The Active Travel Strategy is out for consultation: https://haveyoursay.citizenspace.com/richmondecs/ats/consult_view/
There’s an awful lot in there, and we need your feedback, and to respond. You can read the PDF document here.
Highlights from the strategy, in no particular order:
- Banning loading in cycle lanes (“where possible”)
- Work on plans to encourage delivery and servicing by cargo bike / low emissions vehicles
- Focus on delivering properly for pedestrians
- Better dropped kerbs, smoother pavements that don’t bob up and down for driveways
- Link cycling as a way to get to stations and other hubs
- New segregated routes – Strawberry Vale
- New segregated routes – Kew Road (which will hoepfully link to CW9 eventually)
- Kingston to Teddington via Bushy Park
- Hampton Court Bridge to Kingston Bridge via the A308 – also properly segregated
- More bike hangars, more parking
- Make developers put in parking
- More contraflow cycling across the borough
- Better pedestrian crossings virtually everywhere, with a review of these
- Working with TfL to shorten pedestrian waiting at crossings
- A big low traffic neighbourhood plan
- Walking, cycling and buses as priority modes for the borough
We’ve started a Cyclescape thread with some discussion: https://www.cyclescape.org/threads/5008
And you can email us – info@richmondlcc.co.uk – or tweet us @RichmondCycling – or come and chat on Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/groups/richmondcyclingcampaign/