obstructions present along NCN52, specifically in the form of K-Frame barriers on a section known locally as Weddington Walk. Having not received a satisfactory response from my general enquiry to Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council, I sent a message with a list of questions asked under the Freedom of
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