Herefordshire Council and Cycling
Cycle Hereford tries to maintain a 'critical friend' relationship with Herefordshire Council. We respond to consultations and comment on scheme designs.
We try to to resist the tendency of engineers and politicians either to lump pedestrians and cyclists together (depriving both road user groups of the space they need) or to restrict cyclists to narrow, uncomfortable and fragmentary margins of the road network. We emphasise the right of cyclists to use the road network in Hereford, and the duty of those who manage it to ensure that it is cycle friendly. We prefer slow progress in the right direction to reversals and dead-ends.
Herefordshire Council has a programme of cycle infrastructure schemes, many identified in a 1998 strategy for cycling in Hereford. It promotes cycling through information and training for children and adults. Recently it has created several web pages which give a very clear picture of plans and prospects for cycling in the county.
Visit the Herefordshire Council Cycling Pages here
We would be glad to hear the views of Hereford cyclists on the current programme and promotional activities. Please contact us at editor@cyclehereford.com or use the Contact Us page or use the forum.