Funding boost for cycle path linking towns

8:34pm Sunday 27th January 2013 in News

A two-mile cycle path will be built after council officials suggested funding part of the project.

East Sussex County Council is expected to agree to give £50,000 to the project to build a cycle and pedestrian path between Lewes and Kingston.

If the funding is agreed, work could begin on the route as early as March and would be completed by the end of April.

Green transport campaign group Sustrans warned that there might be road closures and off-peak temporary traffic lights while the work is carried out but a final decision will be made by the project’s contractors.

The cycling charity was given £150,000 last year for the walking and cycling route but the project was estimated to cost £206,000.

The county council had previously declined the opportunity to fill the hole in the budget because it feared it would have to take funds away from highway construction projects.

However, members of its transport committee will now discuss a proposal to give £50,000 to the project from the authority’s 2013/14 capital programme for local transport improvements. Hearing off

Comments(12)

Hove Actually says...
10:44pm Sun 27 Jan 13

Why?
There is already a link between the two it's called the "road".

Just for arguments sake can anyone tell me how many people or cyclists have been killed or injured on this route in the last 10 years?

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Thetruthhurts101 says...
10:47pm Sun 27 Jan 13

Oh here we go, yet again cyclist have more right too the road than those that pay tax insurance ect, what about the pot holes that cause our cars damage, very good brighton and hove city council

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Ave that says...
11:06pm Sun 27 Jan 13

Feck them not our Fault they have to use bikes as cant afford a nice car..... Their problem not our lol

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HJarrs says...
8:41am Mon 28 Jan 13

Indeed, here we go again with the same old anti-cycling rubbish. No doubt you think opening a cycle lane is anti-car!

The UK has one of the lowest levels of cycle use in Europe and we need a tremendous increase in number and length of high quality cycle paths, cycle lanes and cycle parking. The people of Kingston will have the opportunity to cycle all the way to Brighton on reasonable cycle paths. The missing part of investment for ESCC is the section between Falmer and Lewes, which should be re-engineered to a higher standard.

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Crystal Ball says...
9:36am Mon 28 Jan 13

Shouldn't the need for more cycle lanes be dictated by demand? As we are a predominantly car-orientated country then the infrastructure of that (perhaps unfortunately) takes precedence.

Until a cultural shift is made/experienced/pro
mpted in cycle use a la The Netherlands then there will always be these kind of clashes.

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Sussex jim says...
9:41am Mon 28 Jan 13

HJarrs, do you ever get out of Brighton?
There is an existing well-engineered cyle path all they way to the start of the streets of Lewes where you can use quiet residential roads to access the town centre.
Apart from a few fanatics, hardly anybody outside Brighton WANTS to cycle.

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Atticus says...
10:51am Mon 28 Jan 13

This is good news. The more cycle lanes the better.

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salty_pete says...
11:21am Mon 28 Jan 13

I just wonder if there ought to be Cycle Watchers society, just as they have one for birds. Because actually seeing a cyclists use these specially funded lanes is quite rare. But if bird watchers are called "twitchers" what would a cyclist spotter be called? Answers on a postcard please.

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Fercri Sakes says...
11:42am Mon 28 Jan 13

salty_pete wrote:
I just wonder if there ought to be Cycle Watchers society, just as they have one for birds. Because actually seeing a cyclists use these specially funded lanes is quite rare. But if bird watchers are called "twitchers" what would a cyclist spotter be called? Answers on a postcard please.
You should've gone to specsavers. There seemed like more cyclists than starlings on Brighton seafront this weekend.

All the people who say they're against these cycle lanes should get off their armchairs and take a leaf out of the people protesting against the Bexhill to Hastings link road. That's being built for £100m which is 2000 times the cost of this lane but even so, I suggest that if you feel strongly then you should start building camps in trees and digging tunnels.

Or are you really not that bothered and just feel that some lazy anti-cycling rhetoric will gee you up on a quiet Monday morning. Each to their own, I suppose.

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billy goat-gruff says...
11:59am Mon 28 Jan 13

salty_pete wrote:
I just wonder if there ought to be Cycle Watchers society, just as they have one for birds. Because actually seeing a cyclists use these specially funded lanes is quite rare. But if bird watchers are called "twitchers" what would a cyclist spotter be called? Answers on a postcard please.
Funny how cyclists are invisible, until they jump a red light or forget to pay their 'road tax'!

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Sussex jim says...
2:32pm Mon 28 Jan 13

salty_pete wrote:
I just wonder if there ought to be Cycle Watchers society, just as they have one for birds. Because actually seeing a cyclists use these specially funded lanes is quite rare. But if bird watchers are called "twitchers" what would a cyclist spotter be called? Answers on a postcard please.
Sad.

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Thetruthhurts101 says...
4:22pm Mon 28 Jan 13

Ave that wrote:
Feck them not our Fault they have to use bikes as cant afford a nice car..... Their problem not our lol
In Lewes road they put a chilly cycle counting machine in, they soon took it down, when it wasn't counting enough!!! And besides its a bloody waste of money.

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