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.

Title: SCC at Eco Fair
Location: Central Library
Start Time: 09:30
Date: 2011-06-08
End Time: 13:00
Description: Southampton Cycling Campaign has a stall at the Eco Fair at the Central Library on Wed 8th June – offers of help, even if only for half an hour, welcome (9.30am – 1.00pm).

Also, outside the library will be the BIKE DOCTOR, so bring your bikes along and get advice/minor problems fixed. FREE.

Lindsi Bluemel

Title: Transport Short Films
Location: The Art House,  Above Bar
Start Time: 19:30
Date: 2011-06-03
Link out: Click here

Description: Transition Southampton present a series of inspiring short films (from www.streetfilms.org) which show innovative solutions to transport problems around the world. They will last a little over an hour in total. Come along and be inspired!

Ciclovia: Bogotá, Colombia – Every Sunday & holiday, every week, the City of Bogotá, Colombia closes down over 70 miles of roadways to cars and let people bike, walk, talk…

Physically Separated Bike Lanes – Physically separated bicycle paths exist in cities worldwide. This video explains what they are, how they work, and asks: “Why not here?”

Cycling Copenhagen, Through North American Eyes – While Streetfilms was in Copenhagen for the Velo-City 2010 conference, of course we wanted to showcase its biking greatness. But we were also looking to take a different perspective then all the myriad other videos out there…

PARK(ing) Day San Francisco 2006 – In San Francisco, the REBAR group organized a mass reclamation of automobile parking spaces to provide temporary green space for pedestrians to enjoy.

Summer Streets 2008 (New York City) – Feeling remarkably similar to Bogota’s Ciclovia, the New York City Department of Transportation held its first Summer Streets event on Saturday by opening 7 miles of city streets to pedestrians and bike traffic only.

Bus Rapid Transit: Bogotá – A look at the tremendously successful Bus Rapid Transit system which has revolutionized transit there.

Copenhagen Cargo Bikes – When you first visit Copenhagen, the first thing you’ll notice after being mesmerized by the sheer number of cyclists on the roads is the eclectic kinds of bikes, especially ones that carry groceries, baggage, furniture …

MBA: Highway Removal – A guided tour of past, present and future highway removal projects with John Norquist of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU).

London’s Do-It-Yourself Approach to Safer Streets – In the UK, the non-profit Sustrans is pioneering a community-based method to reclaim streets from high-speed traffic and make neighborhoods safer and more sociable places.

Doom rating: Zero! All films explore positive solutions to our cities transport challenges.

Where: The Art House, 178 Above Bar Street, Southampton, SO14 7WD.

When: 7:30pm, Friday 3rd June, 2011.

Entrance is by magic hat – pay what you can afford.

Best Regards,

Transition Southampton.

The latest newsletter of the annual celebration of cycling can be read here. Why not search for local events to join? Events listed in Southampton and Hampshire include:

Event	Location	Date
Back to Biking for Adults	Winchester	22 Jun
Back-to-Biking for Adults	Winchester	23 Jun
Club Night Road Ride	Andover	21 Jun
CTC Evening Leisure Ride	Winchester	22 Jun
CTC Leisure ride	Winchester	25 Jun
CTC More Bygone Railways Ride	Winchester	18 Jun
Cycle Cavalcade	Winchester	18 Jun
Cycling Clinic	Winchester	18 Jun
Dr Bike	Winchester	18 Jun
Easy Road Ride	Andover	24 Jun
Hayling Billy Ride	Southsea	26 Jun
ice cream ride	Portsmouth	20 Jun
Mini Fair	Winchester	18 Jun
Nuffield Wessex Bike to Work Week	Eastleigh	19-26 Jun
Nuffield Wessex New Forest for lunch	Brockenhurst	26 Jun
Opening of NCN 246, Andover, Vigo Recreation Ground.	Andover	18 Jun
Portsmouth World Naked Bike Ride	Southsea	10 Jun
Solent Coasts Cycling Challenge 2011	Lymington	25 Jun
Sotonia CC Cycle Slalom Challenge	Winchester	25 Jun
thomas ellis owen ride	Portsmouth	22 Jun
Time Trial Taster Session	Winchester	23 Jun
Trees tour	Portsmouth	23 Jun
Uni-cycle ride	Portsmouth	21 Jun
Winton Series 200 km	Winchester	26 Jun
Winton Series Challenge 100km	Winchester	26 Jun
Women-on-Wheels	Winchester	23 Jun
Women-on-Wheels	Winchester	24 Jun
World Naked Bike Ride – Southampton	Southampton	10 Jun

Access over 25,000 miles of walking and cycling network across the UK, anytime anywhere, with the complete National Cycle Network app. The free app is available from the iTunes store. Sustrans has created the app from their OS based online mapping facility and it has been specifically designed to help people make more of their everyday journeys on foot or by bike. The app has been funded by the Scottish Government and Sustrans.

