There has been little new development regarding cycling in the eastern area of West Berkshire in recent months. The last West Berks Cycle Forum was on Wednesday 19 May. We will report on the outcome in the next newsletter. PAWS (Pangbourne & Whitchurch Sustainability) has been in contact with WBC and Cllr Janine Lewis, the […]
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Pangbourne Station The Kidical Mass Reading organiser recently described her visit to Beale Park with her two-year-old son. https://twitter.com/KidicalMassRead/status/1622723372898570240. When she arrived at Pangbourne Station she was faced with a long, steep flight of steps, which you can see in the photo, together with the beautiful murals. These steps are a barrier to cyclists with […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingNewbury Station Train operator Great Western Railway has opened a new bicycle hub at Newbury station for 230 bikes, with capacity for another 100 by the end of the year. The £1.2m facilities, funded with the support of the Department for Transport and Thames Valley Berkshire Local Enterprise Partnership, will increase bicycle parking at the […]
Continue ReadingWest Berkshire Cycle Forum I attended my first West Berkshire Cycle Forum in October and I hope to raise the profile of the eastern part of WBC that makes up the western fringe of greater Reading. A large part of the meeting was taken up with discussion of the Emergency Active Travel Fund scheme that […]
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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 or as part of a longer journey. The Strategy sets a target of doubling cycle journeys by 2025. As part of the Strategy the Department […]
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