Monday, September 13, 2010

Sustrans at the Skyride

Volunteers manned our stall throughout the day at the second Skyride Leicester.  12,500 people were recorded as cycling on the day and a good many visited the stall.  Leaflets about Sustrans were distributed alongside materials and maps provided by the local councils.  Most requested and most sadly missed item was the Leicester Cycling Map - this has been 'in production' for a prolonged period.
I have e-mailed the City Council reporting how many requests we had on the Skyride day but am still awaiting a reply.  Please mail, phone or send a letter to support our requests.
We learnt alot during the day - not least that we need paper weights to hold down the leaflets in the wind that sprung up in the afternoon.
On the whole a successful day for Sustrans and the Skyride organisers.  How lovely to see an event like this come to our city.  You may like to follow this link to see news, pictures and videos of the ride.
http://www.goskyride.com/city/details.aspx?cityid=6

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Signing on route 6

The plan to cycle and check the entire route through our area was rendered less necessary by the dedicated work of the local volunteer.  We did find some places however where we felt the need to add, or clean up a sign. 
Here Peter is cleaning up a sign in Watermead park that was also partially obscured by vegetation.














We came upon this sign that was hidden behind a cherry tree.  The owner of the house was adamant that he didn't want his tree lopped so we found another solution and hopefully kept a member of the public on our side.
the problem -









and the solution -

Wednesday, August 25, 2010

John Woodward completes renumbering of route 70 to NCN 50


With his two sons John has spent 4 days renumbering the route using about 220 route 50 stickers. Each sign needed cleaning and he even returned to a wobbly sign to cement it properly into the ground.
He also produced a 20 point document of required improvements to the existing signs which has been taken up by Patrick.

A huge amount of work by John.

Saturday, July 24, 2010

Meeting 26 April 2010

To kick start our blog here are the pictures from our meeting at the Friends Meeting house in April.

I hope I haven't left anyone out.