[Home Brewed] Making a Comprehensive Cycle Plan for Small Medieval City

[truobadourbicycle]

Hi All,

I am new to this forum but have spent some very enjoyable time reading the blog. It's great to find myself on a wavelength with the best cycling people in the UK! I am here to ask for advice so if there is a post I should read on this forum or anywhere else, links/etc would be very much appreciated.

I have for some time been exasperated by the terrible cycle infrastructure in Canterbury, UK, where I live, work and cycle. Recently, I have also rather lost faith with the lack of effective cycle advocacy here (although I hope to be proved wrong).

Meanwhile, placing hope against hope, I have suggested and received some interest in creating a "comprehensive cycle plan" for Canterbury. Of course, we are all new to it, so I'm posting here for anyone who would like to share examples of best practice both in terms of designing/improving cycle infrastructure and terms of putting together a low-level/grassroots kind of campaign. Failing all that, simply wish us luck!

Cheers,
Keep riding stay smiling,
Trubadourbicycle

[mjr]

I suspect www.spokeseastkent.org.uk would love some help in Canterbury. Through them, you could get access to Cyclenation resources about how to produce cycle plan maps and so on, as many groups have done, plus the "Making Space for Cycling" brochures also endorsed by CTC and others.

[MikeF]

I suspect http://www.spokeseastkent.org.uk would love some help in Canterbury.

I haven't heard of that group. Canterbury is a fair distance from me. Excellent comments from them on KCC's Active Travel Strategy
The very last line made me smile "KCC policy active travel will never be anything more thn the journey from the front door step to the car for most people."(sic). But unfortunately it applies to many other councils as well.

[mjr]

I suspect http://www.spokeseastkent.org.uk would love some help in Canterbury.

I haven't heard of that group. Canterbury is a fair distance from me.

Their sibling groups Maidstone Cycling Campaign and TWBUG may be closer to you.

[MikeF]

I suspect http://www.spokeseastkent.org.uk would love some help in Canterbury.

I haven't heard of that group. Canterbury is a fair distance from me.

Their sibling groups Maidstone Cycling Campaign and TWBUG may be closer to you.

Yes T.Wells isn't far away. A year or so ago one elderly TW driver told me that cyclists should be using the pavement as they hold up cars on the hills. He couldn't comprehend that parked cars were the reason the road was partially blocked - because cars need to park there.

[PRL]

This is an interesting way of approaching the problem :

http://www.cyclinguk.org/guide/make-tub ... le-network