Campaign News

As part of its strategy development, Cheshire West & Chester Council is seeking ideas to inform its approach to cycling. A small group with a representative from each of the cycling groups local to Chester [More….]

Recently the Government called for evidence on ways both to its ambition to increase current levels of cycling and walking while also making cycling and walking safer – the Cycling and Walking Investment Strategy (CWIS) [More….]

After a long delay, Cheshire West and Chester Council have finally launched a new Active Travel Forum. The Forum is intended to take action to improve the levels of cycling and walking in the borough, [More….]

The Chester Cycling Campaign has been concerned to hear of a number of serious injuries caused to cyclists where deficiencies in the local cycling infrastructure have been a contributing factor. It has become clear that [More….]

The Campaign has produced a list of its objectives for 2018, setting out what we feel we can do to create improvements for Chester cyclists.  The list provides a clear focus for Campaign members who [More….]

Chester cyclists have been dismayed to discover that the canal towpath route through the city has been closed once again as of late November 2017. Chester Cycling Campaign has done some investigation about the closure [More….]

The Department for Transport has published road traffic casualty statistics covering the period from 2005 to 2016.  The good news is that no cyclist has been killed on local roads since 2013. Numbers of cyclists [More….]

In November 2012 a popular cyclist and pedestrian link was closed by the council following the collapse of a retaining wall on one side of the path. The path, known locally as ‘Rocky Lane’ or [More….]