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Sustainable travel and cycling in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and the wider UK | The personal cycling stories of BicycleBen
This time on The Fiets Podcast: a motor advert contrbutes to road hostility; Axel Blake and Amanda Holden show-off their anti-cycling views in Britain’s Got Talent; and Utrecht vs Nuneaton in ring-road designs.
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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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On 13 December, at a County Council session, the issue of excessive traffic causing unsafe levels of pollutants in the air was raised by Cllr Caroline Phillips. This was in specific relation to the ring-road in Nuneaton, where a bottleneck in the short route causes surrounding major roads towards the town to seize up. You can watch Councillor Phillips raise
Continue readingI took a short ride around Nuneaton yesterday on a route that takes me around part of the small ring-road on a shared-use path. This is one of those routes where pedestrians are meant to keep to one side (left, in this case), and cyclists the other, with a solid line down the centre of the path indicating that division,
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