With a few weeks to go, April’s Wokingham Kidical Mass looked like it might not happen… The April ride was planned to coincide with the national Safer Streets Now (SSN) action day on 20 April. This gave us the benefit of cycling in support of two great causes (Kidical Mass and SSN), but meant we […]
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One Year of Kidical Mass in Reading Kidical Mass Reading had its first ride in April 2022. There were only three of us in the organising team, and only one of us had any experience of running rides. We’d fortuitously found a very enthusiastic group in Reading Cycle Campaign, which was where almost all of […]
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Kidical Mass Kidical Mass continues to go well. We run these sessions with Kat and her team in Reading and alternate months between Wokingham and Reading. Momentum is gradually building, and we are welcoming new people each month, whilst getting more regulars returning which is great to see. A good Wokingham Kidical Mass event took […]
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Wokingham Borough Council (WoBC) is taking delivery of two electric cargo bikes, which can carry loads for delivery, in January. Wokingham want local businesses to trial them to see if they would be able to use them instead of vans. E-cargo bikes are cost effective: Consider how much you could save on fuel, maintenance, taxes […]
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Wokingham Kidical Mass The inaugural Wokingham Kidical Mass took place on Saturday 13 August at the peak of the August heatwave with temperatures hitting around 35 degrees. Around 25 riders plus 6 safety marshals still braved the conditions for a ride around the town taking a roughly 2.5km circular route from Elms Field through the […]
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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 […]
Continue ReadingIt’s been an interesting few months for Active Travel infrastructure planning in Wokingham Borough Council, taking some tentative steps forward, followed by some stalling and now a serious risk that we are heading back to the starting line. If this makes no sense, then hopefully the following will clarify… Starting with a positive: it has […]
Continue ReadingI have to start by giving credit to Wokingham Active Transport Hub (WATCH), a group as the name suggests set up to promote active travel in the Borough. WATCH have been very effective in arranging meetings with and developing rapport with Councillors and in particular their officers as well as the outside contractors brought in […]
Continue ReadingAs Summer approaches and social restrictions continue to be lifted it seems like there is some light at the end of the tunnel that was a long and devastating Winter. It is nice to see more people out and about but compared to last year there do not seem to be as many cyclists and […]
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