Better by bike
As we mentioned in a recent post, Hampshire County Council and Winchester City Council are currently consulting on the Winchester Movement Strategy and Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan. The consultation is open for responses until February 11th. As always, we encourage Cycle Winchester supporters to respond, and today we …
The focus of this article is Winchester’s Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP). It’s fair to say we are disappointed in the LCWIP, and we think it needs improving. We have submitted a written response, and we’ve had a constructive conversation about our concerns in an informal meeting with Hampshire transport planners. At this stage we don’t feel it’s helpful to make our full response public, but we explain below the purpose of an LCWIP.
Cycle Winchester Mass Ride 5, taking place next Saturday, October 16th, falls just outside the main Winchester Green Week, which concluded on October 3rd. Still, we are pleased to share the common branding agreed for many of the Green Week events, in the lead-up to COP26, the 2021 United Nations …
As we feared, Hampshire County Council has chosen to remove existing, tranche 1, active travel schemes, and cancel the bulk of planned tranche 2 schemes. Cycle Winchester is asking HCC why. The evidence base for this decision seems flawed. To summarise the key points of the decision: Hyde Street is …
CW calls on HCC to implement new schemes in full, retaining temporary schemes in the interim Hampshire County Council this week published a recommendation to remove current Active Travel schemes in Winchester with no replacement in sight. This despite a clean sweep of positive responses to the public consultation held …