The Freewheeling Spring Cycle Festival will be this Sunday. The link Spring Cycle Festival 2013 has information about what is on. Last year the PCSOs were there to promote cycling safety.
Cycling in and around Abingdon is easy and fun because the roads around here are so flat but there are some roads where it could be made safer. The front page of the Herald last week had an announcement that the Department of Transport and Oxford County Council are spending £300,000 to improve cycling on the Wootton Road – a busy road where many school children go about on bikes.
In this video I saw a lot of road users moving into the path of others, and hazards like potholes and bumps that can throw a bike off course. None of them led to any accidents because others had time to anticipate and react in time.
I’m not even sure riding with a camera on the handlebars is legal but anyway here it is, possibly for the last time, …
OK as long as you are not holding it. Plenty of cyclists have cameras on their helmets (and for good reason), don’t see why handlebars should be any different.
However, it does also record the behaviour of the driver/rider ! Not sure about the right turn at Coxeters having undertaken the line of vehicles at a Red light. Also, when the white van drew up to the ‘T’ junction, you had just crossed a “Give Way” marking on the cycle track.
Also this Saturday (20th April) St. Nicolas school has its annual bike sale on the market place between 10am-1pm.
It is a good place to buy a second hand children’s bike, or sell off one that your child has outgrown. The school takes a cut of the price for school association funds.
£300k… it’ll cost them that much just to fix the existing potholes and broken tarmac that make up the existing cycle lane down the side of that road ! As well as that they need to remove ALL drain covers from the cycle lanes (as was done in Abingdon Rd in in Oxford where they were replaced with US style kerb drains). Its those things that really make a difference not grandiose projects or “cycle paths” full of dog walkers & joggers that stop at a junction every 50 yards.
I’m glad they fixed all the mega-potholes over Easter on the Barrow Road in Shippon between Faringdon Rd and Dalton Barracks though. That road was an absolute nightmare for months and months. Hope their repairs last this time.
Steven, any more info on the St Nicolas Bike Sale? Couldn’t find anything in the Abingdon Herald ” What’s On”
I frequently walk and cycle along Wootton Road. What bothers me is the adults who cylce along the footpath, when there is a cycle path on both sides of the road, for example past the shops just south of Trendell Place. And some of the skateboarding schoolchildren can be quite dangerous – not looking where they are going, and careering along at speed. Do we need a skateboard lane as well?