{"id":2341,"date":"2014-11-16T21:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-16T21:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/?p=2341"},"modified":"2020-04-02T18:50:14","modified_gmt":"2020-04-02T18:50:14","slug":"a417-cycle-path-proposals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/?p=2341","title":{"rendered":"A417 Cycle Path Proposals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Parish councils along the A417 from Wantage to Blewbury have had discussions with the County Council about traffic problems along the A417. A presentation of ideas were made to a meeting in August and one of the proposals was to build a 3m cycle\/pedestrian path. No views of cyclists have been sought so HarBUG would like to know what members think about this proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Please click on the link to have a look at the presentation: <a title=\"A417 Traffic Proposals\" href=\"http:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-08-15-A417-Presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/2014-08-15-A417-Presentation.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the face of it, it sounds like a good idea but there are a few points to note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If this path is built you, as a cyclists, would be expected to use it. If you continue to use the main carriageway you will probably get abuse from motorists. We have seen this happen on the Abingdon to Drayton road and at times on Fermi Avenue. If you currently cycle on the A417, would you use the path instead of the road to get to the Campus?<\/li>\n<li>It looks like the motivation behind the path is to get cyclists off the road rather than to provide a real alternative to the road.<\/li>\n<li>How are cyclists going to get from the A417 to the Campus? Will we be &#8216;dumped&#8217; back onto the main road at Rowstock?<\/li>\n<li>Would a path linking the Wantage to the Campus through the villages directly be a better option. HarBUG has been working with the County Council on this, so it was a surprise to learn about the A417 option.<\/li>\n<li>A similar type of path from Didcot to the Milton Interchange works OK. However the road is very busy, straight and fast with lots of HGVs\u00a0 so pretty ususable for cycling on.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Please can you email your views to: <a href=\"mailto:chairman@harbug.org.uk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">chairman@harbug.org.uk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Didcot riders, there is a proposal for a one way system in Upton which would directly affect the Sustrans 544 route. We will object to this unless there is contraflow for cyclists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposal for a cycle path along the A417 has been put forward by the parish councils.<br \/>\nMembers views are sought as to whether this path is a good idea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.harbug.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}