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RCC Spring 2012 READING CYCLE Reading CAMPAIGN WORKING FOR A CYCLE FRIENDLY READING uk Cyclewww.readingcyclecampaign.org.Reading Spring 2012 No 116 Working For Cycle-Friendly Buses If you have not seen the video of the that if you work to reduce the many Contents Bristol Bus driver deliberately mowing minor incidents and near misses at down a cyclist then take a look the bottom of the pyramid then this (www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england- reduction will inexorably work its 1 Working for Cycle-Friendly bristol-17066798 or just search for way through the whole range. Buses ‘bus driver mows down cyclist’). The There is anecdotal evidence of 2 Campaign News driver got 17 months for the incident numerous low level incidents with that occurred in 2011. 5 Other Cycling News bus drivers in Reading not giving due Thankfully this sort of incident is care and attention to cyclists. Perhaps 6 Chairman’s Letter extremely rare. However, it is some of these incidents are due to 8 Pedal Powered Technology common in industry to consider frustration when a bus driver cannot 9 AGM accidents as a pyramid: with many get past a cyclist on a narrow road, Bike Week near misses and non-harm incidents but whatever the reason each minor West Berks Year of Cycling at the bottom of the pyramid, bangs incident increases the likelihood of a more serious accident and the bus 10 CTC Bike Rides Listings and bruises on the next layer and so on until you get the ‘killed or driver has the weight of metal on his 12 Contact Us seriously injured incidents’ at the or her side. Campaign Diary top of the pyramid. The theory goes continued on page 2 CycleReading Spring 2012 1 Campaign News Campaign News Reading Borough Council (RBC) Working For Cycle-Friendly Buses ...continued from page 1 We know that many cyclists can feel intimidated by buses. A few years ago our Annual General Meeting identified that one of our campaign themes should be to bring about a better appreciation of cyclists by Reading’s bus drivers. Our first attempts to set up a meeting with Reading Buses came to nothing. However a recent incident with a bus posted on the RCC’s Facebook page (facebook.com/ReadingCycleCampaign) (see accompanying picture) elicited a response from Reading Buses that they ‘would benefit from some specific tailor made training’ (on vulnerable road users). We have now entered a dialogue with Reading Transport’s Training Academy to discuss how training of bus drivers can best consider cyclists. Bike Week Cycle Tour! During Bike Week Reading Cycle Campaign will be Need your bike repaired? going on tour; not the Tour de France, but the Tour de Caversham. We want campaign members and Don’t have time or the anyone who cycles through Caversham to join us and show us what needs improving. tools to do it yourself? Reading Borough Council holds regular workshops to decide how to use their budget for improving Wheel building and truing a speciality. cycling infrastructure and we want your feedback so we can advise them on the best things to spend Contact Bob Bristow on that money on! Join us on Wednesday 20 June at 7pm at the Fountain next to Caversham Bridge (behind the hotel, next to the river). 0118 958 2056 We will finish at the Alto Lounge for drinks and for cycle repairs at a very reasonable price. more chat at about 9 pm. 2 CycleReading Spring 2012 Campaign News Local Sustainable Transport 6. Extend the cycle lanes on The police acknowledged that while Peppard Road through the refuge bike thefts are commonplace, they Fund Update island and investigate extending are not centred on any particular RBC has a £4.9m award from the the existing lanes to Lowfield area of town. Most bike thefts are Local Sustainable Transport Fund for Road and the brow of Bucking- apparently attributable to just a few schemes to encourage sustainable hamshire Drive/Peppard Road. miscreants; Thames Valley Police Campaign News transport choices, including cycling. 7. Consider permitting cyclists to reported that the effect of one Approximately £0.7m of this will be use the path at the end of recent arrest caused a dramatic used over the next 3 years for what Chiltern Road linking to Peppard reduction in the number of bike the Council call “Active Travel Road and minor changes to thefts. Intriguingly the police are Interventions”. These interventions improve connectivity. also now employing trap bikes to include design and implementation catch bike thieves. of locally agreed schemes as part of 8. Investigate adding cycle lanes on In London the Metropolitan Police cycle and pedestrian works. Lower Henley Road, Henley Road and Rotherfield Way. operate a campaign against A series of workshops are being held dangerous driving with a dedicated involving RBC and local cycle groups 9. Investigate whether cycle improve- ‘Roadsafe’ website where anybody to look at potential improvements in ments can be made to Highdown