
Everyday Cycling and Sustainable Travel Advocacy
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Council agree to replace inaccessible barrier
In May this year, Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council started shutting an inaccessible barrier across the access road to its Museum and Art Gallery/Registry Office and main town centre park, Riversley Park. This created an obstruction on a National Cycle Network route. Now, the Council have agreed to implement an accessible solution!

Draft Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan (LCWIP)
Warwickshire County Council has drafted new plan for walking and cycling – the LCWIP (Local Cycling and Walking Infrastructure Plan). I’ve taken a detailed look at the plan with a focus on Nuneaton and Bedworth (but with aspects relevant county-wide) and identified areas that need improvement.

Cameras for Cycling
Do you want to run cameras on your cycle? There’s a large variety of choice available, from the cheap to the expensive, static view to 360-degrees, and varying in quality and functionality. If you’re looking for advice on what to run on your cycle, take a look at what I’m running – this isn’t definitive,…

Foot and cycleway improvements planned – but what about standards?
It has been reported in the local news that following the acquisition of a small piece of land from Nuneaton’s George Eliot Hospital, the County Council will press on with developing improvements to a short length of path that will be able to better accommodate walking and cycling. But there’s a catch. According to the…

Does the new Bedworth Physical Activity Hub properly enable sustainable travel?
In the town of Bedworth, plans are well underway to replace its aging leisure centre with a new Physical Activity Hub, a new centre that will offer enhanced services with greater integration into its site on the edge of the Miners’ Welfare Park. With the design comes a stated objective to enable sustainable travel choices…

Lack of Cycle Routes Bites Bedworth
On Saturday 28 May, Bedworth Miners’ Welfare Park plays host to a ceremonial burning as an act of memorial and reflection on the losses caused by the global pandemic. The Sanctuary is a large temple-like wooden structure, intricately carved, and inscribed with handwritten messages of remembrance, and has attracted widespread attention. The event is expected…

Fiets Podcast 006: Trains Hate Fun!
Amazon launches e-cargo cycles for last mile delivery; free cycle hire during the Commonwealth Games; Warwickshire’s local cycling and walking infrastructure plan consultation; local thefts of cycles and scooters, and train services snub evening leisure users.