RCC Cycling Infrastructure Competition We want your photos of ‘The Good, the Bad & the Ugly’ cycling infrastructure around the wider Reading area. So, start rounding them up and sending them in. Of course, there’s a Bounty… The winning entry in each of the three categories will win a £50 AW Cycles Voucher. Any non-members […]
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The Summer 2022 RCC newsletter pdf is now downloadable from the Newsletters page, or you can click on each article to read them separately. In this issue we talk about: Reading Lacks Properly Signed Cycle Routes Annual General Meeting 2022 RBC Summer 2022 Report WBC Summer 2022 Report WoBC Summer 2022 Report Other Summer 2022 […]
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Many of the cycle routes in Reading, in particular the town centre, are unsigned or incorrectly signed. The subject has been raised on numerous occasions to Reading Borough Council at Cycle Forum Meetings over many years, but little or no action has been taken to rectify the problems. This despite site meetings with Council staff […]
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Wednesday 17 August 2022 @ 7.00pm RISC, 35 London St (in the Main Hall). Vision for a Cycle Friendly Reading in 2030. After the formal AGM business we will be asking what cycle infrastructure we want our local Councils to provide. We will have Councillors present from both Wokingham and Reading Councils. Formal AGM papers […]
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Reading Borough Council (RBC) Again, little of consequence has happened over the last three months. Cycle Forum and CAST meetings should have taken place in late March or April 2022, but only the CAST meeting was held, with Air Quality being the only agenda item. A late change or correction to the meeting date gave […]
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West Berkshire Council (WBC) eCargo Bikes for Local Businesses New eCargo bikes are being offered to local businesses in West Berkshire to try out as part of a new environment scheme. This has been made possible from a successful bid that was submitted to the Department for Transport for funding via the Energy Savings Trust. […]
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Wokingham Borough Council (WoBC) What’s in a name? After May’s council elections, control of WoBC reverted from Conservative control to no overall control with the subsequent formation of a Liberal Democrat led coalition. At the first meeting of the new Council on 19 May it was announced that Cllr Paul Fishwick will become the new […]
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Active Travel Fund – Bath Road Next The Active Travel Fund (ATF) is the Department of Transport’s fund for local authorities to create Active Travel (walking & cycling) infra-structure. RBC has now backed away from its previous idea of raising transport funds by demand manage-ment (charging), so the ATF is pretty much the only show […]
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Dear RCC members, What a strange period we are living through. Nothing seems quite as it should be from the weather – what happened to April showers? – to politics, local, national and international. There have been high spots locally though. The two Kidical Mass rides that took place in April and May showed how […]
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I met Kat at Carter’s Steam Fair in late 2021. She was new to the area and looking to meet other parents who cycled. I was wearing a cycling jacket and balancing my toddler on my hip. Obviously, we were going to end up as friends. A few months later she announced that she wanted […]
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Bikes ‘n’ Bits is free to members who wish to advertise their bikes and accessories for sale. Two Bikes for Sale Seller: Brian Morley, tel: 07966476034 or email brianmorleyrdg@gmail.com. Collect from central Reading.
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