Active travel, health and the economy:
Investment in cycling and walking infrastructure pays back five times the cost! Says the UK government. In 2014. Claiming the Health Dividend report - click here.
So glad that LTP4 has now been approved by Hertfordshire County Council, prioritising active travel.
Next: South West Herts Growth and Transport Plan - your holiday reading! Please try and make a comment on this, a once-in-a-decade opportunity to affirm the need for investment in cycling infrastructure. The plan is to run to 2031. This will affect existing and proposed cycle routes between Hemel, St Albans & Watford, including -
Nickey Line north-south extension
A4147 cycleway
A414 cyleway Hemel - Park Street
A1081 cycle corridor Luton - St Albans
A405 cycleway
Grand Union Canal & A411 corridor
A414 J8 cycle bridge
Hemel magic-roundabout cycle bridge
Comment by 17 September. Link to the consultation web-page: https://www.hertfordshire.gov.uk/about-the-council/consultations/transport-and-highways/south-west-herts-growth-transport-plan-consultation.aspx
Campaigning work continues We meet with HCC and SADC engineers to discuss schemes and priorities several times a year. The campaign field we would most like to develop is commenting at an early stage on planning applications, with regards to provision of cycle routes and storage for cycles on the premises. We need members to help with this!
HCC Local Transport Plan, LTP4, has now adopted by the County Council. It includes pretty well everything we as a cycle campaign would like to see happen - reduced car dependency, more active travel, more public transport. A key feature is the need for County and District / Borough Councils to work together to co-ordinate inter-acting strategies. We are working with other cycling groups in the county on this and other issues, under the CycleHerts banner.
Here are the 'tube maps' proper name Cycling Network Quality Maps. They are diagrammatic picture of conditions for cycling, not a route-finding map. They are a work in progress, both in terms of assessing the network and - we hope and campaign for - needing to be updated as conditions are improved. They are based on the CycleBath format, and the idea is to 'turn the map blue'. Or green if looking at the St Albans city map. Three different map-makers, so three different styles. Feedback and comments very welcome.
This version extends further to include local villages:
Still relevant to ongoing campaigning - report on our
Public Rights of Way meeting:
2017 report Rights of way for cyclists v3.pdf
