Skip to content
Home

Tag Archives: Cycling

Policing West-Central Cambridge April 2012 - Click for Full Article

Poorly located 20 mph signs on entering Maid’s Causeway.

On Thursday the 26th of April 2012 I observed Cambridge City Council’s West/Central area committee hold the police to account on their recent performance and set the new policing priorities for the area.
One of the key items under discussion was the operation of the 20 [...]

Fen Road Public Meetings - Click for Full Article

Wooden bollards between Water St. and Fen Road which kept getting sawn down have been replaced with metal ones.

On Tuesday the 20th of March 2012 at 6pm in the Shirley School on Nuffield Road another public meeting is to be held to discuss the problems associated with Fen Road in East Chesterton. The [...]

Friends of Midsummer Common 2012 AGM - Click for Full Article

Given its heavy use by cyclists and pedestrians this path across the common is a little narrow.

On March the 14th 2012 I attended the Friends of Midsummer Common’s Annual General Meeting. I am not a member of the group, but the meeting was open to the public. It was advertised in the Cambridge News and [...]

PCSOs Lack Powers to Enforce 20mph Limits - Click for Full Article

Prominent 20 mph signage, and traffic slowing pinch point, in Saffron Walden

It was well after midnight when Cambridge City Council’s Full Council, which had started on Thursday the 23rd of February 2011, reached a motion on enforcement of 20mph speed limits in the city.
The motion was proposed by Cllr Tim Bick, who is the [...]

Councillors Ask Police to Record Frame Numbers of Recovered Bikes - Click for Full Article

My bike locked up in Cambridge.

At Cambridge City Council’s West/Central Area committee on Thursday the 5th of January 2012 Cambridgeshire Police reported that they had a number of unclaimed bikes at Parkside police station which they had recovered from cycle thieves.
During the policing agenda item at the West/Central area committee members of the public [...]

Planning Application for Cycle Store in Front Garden - Click for Full Article

102 Hartington Grove, Including the Cycle/Bin Store

A planning application has been submitted to Cambridge City Council for a bike shed and bin store in the front garden of 102 Hartington Grove.
Comments are currently being sought on the application’s webpage.
As it is a retrospective application the structure in question is present in [...]

Council Vote Likely to Delay Station Cycle Parking - Click for Full Article

City Councillors Again Outwitted and Outflanked by Station Area Developers?

A vote held by Cambridge City Councillors earlier today (Wed 16th November 2011) will almost certainly delay the provision of the planned 3,000 space cycle park at Cambridge station.
Developers of the “CB1″ station area scheme are required to provide the cycle parking as part of [...]

Councillors Ignore Cycle Parking Policy Again - King Street Takeaway - Click for Full Article

60 King Street, Cambridge

On the 3rd of November 2011 I observed Cambridge’s West/Central area committee approve planning permission for a takeway on King Street. The approval, by the committee made up of all Liberal Democrats along with independent Cllr Hipkin, was in contravention of the council’s policy on the provision of cycle parking. Cllr Bick [...]

Cambridge Cycling Campaign AGM with Julian Huppert - Click for Full Article

Julian Huppert MP Drinking Tea/Coffee Before Speaking at the 2011 Cambridge Cycling Campaign AGM

I observed the Cambridge Cycling Campaign AGM on Tuesday the 1st of November 2011. Cambridge MP Julian Huppert was the guest speaker.
Key Points

The 1082 member campaign has been re-organised at the top. Martin Lucas-Smith, who previously led the organisation with the [...]

Planning Application for Sainsbury’s On Mill Road Rejected - Click for Full Article

The proposed loading bay for Sainsbury’s on Mill Road (Source p40 of the officer report to the meeting)

On the evening of the 25th of October 2011 I observed Cambridge City Council’s East Area Committee reject an application for a Sainsbury’s Local supermarket in the pool hall building at 103 Mill Road.
Key Points

The main reasons [...]