Stratford Cycle Forum

We aim to promote and campaign for better cycling facilities for all cyclists within and around Stratford-upon-Avon.

[Bike Is Best @BikeIsBestHQ]

Nearly 60% of car journeys are under 5 miles. There's a better tool for the job. For short journeys #BikeIsBest

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

Magic trees...

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

What if I told you there was a single intervention we could deliver in our cities that would cool them during heatwaves, reduce flooding, scrub pollutants from the air, boost biodiversity, improve public health, and even reduce crime? You wouldn't believe me. But it's true.

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

To paraphrase Enrique Peñalosa:

A plowed and salted cycle track is a symbol that a child on a $30 bicycle is equally important as an adult inside a $30,000 car.

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

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[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

346 transport experts say walking, bikes and buses are the way forward. Not electric cars, not self-driving cars, not flying cars, and certainly not SUVs...

https://t.co/kOIorwmc8r

[Jon Burke 🌍 @jonburkeUK]

Do you ever look a some - many - European cities and think we've been conditioned in the U.K to expect that incredibly grey, car-dominated, and polluted cities and towns are as good as it gets? Because I do. Hard to believe there are peope fighting to keep things the same.

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

@ken2leam @Warwick_DC And how many people were involved in this from start to finally installing it and not one checked if you could actually get a bike through. 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

@ken2leam @Warwick_DC And that’s not even a cargo bike, tricycle or adapted bike. Can you imagine the uproar if they built a road bridge cars couldn’t pass through or a pedestrian bridge people couldn’t walk across.

[Adam Tranter @adamtranter]

Why would you want to revert to the status quo, Stratford-upon-Avon?

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

@Chairmanbenr @StratfordDC How did anyone walk down the M&S side of Bridge St during lockdown and didn’t think this has to be permanent now?
Do you think the people who make these decisions travel everywhere by car?

[Brent Toderian @BrentToderian]

If you’re a city that’s planning to remove infrastructure for safe walking & biking that was installed during #COVID19 because “the pandemic is over” (it’s not, not by far) or because of “public outcry” from drivers, that’s the opposite of good leadership. It’s bad following.

[Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife]

Just 20 years ago, cars could freely enter and park in Delft’s historic core.

Then a center-left coalition narrowly (19-18 votes) passed an autoluwe binnenstad (‘low-car city center’) policy.

Now not a single resident or merchant misses the days when cars choked their streets.

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

Who’d like to see one of this on the Clopton Bridge?

[Brent Bellamy @brent_bellamy]

The United Kingdom has been testing noise cameras, similar to photo radar, to detect and ticket excessively loud vehicles on the road. This could help improve quality of life in urban neighbourhoods in every city.

https://t.co/dmajJJZdYJ

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

Greg McLeod voicing what a lot of Stratford resident would like here...

[Stratford Herald @HeraldNewspaper]

Walk this way? Imagining a traffic-free Stratford https://t.co/t9ZCLQx6on via @HeraldNewspaper

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

Let’s not let the plans for a post-Covid boost in walking and cycling be under threat from a minority of noisy objectors.

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

@Blissahb @strat_observer @StratfordDC They’re only talking about pedestrianising a few streets right in the centre. No one is talking about stopping people driving into town. Surely you agree it’s been a breath of fresh air to be able to walk to the shops in the centre without the risk of being run down by a car?

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

@strat_observer And if he thinks pedestrianisation might do some damage wait until he hears about climate breakdown.

[Stratford Cycle Forum @StratCycleForum]

@strat_observer Or maybe looked into all the town centres and businesses that have been improved by pedestrianisation?