Sun 16th June 2013: 10.30am. Bike Week Event: Pedalling Picnic from Congleton Town Hall to Biddulph Grange Country Park via the Biddulph Valley Way, at a leisurely pace. Lycra not essential! Find our stall at the Food and Drink Festival and sign up to come along. Bring your own picnic – toilets and usually hot drinks on sale at the country park. Children must be accompanied by an adult. Back in town for about 2pm for time to enjoy the festival.
See you there….
The next meeting of the Congleton Cycling Campaign will take place on Wednesday 22 May at 19.30 at the Beartown Tap, 18 Willow St, Congleton, CW12 1RL (either in the back bar or the upstairs meeting room).
To discuss:
1 – The Congleton Food Festival and Pedalling Picnic.
2 – Suggested cycling routes in Congleton and funding sources for them.
3 – AOB
All welcome, members and non-members alike.
Where should we have our stand this year?
Usually it’s opposite the town hall, and handy for the start of the pedalling picnic. However we have the choice of Little St, with the Congleton Sustainability Group, or our usual spot.
What do you think? Any preference, and why?
Don’t forget our next evening meeting is on Tues, 23rd April at 19.30 in the Beartown Tap, 18 Willow St, Congleton, CW12 1RL (either in the back bar or the upstairs meeting room).
We’ll be planning the upcoming pedalling picnic (during national Bike Week), our participation in ParkLive in Congleton in July, and hearing about progress of various discussions.
See you there – the more that attend, the more bright ideas!
30 days of April – and every day is a possible cycling day…. Take a look at this campaign for cycling on every day of the month.
Sat 6th April 2013, meeting at 9.30am for our monthly gentle pedal along the lanes to the farmers’ market at Rode Hall. Return at lunch time, with a possible pause at a pub. Meet on the corner of Moss Rd and Canal Rd/Leek Rd, Congleton. All welcome, members and non-members.
Remember, it’s only £5 for a household to join the Congleton Cycling Campaign, and members receive 10% discount at the Cycle Centre in West Rd too.
Sat 2nd March, meeting at 9.30am for our monthly gentle pedal along the lanes to the farmers’ market at Rode Hall. Return at lunch time, with a possible pause at a pub. Meet on the corner of Moss Rd and Canal Rd/Leek Rd, Congleton. All welcome, members and non-members.
Apparently the funding came from the Forestry Commission as part of the aim of getting people to/into woodland. Thanks FC.
There has been a complaint in the local paper that the council should be filling in potholes not spending money on routes such as this, but as the funding came from elsewhere, it has not taken money away from road maintenance at all.
If any of you have walked/cycled along the Biddulph Valley Way (part of National Cycle Route 55) recently, you’ll have noticed the widened and resurfaced path up to the Cheshire/Staffs border. We noticed improvements to some sections last week but the work was still to be completed. The completed sections have eliminated the very muddy patches and places where puddles used to form, but in some places we noticed tyre marks and hoofprints, so hope the surface will remain serviceable with the high amount of traffic it receives.
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