BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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Long Shoot Cycle Scheme: Seven months ago, told me that legal orders/notices should be advertised in the spring, but I've not seen anything. Has the timetable slipped again? I've asked new questions so hopefully we'll find out!

#warwickshire #a47 #longshoot #cycling #nuneaton #warwickshire_cc

Last updated 1 year ago

BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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Some very encouraging comments from @Warwickshire_CC's Portfolio Holder for Transport, that challenge the motorcentric voices (particularly in ) as the County Council approves its new Local Transport Plan.

fiets.uk/2023-07-26/council-ap

#warwickshire #cycling #activetravel #nuneaton

Last updated 1 year ago

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BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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A little off-topic video for you today, if you like your steam engines - the came through yesterday. Here it is departing the station on its return journey to London Euston:

youtu.be/fI2wowfQBqM

#60103

#lnerclassa3 #steamtrain #steamengine #nuneaton #flyingscotsman

Last updated 1 year ago

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BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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A new shared use path has been installed on part of Coventry Road, Nuneaton, as it approaches the Griff Roundabout. This has come about as part of the recent new development of a couple of industrial units – but given modern infrastructure standards, it falls short of what should have been built.

youtu.be/RRuK5u63uX8

#activetravel #warwickshire #nuneaton #cycling

Last updated 1 year ago

BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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Driver-cyclist collision in yesterday has resulted in serious but fortunately not life threatening injuries to the cyclist.

Lutterworth Road is long and straight with a 30mph limit, but it's easy to find faster drivers. It bisects the Whitestone area of town. Chetwynd Drive is one of three close-by residential through roads with some minor traffic calming.

No roads here have any provision.

coventrytelegraph.net/in-your-

#cycling #nuneaton

Last updated 1 year ago

BasicallyBenGB · @BasicallyBenGB
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Spent a tad too much money in 's newest record shop, Music Is The Answer, which opened this morning!

#vinyl #recordstore #music #nuneaton

Last updated 1 year ago

BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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Places like Amsterdam are reducing car parking provision over time to help tackle car dependency and nudge towards more sustainable transport choices.

Meanwhile, car-centric and decide to increase parking provision.

coventrytelegraph.net/news/loc

#nuneaton #warwickshire

Last updated 2 years ago

BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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Pity this abomination of an industrial unit had to be built on the opposite bank - annual panoramas from roughly the same spot show how it's changed from 2021, to 2022, and now. Hopefully foliage will grow to obscure this to some degree. But it's very noticeable on the skyline for miles around.

#panoramas #warwickshire #nuneaton #coventrycanal

Last updated 2 years ago

BasicallyBenGB · @BasicallyBenGB
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Blast from the past - The mobile phone shop in has gone (presumably) and the old BT Cellnet fascia has been revealed. Makes sense of course. Cellnet became BT Cellnet in 1999, which then became O2 in 2002. So this sign has been hidden for over 20 years.

#cellnet #btcellnet #nuneaton #o2

Last updated 2 years ago

BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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Stoney Road in is part of National Cycle Network Route 52, but look at the state of it! It's a difficult problem to solve being a private road, but it's one that needs tackling somehow as this is such a horrible space:

youtu.be/AsqHn8f9hOM

#ncn52 #ncn #cycling #nuneaton

Last updated 2 years ago

BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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ICYMI - A video and profile of Nuneaton's Black Track, a green corridor on a disused railway line in the west of town that has unrealised potential for active travel

fiets.uk/routes/blacktrack/

#nuneaton #activetravel #cycling

Last updated 2 years ago

BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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Beaten by a hill at lunchtime. Doesn't happen often, but Plough Hill Road in got the better of me - a sign of how bad my fitness is at the moment, I think.

Still, it was a nice ride out to the west of Nuneaton, including the Black Track - a pleasant disused railway path, but in real need of tarmacing to make it more suitable for year-round riding. My wheels were slipping all over the place in the mud!

#cycling #nuneaton

Last updated 2 years ago

Stephanie Jane · @stephaniejne
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If you're looking for a new-to-you and you're in the area (or can get there!), we've just put ours up for sale.

It's a B584 Classic from 2002 in good nick overall, but does need a little TLC

More info on its Facebook Marketplace listing m.facebook.com/marketplace/ite or ask questions here 😀

#motorhome #nuneaton #hymer

Last updated 2 years ago

BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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Last year they renamed of part of 's ring-road, formerly the Roanne Ringway, to Jubilee Way. Now Nuneaton and Bedworth Borough Council want to rename another traffic sewer, Coton Road, to King Charles Road.

Not only is this an ill-judged waste of money and time, massively inconveniencing residents and businesses whose addresses are affected (including themselves) but they don't even include the 'III' in the name!

#cotonroad #KingCharlesIII #nbbcouncil #nuneaton

Last updated 2 years ago

BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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Abysmal weather that left my shoes waterlogged today, but I did enjoy being part of a ride-about in to look at the National Cycle Network, the various problems, and to show how relatively small changes and improvements could make that much easier/accessible!

#NationalCycleNetwork #ncn524 #ncn521 #ncn52 #sustrans #cycling #nuneaton

Last updated 2 years ago

MikeFromLFE · @MikeFromLFE
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I'll be glad to see the new bus timetable in action between and .
At the moment the Arriva 158 and the Stagecoach 48L make a procession along the A47.
The new timetable spaces them out at 15 minute intervals.
It's only taken 20 years for sense to prevail, forced by the City Council bus back better plan.

This is the problem with bus - lack of customer focus until a regulator steps in

#leicester #nuneaton #privatisation

Last updated 2 years ago

BicycleBen · @BicycleBen
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