Cyclists Touring Club

Right to Ride Network

www.ctc.org.uk         www.ctcnorthherts.org.uk

Dear all,

The latest edition of our “Revolution” newsletter is available to download from the CTC North Herts and Stevenage website here. You can also download previous editions by going to the Campaign page. For those on the respective discussion groups, a copy can also be found in the file space of the Cycle Hitchin and Cycle Herts groups.

We hope that you will find our campaign newsletter interesting and thought provoking. While we try to keep the focus of the newsletter local, we could not resist another article on our world beating Olympic and Paralympic teams. We hope that you will forgive the indulgence and join with us in celebrating their triumph.

Closer to home we have plenty keeping us busy. There is the new shared use underpass and associated cycle provision in Royston where we have enjoyed a productive dialogue with our County Engineers. Much less happy has been the shameful attitude towards cycle access at Hitchin Station - lessons of a decade ago have not been learned and a dangerous, unusable scheme is being forced on station users.

In this issue:

b   Connect2 and the Royston Cycle Network (Stop press… not in the newsletter but the underpass construction has been put back by 12 months in order to sort out land ownership issues).

b   Hitchin Station 

b   Cycling Champions

b   People who live on busy roads have less friends

b   Personal Travel Plans and Rail Commuters

b   Reasons to Cycle – Congestion 

b   How to Cater for Cycling on British Roads

b   Getting Started – don’t get caught out by nightfall

b   Easy Riding – rubbing brakes

b   Gold Rush 

b   Wasted talent

b   Coffee Room Myths - “Cycling is slow” 

b    Good Examples - the “Cycle Plug”

Please contact us with any questions or concerns.

Alasdair DV Massie CEng MIStructE

Alasdair_massie@...

CTC Right to Ride Representative, North Herts

CTC is Britain’s largest cycling organisation with 70,000 members. Formed in 1878 we have actively campaigned for better, safer roads, locally and nationally since our inception.

We have a large and active section for Stevenage and North Herts.