Orchard Park to Riverside Cycle Scheme

I have been emailed with details of the possible Orchard Park to Riverside Cycle Scheme. This involves changes to the cycle route on Arbury Road from King's Hedges Road.

The changes would be on the stretch outside St Laurence's school, and on the stretch outside the front of The Manor.

The County are consulting on the proposals and would like comments by post, email or phone before Friday 10 December 2010. The results will go to the transport Area Joint Committee on 24 January 2011.

More details and a PDF of the leaflet and explanatory notes are available from the County Council's project website.

Gritting Cycleways Across The City

Whilst (hopefully!) the first hard frost in the city is still some way away preparations for dealing with severe weather are something the County Council needs to take very seriously.

Following on from complaints during last years severe weather (not to mention a number of accidents) the Liberal Democrats on the County Council raised this issue and we are pleased to announce that we have had some success: there will be some very limited gritting of Cycleways across the city for the first time this year, and rather than waiting 5 days and then gritting secondary routes, the routes will be gritted when a 5-day period of bad weather is being forecast.

However, despite a specially adapted gritter being commissioned for the new Guided Busway, the cycle-path right next to it will be left completely untreated.

It's disappointing that the Conservative-controlled County Council is doing the absolute bare minimum to support cyclists across the city - especially at a time when the City Council, County Council and even the Labour Government nationally are trying to get people out of their cars!