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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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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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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We asked the four parties who are represented on the current Council for their views on 6 specific cycle-friendly policies; here are the responses we received. To see the image more clearly, click the link for the full size document.
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Reduced speed limits of 20mph (or less) and providing traffic calming are popular in town centre and urban areas. They improve road safety and increase the attractiveness of walking and cycling, as well as making residential and shopping areas more pleasant. 20mph limits will normally need traffic calming and/or other physical measures to be effective. […]
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A Town of Three Boroughs You could be forgiven for thinking that the people who run Wokingham Borough Council may not think that the Reading Cycle Campaign has anything to do with them. But that would not be true. Thanks to the vagaries of local government reorganisation in the 1990s Berkshire was carved up into […]
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Dear RCC members, To Boldly Go I have lived for 40-odd years near the hospital and university and have cycled into town on countless occasions, but as far as I can remember, I had never gone via Sidmouth Street. So now that the council has converted the southbound lane into a dedicated and segregated two-way […]
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