Chesterfield Cycle Campaign

November 2011

The Campaign will hold its usual social event on Tuesday December 13th at the Crispin on Ashgate Road. Starting from 7.30pm, the Brampton Community Band will play and there will be food. We need to give numbers for food to the management by 3rd December so please let me know by then if you want to book.

A design is being worked up to complete a cycle path from Pottery Lane West to the Whittington Moor roundabout. I am meeting DCC staff next week to discuss.

DCC staff and Campaign members are meeting early in January to survey the Hipper Valley Route so that it can be fully signed in line with the cycle audit and the 'underground' style map produced by DCC - a network of colour coded routes across Chesterfield. After this first route Campaign members will do the rest of the surveys and putting up the signs, DCC will produce the signs.

Our newsletter editor, Nicola Peck, is making great strides towards producing our new Chesterfield Cycle Map. Hopefully it will be available in the spring. Members will receive a free copy.

The Campaign has also produced a series of four local ride leaflets, these are in the final stages of production and will be available shortly.

Transition Chesterfield have been running a series of bike maintenance workshops as part of their Fossil Fuel to Pedal Power project. The initial six sessions for 36 participants quickly filled up. There are now another three sessions for an additional eighteen people scheduled and are already almost filled.

The new 'Stonegravels Way' path alongside the A61 sprouted barriers a few weeks ago. Installed too close together they made accessing by bike difficult especially with panniers. One member contacted DCC to say they also contravened disability access laws. They have now been altered to allow easier access.

The Winter 2011 newsletter is at the printers and will start to be distributed next week.

Best wishes.

Alastair Meikle

Secretary