The Spring 2025 RCC newsletter pdf is now downloadable from the Newsletters page, or you can also click on each article to read them separately. In this issue we talk about: Guidance for Safer Cycling There has been a lot of media attention on the proliferation of illegal e-bikes. Some of this attention (including the recent Panorama […]
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Funding The good news is that Reading Borough Council has been awarded £838,604 in Active Travel Fund (ATF) grant from the government. At the time of writing, full details of the funding and any conditions on how the money can be spent are awaited. The funding announced includes both capital funding to construct new schemes […]
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The West Berkshire Cycle Forum met on Wednesday 15 January. The next Forum will be on Wednesday 16 April. If there are any matters you would like raised at the Forum, contact wbc@readingcyclecampaign.org.uk Pangbourne-Purley Cycle Path: WBC is chasing contractors for a quote relating to vegetation cutting for a proposed topographic survey in the rural […]
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Active Travel Funding (ATF) Wokingham Borough Council (WoBC) has been allocated just over £862k, with around £170k allocated for revenue (planning and consultancy costs) and £691 allocated for capital (implementation of schemes). There has been no confirmation on what this money will be used for. Woodley to Reading Active Travel Route Design for this scheme […]
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The Reading Cycle Campaign started out in late 1982 and the cost of annual membership at that time was £3. Remarkably, the membership fee has not increased since that time – which may be some sort of world record for non-inflation over a 42 year period. However, for the Reading Cycle Campaign to continue, we […]
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Who Needs a Sleigh? Neither flood nor frost was going to stop Santa from keeping the most important event in his calendar (apart from Christmas Eve, of course) – the annual Kidical Mass Reading Christmas ride. My father-in-law usually comes along to our rides to cycle with our five-year-old since my partner leads the ride […]
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Dear RCC members Several threads seem to have come together recently which have focused my attention on a problem I feel needs much wider publicity and discussion. These all congregate around the issue of how we make the best use of the limited resources which are available for the promotion of cycling and other sustainable […]
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Dear Joe Edwards, Thank you for your email received in the Office of the Police and Crime Commissioner (OPCC). I would like to provide you with some information with regards to how Thames Valley Police (TVP) are dealing with the illegal use of both e-scooters and e-bikes and the current position of the Police and […]
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Good day and thank you for taking the time to read this post. I’m a member of Pass Wide and Slow, a UK-wide campaign group dedicated to improving safety for horses and their riders on the roads. Sadly, last year in the UK, approximately 100 cyclists, 87 horses, and four riders lost their lives due […]
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I learned to cycle 70 years ago in the Chiltern Hills. A few years later my dad decided it would be good for two teenage boys to move to a flat in High Wycombe, but at weekends you’d still find me cycling along the beechwoods’ quiet leafy lanes instead. Thanks to a dream job in […]
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