CategoriesFiles
Climate change is the biggest threat to continuing human life on this planet followed by the battle against blubber. Wolverhampton is sadly a major player in the Obesity epidemic and the venue of choice for BBC Midlands today to report on the related issues. Cycling is the best form of aerobic exercise that is non-load bearing on the joints. It's also a useful form of travel, cheap, pollution-free and visually stimulating. Documents and links highlight the issues in this section of the Archive
This section contains design guidance on cycle-friendly infrastructure, cycling on the highway and streets for people.  Documents held on this website and links to others on their own host site are used. Will these get read by local decision makers ? Let's hope that people designing and altering the Wolverhampton cycle network [ie all roads except motorways plus cycleways] include practical pedal cycle use in their designs. One side of Road Safety Section teaches vehicular cycling to the National Cycle Training Standards after all. Or do they really wish to win a WoWcc Chocolate Chain Ring or the shame of a Warrington Cycle Campaign Facility of the Month award ? Cycling deserves the best it can get for vehicular cycling and for nervous shared-use cycling to thrive. This section is for work that we admire by other people. There are e.g. notes on presentations given at Cycle Campaigns Network conferences or pieces by other CTC Right to Ride Representative, or cycling for Health articles. Sustrans Ranger Group 4036 Wolves on Wheels are well known for their survey reports. Here is the group's output on NCN route 81and the Wolverhampton cross-city report to date
If you're an official of WCC and you want some project ideas to help cycling in the borough look in here! Don't waste precious money on advisory cycle lane paint and signs just because it's nearing the end of the budget year when you could create much needed cycle parking and shortcuts!!
More 1.1 metre wide cycle lanes in Wolverhampton only make conditions worse and show a complete lack of imagination. Measures that give convenience, advantage and means of promoting Vehicular Cycling per the National Cycle Training Standards (taught by WCC's own cycling instructors) are the class of work we're seeking. Integration of Cycle Trips with light and heavy rail is of vital importance. A cycle trip of up to five miles coupled with either parking at the station or onward cycle carriage brings huge opportunities for travel. Wolves on Wheels produces the only cycling magazine for the city which it attempts to publish quarterley.
Following on from the WoWcc report on the Future Wolverhampton Cycle Forum, the Wolverhampton City Cycle Forum was formed in 2004. Its aims, minutes, and projects are recorded here.
In 2001 Wolves on Wheels members produced a full IHT Cycle Audit and Review of the route between Tettenhall village and Chapel Ash along the Tettenhall Road, Wolverhampton. This was a UK first for a cycle campaign group.
|
|


