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Sustainable travel and cycling in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, and the wider UK | The personal cycling stories of BicycleBen
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.
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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.
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[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.
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A proposal has been raised by Coventry City Council to ban cycling and riding e-scooters through the pedestrianised city centre. The idea, which will involve an amendment to an existing Public Space Protection Order (PSPO), comes in response to concerns about dangerous and inconsiderate riding in pedestrianised spaces. It is now out for consultation allowing the public to have their say.
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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