Cycling Campaigners Lindsi Bluemel and Dilys Gartside have been championing the needs of Southampton’s cyclists and would-be cyclists for over a decade and this weekend saw their commitment and hard work recognised and rewarded. At the National Dinner and Awards Ceremony of CTC (UK’s cyclists organisation) held this year at Weymouth & Portland National Sailing Academy, they were presented with 3rd place Campaigning Achievement of the Year cup, a framed Certificate and medal. The ceremony was attended by 150 guests and the prizes presented by Magnus Backstedt, Principal for the UK Youth Professional Cycling Team.

The Campaign ride planned for 11th June has been postponed due to the earlier than anticipated start of the local Skyrides. It will take place in October, when the Skyrides finish. The 26th May evening ride to the Vine Inn in Bursledon to see King John’s Morris will take place as planned, leaving Woolston Station at 7.00 pm, returning 9.30 pm.

From June 4th several Skyrides will be taking place every Sunday, varying from three to thirty miles, and booking is now open on the Skyride website.

You may have seen this report in the Echo regarding Lee Lane:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/9024641.Trial_closure_of_rat_run_to_Romsey/

It gives details of an experimental closure of part of Lee Lane to test the effect of traffic reduction on use by cyclists and pedestrians. I suggest that as many of us as possible use it and get counted in the trial period Mon 16May – Sun 29May. Please forward this information to any others who you think may use the route.

Update – 14 May 2011

I have been told about the experimental closures by TVBc Transportation planners.

It would be good for users to write to TVBC supporting the closures if they think them beneficial.

With my Sustrans buddies are after Lee Lane be part of a continuation of NCN 246 Test Valley trail from Kintbury in Berkshire to Eling.

The NCN 246 route is being waymarked over the downs from Berkshire to Hurstbourne Tarrant, then on quiet lanes/rail trail to Andover-Stockbridge -Romsey .

After Romsey we want to go alongside A27 and down via Lee lane to Redbridge en route Eling.

The concept for NCN246 is similar to the Test Way which is for recreational walking between Eling and inkpen Beacon .

If one cycles between Mottisfont and Andover along the old railway line route and lanes it is very pleasant.

There is to be an NCN 246 opening event at Vigo Road recreation ground Andover on 18 June, in conjunction with the sports fair there that day, all south Hampshire people welcome to attend.

The event is listed on the Bike Week web site.

Eric Reed
Sustrans South Hampshire Volunteeers Group Coordinator.

Title: Portsmouth Cycle Forum Meeting
Location: Portsmouth Guidhall
Description: You are cordially invited to the next meeting of Portsmouth Cycle Forum on Thursday 12 May at 7pm in Portsmouth Guildhall.
This month we will be having a report from the Velo-City conference held in Seville in March.
We’ll also have an update on the Local Sustainable Transport Fund bids by Portsmouth City Council and Transport for South Hampshire. The LSTF is a Government sponsored programme to reduce carbon emissions and boost economic activity in cities and towns.
Finally, we want to hear from you about your priorities for the Forum. What do you want us to do?
The meeting starts runs from 7-9pm in meeting room 1 at Portsmouth Guildhall.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-05-12
End Time: 21:00

BTP Inspector Mick Morriss said: “Officers investigating each of these ten cases have made enquiries, followed up numerous leads and circulated the images on police intelligence systems in a bid to identify these people, but to no avail so far.

“We are now asking for the public’s help to identify these twelve people. If you know them we want to hear from you.”

Insp Morriss added: “Unfortunately cycles are a popular target for thieves but there are several steps people can take to ensure their bikes are adequately marked and secured to help reduce the risk of becoming a victim of bike theft.

“The best thing to remember is to register your bike and also to ensure a solid lock is used to secure it. If a bike is adequately marked, it makes it much easier to identify and therefore reduces its desirability to thieves.”

BTP officers regularly conduct cycle crime awareness surgeries at stations across Hampshire and other southern counties to offer crime prevention advice and each fortnight identify the top locations for bike theft, targeting them through covert and overt policing operations to catch would-be offenders in the act.

Insp Morriss added: “We will continue to work closely with South West Trains to proactively tackle cycle crime and passengers should report any suspicious behaviour to a member of staff or police.”

Anyone with any information about the incidents or who recognises anyone pictured in the CCTV images should contact British Transport Police on 0800 40 50 40 quoting reference B9/LSA of 3/5/11, quoting the photograph number.

Police advice for making your bike more secure:

• Get your bike tagged and register it at www.immobilise.com
• Ensure you have a solid lock
• Always lock your bicycle through its frame, not just through the wheel
• Fix your bike to solid, immovable objects in recognised cycle storage areas
• Whenever possible, lock your bike in a busy, well-lit and CCTV-covered area

For further police advice on keeping your bike secure, email ls-cr@btp.pnn.police.uk.

Title: Ride to the Vine Inn, Old Bursledon
Location: Woolston Station
Description: With the lighter evenings we will be organising some evening Campaign rides. The first will be a ride on Thursday 26th May to the Vine Inn, Old Bursledon, where King John’s Morris will be dancing. We will leave from Woolston Station at 7 pm and return at approximately 9.30pm. Lights advisable. For more information, contact lindsibluemel @ hotmail.co.uk
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2011-05-26
End Time: 21:30