Southampton Cycling Campaign

Welcome to the website for Southampton Cycling Campaign. Here you will find information about us and our strategy as well as information about cycling in Southampton. Members of the campaign range enormously from occasional cyclists to daily cycle-commuters and their views can vary accordingly. However, all are committed to ensuring that cycling is a viable option for transport and leisure throughout the city. If you are interested in finding out more about these campaigns or can offer some support, please contact us. We meet on the second Monday of every month (except August) upstairs at the Friends Meeting House, Ordnance Road (map). Enter through the side door. Meet at 19:30 for tea and biscuits, with business from 20:00. Everyone is welcome.

The latest newsletter (February 2010) is available for download in [pdf] or [MS Word] formats. Highlights of this issue include:

• Forthcoming events
• February campaign meeting
• Advance notice of our AGM in may
• Thoughts on Southampton LTP with regard to cycling
• Motorbikes in bus lanes?
• Southampton city council road traffic orders
• Twenty is plenty
• Bassett rights of way
• Hamble shore path update
• CTC/Cyclenation spring conference
• Police tell children without hi-viz to walk

From: Warsashcats
Subject: CATS Campaign Update
Hello Everyone,

We are continuing to get many emails of suppport for our campaign, thank you to all of you. Sorry we couldn’t reply individually to you all. We are featured again in this month’s Western Wards Gazette so we are anticipating that this will generate further support.

As you know we believe that cyclists have a right to use the path, through long established use. We met with officials from Hampshire County Council earlier this week to determine the best way to get our rights recognised and are investigating a number of options:

1. Statutory designation of the path as a restricted byway
2. Common Law recognition of the right for cyclists to use the path
3. Designation of the path as a cycle track under the Cycle Tracks Act 1984

All of the above will take time. A quicker approach may be to seek a voluntary designation of all or part of the path, but this would require agreement from the landowners. We have been contacting landowners along the route and so far they have been very supportive – there is only one that we know of who is opposed to cyclists using the path and he also seems to be against joggers and pushchair users!

The council officers are at the moment gathering information about the route. This includes the views of the local landowners and the history of cycling the route as shown by the user evidence forms. IF YOU HAVE NOT YET COMPLETED A USER EVIDENCE FORM PLEASE DO SO and send to the Rights Of Way department in HCC.

We are also gathering what other information we can and passing it on to HCC. Related to this there was once a building along or near the path called “Captain’s Cottage”. Does anyone know where this was?

For all those who are continuing to cycle along the path can I ask you to please show consideration to other users. The last thing we want at the moment is to antagonise any of the local landowners or pedestrians who are currently being very supportive.
Also if any of you are challenged or anyone tries to obstruct or prevent you from cycling (or jogging) would you please let us know?

Thank you again for your support,

CATS

Title: CTC/Cyclenation Spring Conference
Location: Portsmouth
Link out: Click here
Description: Portsmouth is hosting the CTC/Cyclenation Spring Conference on Saturday 17th April. More information will be on our website in the New Year.

As the Forum is very involved in the Conference organisation we do hope to see as many of you as possible at the Conference – the theme is ‘Future Cycling Cities’.
Date: 2010-04-17

Title: Family Frostbike Cycle Ride
Location: Gosport
Link out: Click here
Description: Portsmouth Cycle Forum members will be taking to the cycle routes of the Gosport Peninsular on Tuesday 29 December for a Family Frostbike Cycle Ride. Here’s the itinerary:

* Assemble at the Ferry Gardens in Gosport (next to the ferry pontoon) at 10am
* Travel using on-road and off-road cycle routes via Gosport Station, to near Rowner, Stubbington and through back roads to Hill Head.
* Refreshment stop (either Visitor Centre or Osborne View PH).
* Return along coast road to Lee-on-the-Solent (Solent Cycles on seafront for emergency repairs!).
* Carry on towards Stokes Bay but with optional loop to Gosport BMX track.
* Stokes Bay seafront then cycle path on old railway line back to South Street and ferry.

We aim to finish between 1pm and 2pm. Ferries leave Portsmouth and Gosport every 15 minutes (www.gosportferry.co.uk)
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2009-12-29
End Time: 14:00

The latest newsletter (December 09) is available for download in [pdf] or [MS Word] formats. Highlights of this issue include:

• Forthcoming Events
• December meeting
• Climate Justice rally
• Christmas social & quiz
• Hamble path
• London Rd
• Local Transport Plan
• Mybikelane.com
• Small Ad
• Not in my back yard
• DIY Streets
• Academic calls for change in policy
• The Daily Mail on the Brompton

Title: Green Nests Community Bazaar – A midwinter celebration of green living
Location: Pavilion on the Park, Aviary Estate, Kingfisher Road, Eastleigh, SO50 9LH
Description:

• Prizes from Cyclechic: five free pairs of Knog cycle lights!
• 700 FREE Home Energy Audits and Energy Performance Certificates to give away from eaga ltd
• Find out about Eastleigh’s new clean green car club Common Wheels and see the car
• Bring & take shop – bring your unwanted quality goods and take away what you want
• Advice on energy saving measures, grants, non-profit loans and benefits
• Free environment film club
• ‘Scrapstore’ creative workshop
• Stands from the local Fairtrade organization, Greenpeace, Eastleigh Transition Group, Atlantic Housing and more
• Games, competitions, refreshments

Start Time: 10:30
Date: 2010-01-30
End Time: 15:30

Hi All,

I will be at Somerstown Fire station in Somers Road North , opposite Somers Park Primary School, breaking and making bikes on the following dates.

Anyone who wants to come along and help or get involved or recycle a bike or just stand around and make jokes (tea perhaps) please feel free.

I will be there from 10am to 2pm, lunch is provided for productive workers.

Alternate Saturdays
9th January
23rd January
6th February
20th February
6th March

I am really in need of people with bike maintenance skills and any of the trained people would be fantastic.
Although all interest will be appreciated even if you only know someone that would like to recycle a bike of their own or you want to use some tool to try and learn about bikes by taking one apart….

Any questions contact me below
Thanks and regards
Jayne

Jayne Rodgers
Sustainable Transport Officer
Traffic Safety and Sustainable Transport Group Civic Offices
PO1 2NE
023 9283 4590
FAX: 023 9283 4214
jayne.rodgers@portsmouthcc.gov.uk
www.portsmouth.gov.uk

Title: 2010 Isle of Wight Randonnee
Location: Isle of Wight
Link out: Click here
Description: The Wayfarer Cycletouring Club is pleased to announce that the 2010 Randonnee will take place on Sunday 2rd May. The IoW Randonnee was established by the Wayfarers in 1985.
Free Entry. Any donations welcome.
Register on the day. Pre-registration will again be available for selected checkpoints, but not required. You are welcome to leave your contact details on our web site here
All checkpoints are open from 9 a.m.to 6 p.m. You may find that checkpoints are open a little earlier or later, but remember that people at the checkpoints are volunteers and can’t be expected to be there at dawn!
Start Time: 09:00
Date: 2010-05-02
End Time: 18:00

This article by a cycling QC is a calmly rational, yet quite devastating indictment of the way ‘Car Culture’ has stacked the legal odds against cyclists and in favour of motorists.

Eight minute trailer, for a new 55-minute documentary. The film follows two groups of young women from Darlington and Bremen as they discover what stops teenage girls from cycling. You can read all about the project on the Beauty and the Bike website.