Cyclists Touring Club

Right to Ride Network

www.ctc.org.uk         www.northhertsctc.org.uk

Dear all,

I have been invited to attend the launch of the North Herts Sustainable Community Strategy at the Community Conference on Monday 10 November. I was planning to attend but have just realised that I will be unable to do so.

Would anybody else be available to represent CTC / cycling interests ?

We need somebody to attend to ensure that:

b    Cycling is considered at all levels of local planning, so that it can become as natural and universal a form of local transport here as it is in the Netherlands.

b    NHDC feel that public consultation is a worthwhile and representative exercise.

The Community conference will be held at the Spirella building opposite Letchworth railway station. It starts at 6.30pm (refreshments served from 6pm).

North Herts District Council have been actively consulting the public on a number of strategies over recent months and we have been active in representing cyclists’ interests on them. We have attended conferences and workshops on the Sustainable Community Strategy, Transport Fundamental Services Review, and most recently, the Green Spaces Plan. You can read our follow up letter to the Transport FSR by clicking on the link above.

I’m afraid that I have not had time to write notes for the other workshops but we have followed a policy of supporting lower traffic levels by encouraging active travel, encouraging use of local services and local businesses, personal travel planning delivered at home, at work, and at major trip generators (eg rail stations). Also universal cycle training for school children, and promotion of cycle training for adults. Last, but not least, we would like to see the North Herts Cycle Network become more than just a distant aspiration.

More information on our recent activities can be found by visiting our Campaign page, and by following the links to our “Revolution” newsletter (look for the link in the top right hand corner of the Campaign page).

We need to confirm attendance no later than 30 October (next Thursday) so please have a look in your diaries and see if you could make this date. If you can, please contact me asap and I will either pass on the forms or fill them in for you myself.

Don’t forget, clocks go back this weekend which means that it is time for the Emitremmus (summertime reversed) ride. The forecast is dry but maybe a little windy. If you fancy a 63 mile ride through rolling Hertfordshire and Suffolk countryside then you can still enter on the day. Go to the Emitremmus page of our website for more information.

Regards
 
 
 
Alasdair DV Massie CEng MIStructE

CTC Right to Ride Representative, North Herts 01462 894219

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.