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Cycle in Style Ride
A total of 28 riders took part in this years ride. Starting under the big screen on Vicar lane with tea and coffee provided by Vintage Tea Rooms. The Vicar Lane management closed off the centre of Vicar Lane creating a cycle lane for the ride to depart along!
The ride paused at the Tapton Lock Festival and then returned to town.
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TPT/canal towpath closure
The towpath is closed between Constitution Hill footbridge and Hall Lane bridge in Staveley to enable works to reinforce the bank which has been eroded by several overtopping events. The closure will run until the end of the September.
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Printed Newsletter
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3 rides for your diary
Sunday 1st August – Inclusive Pedals Community Cycle Club led ride around the ‘6 Parks’ route. Leaving from the Queen’s Park car park (off Boythorpe Road S40 2NF) at 11.00am. All welcome but please sign up with a free Eventbrite ticket to let them know how many will be on the ride.
Friday 6th August – Friday Night Ride, the theme for this one is ‘exploring Brockwell Lane’. No booking required, just turn up at the town hall steps for a 6.00pm departure.
Saturday 11th September – Cycle in Style, meet on Vicar Lane under the big screen from around 10.30am for a departure shortly after 11.00am. There will be drinks from Vintage Tea Rooms available and a stop at Tapton Lock before finishing back in the town centre. Everyone who signs up with Eventbrite will get a free drink at the start.
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Election Results
We await news of the ‘active travel’ fund and whether the east-west route will go ahead once the newly elected county council returns.
The Crow Lane section was opposed by Dean Collins (Labour) and Jack Woolley (Conservative) who were both elected for their constituencies.
The Chatsworth Road section was opposed the the previous county councillor John Boult (Conservative) and the prospective (Labour) candidate Steve Lismore. Interestingly about 100 votes went from Conservative to Lib Dem meaning the Lib Dem candidate was elected. The Labour vote fell by around 200 from the last election. Our Campaign has 35+ members in the ward covered by Chatsworth Road, perhaps the two candidates opposition to the route made a difference!
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County Council Election
We have contacted the major parties (Labour, Lib Dem, Conservative & Green) sending them a link to online questions asking about their support for cycling and asking individual candidates to reply.
We have received replies from the candidates below. Clicking their name links to their reply.
Darren Yates (Green) Birdholme
Steve Lismore (Labour) Walton & West
Simon Geikie (Green) Walton & West
Dean Collins (Labour) Brimington, Hollingwood & Tapton
Marion Thorpe (Labour) Staveley North
Ludwig Ramsey (Labour) Spire
Paul Niblock (Lib Dem) Walton & West
By the way, we asked them to estimate how many cycle journeys were recorded on the station link each day in 2020. From data supplied by DCC it varied between a low of 120 in the winter and a max of 250 in warmer months.
John Boult (Conservative) Walton & West – in a personal email reply to our secretary (and to another of our members) he states that he is opposed to the Chatsworth Road section of the East West route and believes the ‘active travel’ funding would be better spent elsewhere in Derbyshire.
You may also be interested in reading about opposition to the route by Chesterfield Civic Society Cycle-superhighway-emails-late-April-2021-1 and Labour candidate Steve Lismore’s leaflet opposing the route Lismore propaganda
Here is a link to a FOI request in which the reply from Derbyshire County Council states who was consulted and what roads received a letter DCC-FoI-response_001
On the other hand Ludwig Ramsey (Labour) will ‘reprioritise road, footpath and cycleway projects’ ludwig Ramsey propaganda
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Derbyshire Cycle Map
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East – West Cycle Route
The online consultation started today (8th March) for the proposed route from Holymoor Road to the Royal Hospital. Lasting just over two weeks it is really important to make your views known. Our Campaign supports the proposals with one or two minor tweaks and hopefully you will too!
https://chesterfieldcycleroute.commonplace.is/
It is important to comment on each portion of the route.
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Railway Station Masterplan
The consultation on the masterplan is now live and you are urged to give your views!
Our Campaign is disappointed by the poorly designed cycle infrastructure proposed and lack of connectivity outside the area of the masterplan:
- Approaching from the south cyclists will have to cross 4 vehicle entry/exits to get to the station
- The advisory cycle lane coming into the station from Brimington Road will disappear with no alternative provided initially
- A shared path provided on the south side of Malkin St which should be segregated.
- This shared path ends at the Brimington Road roundabout putting cyclists back on the road in a dangerous position.
- No thought of connections towards the Trans Pennine Trail, College or Stonegravels Way
You can view the proposals in a virtual consultation room which can be visited here https://chesterfieldstation.consultation.ai/ and fill in the response survey here https://aecom.researchfeedback.net/ChesterfieldRailwayStation
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Clowne Greenway
Many of our members will have cycled along this trail between Woodthorpe and Creswell. We’ve just been sent the cycle counter stats for 5 months from 1st Sep to Feb 2021. Fantastic usage being recorded, its really important that Derbyshire County Council know that there is support for creating new trails, you can let them know your support by contacting the officer here.
There is a Facebook page for the greenway here