‘Show your support for Shoreham pop-up cycle lane’

It has ignored the fact that the Upper Shoreham Road cycle lane has seen numbers of cyclists rise, based on council statistics.

The peak time for journeys is when children are cycling to and from school. Given that more and more children from Shoreham will be attending Sir Robert Woodard it is vital that a safe cycling route is supplied.

Most cyclists own cars and pay road tax and deserve a safe cycle route. Council monitoring found no delays to traffic caused by the cycle lane.

One of the most dangerous moves for cyclists is to be forced into the main stream of traffic in order to avoid parked cars.

In roads without separated, no-parking cycle lanes, national cycling organisations advise cyclists that it is safer to proceed further towards the middle of the road, avoiding parked cars by a minimum of 3ft.

Removing the Shoreham cycle lane would go against the government declaration of a climate emergency. The more that people leave their cars at home, including parents who drive their children to school, the better the air quality. In the most recent edition of the council magazine Connections an article headed ‘A healthier way to get to school’ stated families and older children who could walk or cycle to school are being encouraged to leave the car behind Removing the cycle lane contradicts this.

Please show your support as soon as possible, by contacting your MP, your local councillor, Shoreham by Cycle or Roger Elkins, county council cabinet member for highways and infrastructure. Also visit Timloughton.com/cyclesurvey