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Top StoryTHOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS TO BE DISAPPOINTED AT SCRAPPING OF OLD SHOREHAM RD CYCLE ROUTE
Saturday, 06 March 2010 Brighton and Hove City Council have dropped plans for the Old Shoreham Road cycle route whch was to run from BHASVIC college in Hove to Applesham Way in Portslade. This important route has been in the pipeline for some years and 15,000 people, schools and businesses were consulted on the plans in 2009 at an estimated cost of over £100,000. The proposed route was believed to be highly popular but also came under criticism from cycling and transport experts for discontinuity, narrow lanes, pinch points and inadequate junction treatments.
This is the latest in a string of botched public consultations and mis-spending of scarce cycling funds from the council. In the recent North Street consultation the most popular cycle route proposal was ignored and the council instead implemented a scheme that was not even included in the original proposals. Hundreds of thousands of pounds were then spent on a cycle lane on Madeira Drive that does absolutely nothing to connect residents, schools, shops and businesses and thus serves almost no purpose to cyclists in the City, and is blocked on most summer weekends due to tourist events.
We will report further on the scrapping of the Old Shoreham Road scheme following the Environment meeting on 25th March. Other NewsCycle counters are UK first for Brighton & Hove
Thursday, 11 February 2010 Brighton has been awarded funding to put cycle counters at the seafront cycle lane, opposite the Grand Hotel in early summer. This will be the first in the UK. More...Lewes Road Bike Train pilot starts in March
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Bendy bus hazard for Brighton & Hove
Thursday, 11 February 2010 London’s “bendy buses” are being decommissioned on the grounds that they’re dangerous and have encouraged fare dodging. These are now being sold off cheap, so Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company have trialled one on the 25 bus route to the Universities where the current bus service is at capacity. In our latest newsletter we look at the impact of these buses on cyclists on the Lewes Road. More...DfT releases cycling accident statistics
Sunday, 13 December 2009 Dept for Transport figures show a 19% increase in killed and seriously injured cyclists in the second quarter of 2009, compared to the same period in 2008. However, as the Government has acknowledged, cycling is increasing significantly with a 12% increase from 2007 to 2008 alone. More...
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