All we need now is more places to lock your bike up and leave it. Currently in town centre there are no where near enough cycle stands and it surprises me that there is not. The square is the centre of the town and all we have are a few under the old court building, we need more stands maybe down the sides of the square where they are in full view of the public and not hidden away.

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An increase is good news, but there is still an awfully long way to go. Andy Wood points out what residents already know – cyclepath provision is woefully small, piecemeal and invariably tokenistic. Unless the roads get safer (i.e. drivers are more considerate) and more routes become acceptable for anyone but the brave, the increase will sadly tail off.

There is massive potential to improve Shrewsbury by cutting car use and getting more of us to ride, walk and so on. However, until the potential riders aren’t so frightened of riding into and around the town because of fear of traffic (and I’ve met so many people who say this) there’s only a limited amount that can be done.

Re. parking there was a cyclehoop trial in the Square, I wonder if that will eventually bring more parking provision. The walking & cycling map (PDF via http://bit.ly/bb2qoa) shows cycle parking locations, including two in the Square, on Pride Hill, outside the Wheatsheaf on High Street, Shoplatch, Castle Street, St Mary’s Place… The anticipated revamp of the West End is due to bring additional cycle parking spaces too.

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I regularly cycle a number of routes in and around Shrewsbury. The provision of cycle paths is welcome, however far too often they are only placed alongside major roads such as the inner ring road. it is also impossible to do a loop of Shrewsbury without some part of the route involving heavy traffic (Ellesmere Road for example). Far too often cycle paths are not linked and come to a sudden end. Since the start of the cycle scheme, some paths have been revamped but there is very little evidence of new or extended cycle routes. Little maintenance of routes appears to take place such as tree cutting or weed spraying and far too often I see pedestrians using the cyle route as an extension of the pavement.

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Cycle paths are excellent on the longer commutes around the inner by pass but break down when you hit the medieval centre and more narrow roads like coleham, abbey forgeat is a problem because its patchy – the lane stops at junctions where you most need the protection and because of lack of parking enforcement the lane is often blocked by cars forcing you out into the traffic

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Well how about they consider making the high street through to the bell stone a pedestrian area? The only veicles allowed through would be buses and taxi plus delivery vehicles during permitted times. It would make this town a far better place and there would also be no more crazy traffic hold ups we see day in day out. This would encourage more cyclists into town providing they give the town more cycle parking places.

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as george orwell once said, two wheels good, four wheels bad…

well something like that… :-)

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yes ive seen more too, not sure the council can claim the credit though, have you seen the price of petrol now, of course people are cycling more they are poorer every year and petrol still rises and rises

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Come to London,

Provison of new cycle superhighways across the city.

Cycle traffic lights.

Police enforcing traffic laws against cyclists.

Cycle Hire available almost every street, first 30 minutes free.

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i would like to see more analysis of the detail of these statistics becuase of course more people cycle in the summer, even i myself have been cycling in the last few months because its been glorious weather but i never normally do

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