Tag: Nuneaton

An image of Croft Road in Nuneaton from a bicycle camera in the centre of the lane, about to pass a traffic island pinch point. Parked cars line the road ahead, and traffic is flowing in the opposite direction. Houses line the right side of the road. To the left is a green strip with a few fairly young trees.

An appropriate response to a consultation submission?

Posted on 12/07/202418/07/2024 by Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch

Recently, Warwickshire County Council ran a short consultation on installing speed cushions on Croft Road, Nuneaton. Responding to that, an objection submitted by yours truly noted the issues these can cause for cycling, including the potential increase in the risk from close passes, and in particular the impact on accessible cycling – points that appear to have been ignored in the Portfolio Holder’s Report.

Changing Nuneaton: Bermuda Connection (2024 vs 2021)

Posted on 11/07/202411/07/2024 by Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch

Comparing the new Bermuda Connection scheme in Nuneaton after completion, to what the route looked like just before the project commenced in 2021. This is a highly controversial, expensive, and over-running scheme to open up a bridge to motor traffic.

An extremely short designation of shared use path seen on the opposite side of the carriageway to the camera. A shared use roundel announces the start of the route which is then ended just a few meters on with "end of route" and "cyclists dismount" signs. A proper shared use path is on the camera side of the road.

Nuneaton’s shortest shared use path?

Posted on 10/07/202410/07/2024 by Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch

When it comes to shared use infrastructure, how short is too short? Perhaps when it’s only a few metres, flanked on either side by a regular footpath (i.e., not designated for cycling), and where the path on the opposite side has a proper and useful (if poor considering modern standards) shared use route.

A wide urban road at a traffic light controlled junction, seen from the middle of the carriageway (from a handlebar camera). A white car is travelling in the opposite direction and the traffic signal is green.

More detail on Nuneaton’s suspended cycle scheme

Posted on 21/06/202419/10/2024 by Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch

Following a protracted request for information on the pausing of the Long Shoot Cycle Scheme in Nuneaton, we now have some more information about the scheme, including funding and consultation comments – but questions remain about what happens next.

A lack of commitment from Labour?

Posted on 19/06/2024 by Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch

Given that a Labour government looks likely after the upcoming General Election next month, and that Labour is the primary challenger to Nuneaton’s Tory incumbent MP, I wrote recently to Jodie Gosling – Labour’s Parliamentary Candidate for Nuneaton – to ask for her and the Party’s views and intentions on active travel. I’ve had a reply and I am concerned.

Bull Ring Junction with Heath End Road and Greenmoor Road, Nuneaton (April 2020)

Works set to begin on motor-centric junction redesign

Posted on 30/05/202430/05/2024 by Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch

Two-and-a-half years after Warwickshire County Council put out a junction redesign for consultation, construction of the car-centric updated junction at Greenmoor Road, College Street, and Heath End Road in Nuneaton is set to begin in the Summer of 2024.

A no-cycling sign on an upright pole at the entrance to a narrow pedestrianised town centre street.

No Data to Support Town Centre Cycling Ban

Posted on 02/03/202402/03/2024 by Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch

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.

A fenced off short stub of pathway between an old canal bridge and a main path. The stub is about 1.6m wide and flanked with metal railings. Two barriers are in the path, arranged in a chicane style.

Who cares about accessibility?

Posted on 02/02/202420/09/2024 by Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch

[Video] A new public path installed on a Nuneaton industrial site by Baytree Logistics Developments appears to fail minimum design and accessibility standards thanks to a 1.6m wide branch flanked with railings and blocked with chicane barriers.

Cycling along the A47 Long Shoot in Nuneaton, a 40mph, as a lorry passes at a safe distance.

Warwickshire PAUSES Nuneaton cycle schemes

Posted on 01/12/202302/12/2023 by Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch

Warwickshire County Council has stated that it is pausing development of its often-delayed Long Shoot Cycle Scheme and its Hinckley Road scheme in Nuneaton. The reasoning for this decision has been attributed both to levels of community support and a funding shortfall.

Cycle ban proposal for Nuneaton Town Centre

Posted on 16/10/202316/10/2023 by Fiets! Let's Cycle Like the Dutch

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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