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Cycling as a New Year’s Resolution

8 December 2021AliceLeave a Comment

With the New Year fast approaching, you may be considering resolutions for 2022 and given the most common resolutions are No.1: To get more exercise/improve fitness and No.2: To lose […]

Cycle Paths on the Sulham Estate

8 December 2021AliceLeave a Comment

I was recently approached by Henry Scutt, the owner of the Sulham Estate, which lies to the West of Reading, asking if we were interested in helping to devise new […]

Narrow Cycle Lanes

8 November 2020AliceLeave a Comment

The width of cycle lanes (on carriageways) is often a matter of criticism and debate. We probably all agree that the wider a cycle lane the better, and that 1.5m […]

A Better Code for Cyclists?

8 November 2020Alice1 Comment

The Department for Transport ran a consultation from August to October this year seeking views on proposed changes to The Highway Code to improve safety for vulnerable road users, particularly […]

Wokingham Bikeathon

1 June 2019KeithLeave a Comment

Wokingham Bikeathon returns on Sunday 30 June. There are two routes planned which pass through many interesting and beautiful parts of Berkshire. Many of these are on calmer roads enabling […]

What’s all the fuss about with Vastern Road Roundabout?

21 March 2019Alice1 Comment

Why Protest About Vastern Road? The Protest Ride on Saturday is, of course, to call attention to the dangerous situation of Vastern Road roundabout. Whilst it is objectively one of […]

Interview with Cllr Debs Absolom

14 December 2017Alice3 Comments

The Newsletter Editor interviewed Cllr Debs Absolom to find out more about her and what she thinks about cycling issues. You have recently become the Chair of the Traffic Management […]

Chairman’s Letter, December 2017

14 December 2017Alice4 Comments

Dear RCC members, Right. I am going to start jumping red lights when riding my bike*. I have patiently sat at traffic lights waiting for them to turn green for […]

Reading, Wokingham and West Berks to get an LCWIP

14 December 2017AliceLeave a Comment

In 2017 the UK Government published its first Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy which sets out the Government’s ambition to make walking and cycling the natural choices for shorter journeys […]

Letter from SPOKES

14 December 2017AliceLeave a Comment

Dear Editor As co-founder of West Berkshire SPOKES with my wife Martha, I still receive your excellent newsletter RCC. But it pains me to see the position of ‘West Berks […]