can report incidents of dangerous different areas of Reading. The Hill Road (NCN 5) in partnership driving to allow the Met police to second workshop took place on with Oxford County Council. increase intelligence on recurrent 31 January and looked at potential 10. Monitor speeds along Gosbrook offenders or locations. improvements in north Reading Road and if appropriate, arrange When asked whether Thames Valley resulting in the following measures for speed activated signs to be Police had any thoughts about a being taken forward: installed near the Westfield Road similar scheme in the Thames Valley 1. Investigate reducing the number junction. area, the officers stated that of southbound lanes on George 11. Improve the connectivity of cycle dangerous driving could already be Street (Reading Bridge) to one facilities linking to Westfield reported on the Thames Valley lane in each direction and Road Recreation Ground and Police’s website (www.thamesvalley installing cycle lanes on either Christchurch Meadows. .police.uk/reptcr/reptcr-repform side of the carriageway. .htm). We all encounter dangerous All but three of the above actions driving at one time or another so 2. Consider utilising the north-east involve investigation or consideration let’s try reporting it online and see entrance to Christchurch rather than a commitment to what happens. Meadows from George Street by actually make an improvement and White Knights Laundry to enable the Campaign will continue to We requested the Thames Valley cyclists to avoid the stairs on the monitor what actually happens over Police to consider how vulnerable west or crossing the road to the next year. road users could be better protected access the ramp on the east. from careless and dangerous drivers. On 15 May the third workshop gene- The response we received was as 3. Look into converting the north rated 37 suggestions for potential follows: side of Napier Road between improvements to south Reading Vastern Road roundabout and during a brainstorming session. These 1. Use cycle lanes where provided Kings Meadow Road to enable will now be sifted by RBC. 2. Comply with the Highway Code cyclists to join the Thames Path. The next workshop will be held in and the Road Traffic Act 4. Investigate proposals to amend July and will consider west Reading. 3. Wear high visibility clothing the R40 cycle route from Email any suggestions to 4. Use appropriate cycle lights Abbotsmead Place to Elliott Way. [email protected] This would also need to consider 5. Ride defensively Bike Thefts and Dangerous the Gosbrook Road/Prospect 6. Attend cycle training Street mini-roundabout. Driving 5. Increase/install cycle parking at At the quarterly Cycle Liaison Group which left us wondering if there was destinations along the R4/40/41 meeting held in April the Thames any onus on the police or the cycle routes, including Valley Police made a guest dangerous drivers? Caversham Library, Church appearance by special invitation. Street, Henley Road, Milestone Discussion by the group centred on Keith Elliott Centre and Sheridan Avenue. dangerous driving and bike theft. RBC Campaigner www.readingcyclecampaign.org.uk 3 Campaign News Wokingham Borough I’ve used bikes as transport since corridor. Keith Baker, the lead cycling 5 miles to secondary school Councillor for Transport, expressed Council (WoBC) when I was growing up. a desire that more journeys would We’re pleased to announce that a be made by alternatives to the car. After university, I lived in Campaign News new volunteer has taken over our Copenhagen for a while and that I wrote to Councillor Baker campaigning in the Wokingham confirmed my view that bicycles supporting his desire, but pointing district: a warm welcome from the make cities nicer places to live in out that the present dual assign- whole committee to . Peter Howe (www.copenhagencyclechic.com). ment pavements along the A329 Here is an introduction from Peter: I’ve lived in Wokingham for the last force cyclists to give way at all side 8 years and commute by bike to roads. They are slower than the work in north Bracknell. carriageway, less comfortable, more stressful and feel more dangerous. I’m keen to promote cycling as a They also encourage many drivers to safe, convenient and everyday way think that cyclists have less right to of getting round town and enjoying use the carriageway. the countryside. Do get in touch if Mr Baker did not acknowledge my you’ve suggestions about cycling in letter so I then wrote to my MP, Rob Wokingham. Wilson, who took the trouble to Peter Howe attend the MPs’ Cycle Safe debate. WoBC Campaigner He managed to get a response from [email protected] the Council’s Senior Transport Planner, but the response made no Another campaign member from attempt to answer the point that Wokingham (also called Peter!) has the A329’s shared pavements are also been fighting for better slower and more dangerous.
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