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Yahoo
28-06-2025
- Yahoo
Plan backed to encourage more walking and cycling
Worcester City Council has approved a plan to encourage more people to walk and cycle rather than use their cars. The place and economic development committee gave the Active Travel Action Plan the green light on Monday, which will be implemented over the coming three years. The local authority's previous plan introduced the Beryl bike scheme, which saw about 52,000 cycle journeys in the city in the past year. "This plan is about making walking, wheeling, and cycling viable and attractive travel choices in Worcester, particularly for shorter journeys," said councillor Robyn Norfolk, chair of the committee. "The previous Active Travel Plan has shown how a project like the Beryl bikes can encourage active travel across our city." She said it would form part of a wider plan for Worcester, with the aim of making it a "healthy and active city". Proposals include a mobility hub being set up in the Arches walkway at Foregate Street. It would be home to a range of sustainable transport options, the council said. The new walkway links the train station, the Hive and the Riverside, and would have secure parking, as well as a Beryl bike bay. The aim is to provide links between different modes of travel in the city centre. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram. More than 50,000 miles covered in bike hire scheme Cycling and walking schemes get £7m Worcester City Council
BBC News
28-06-2025
- BBC News
Worcester City Council approves new active travel plan
Worcester City Council has approved a plan to encourage more people to walk and cycle rather than use their place and economic development committee gave the Active Travel Action Plan the green light on Monday, which will be implemented over the coming three local authority's previous plan introduced the Beryl bike scheme, which saw about 52,000 cycle journeys in the city in the past year."This plan is about making walking, wheeling, and cycling viable and attractive travel choices in Worcester, particularly for shorter journeys," said councillor Robyn Norfolk, chair of the committee. "The previous Active Travel Plan has shown how a project like the Beryl bikes can encourage active travel across our city."She said it would form part of a wider plan for Worcester, with the aim of making it a "healthy and active city".Proposals include a mobility hub being set up in the Arches walkway at Foregate Street. It would be home to a range of sustainable transport options, the council new walkway links the train station, the Hive and the Riverside, and would have secure parking, as well as a Beryl bike aim is to provide links between different modes of travel in the city centre. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
BBC News
19-05-2025
- Politics
- BBC News
Worcestershire council: Calls for hospital parking at County Hall
Fresh calls are being made to use Worcestershire's County Hall as overflow hospital parking.A new administration taking control of the council will face questions over the authority's Worcester headquarters, which has been closed since June last Party and Independent councillors have called for County Hall car parks to be opened up to staff, patients and visitors at nearby Worcestershire Royal Hospital for an initial nine motion is to be debated at a council meeting on Thursday – the first since elections earlier this month, when Reform UK became the largest party with 27 seats but remained two short of an overall majority. In the motion, councillors also called for more bays for Beryl Bikes, which is a bike-sharing scheme in the city, to be installed at the Spetchley Road end of the council motion said: "Worcestershire County Council's empty car parks at County Hall are just a few minutes' traffic-free walk away from the hospital."Allowing these car parks temporarily to be used for overspill hospital parking could reduce congestion on the hospital site immediately while the longer-term solutions are put in place." Plans to build a multi-storey car park next to the hospital were approved in March, but councillors behind the motion said: "This will take several months to be built."It is suggested the council could charge £3 a day for parking at County Hall to bring in revenue and that "a significant number of car parking spaces" should be opened said details would need to be worked through to prevent an adverse impact on county workers and visitors and to address residents' said a park-and-ride scheme for hospital staff, visitors and patients had been spoken about for months now, but still nothing was in place. In February, 50 parking spaces were temporarily made available for hospital staff while their usual parking was council offices have been shut since June last year, after potentially dangerous RAAC concrete and legionella bacteria were detected. This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, which covers councils and other public service organisations. Follow BBC Hereford & Worcester on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
Yahoo
26-04-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
E-bike hire scheme withdrawal 'a mess'
A councillor has described the withdrawal of an e-bike hire scheme in east Dorset six months after it was launched as "a mess". Dorset councillor Ray Bryan, who oversaw the original contract, said it was bad publicity to see the scheme come to an end, weeks after the council had finished spending millions of pounds on new cycleways in the area. The project offered 122 Beryl Bikes, operating from 47 bays across Wimborne, Colehill, West Parley, West Moors and Ferndown. Dorset Council said not enough people were renting the bikes, with many choosing to ride their own instead. The scheme was paid for with £240,000 from a Community Infrastructure Levy fund and £23,000 from a Transforming Cities fund, plus £224,000 from Beryl Bikes. In November 2024, Beryl Bikes told the council at the three-year break point in the contract it would be pulling out of the area because it was "not viable". Mr Bryan said: "I can't tell you how damaging this has been in the east Dorset area. "People can't understand why this council has spent millions on providing cycleways and, within weeks of us having finished the cycleways, Beryl withdrew the service." He said Dorset Council was wrong to rely on information from Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP) about the viability of the scheme and should have carried out its own checks. Councillors were told that, while the company looked at population figures, the age profile of the area appeared not to have been investigated. The area has one of the highest elderly populations in the country, while the bike scheme users are predominantly under 40. Wimborne councillor Shane Bartlett said the Beryl Bikes decision had been "hugely disappointing" and had not helped commuters. You can follow BBC Dorset on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram. E-bike hire scheme withdrawn due to low demand New e-bike hire scheme set to launch Dorset Council Beryl
BBC News
26-04-2025
- Business
- BBC News
Dorset councillor says e-bike hire scheme withdrawal 'a mess'
A councillor has described the withdrawal of an e-bike hire scheme in east Dorset six months after it was launched as "a mess".Dorset councillor Ray Bryan, who oversaw the original contract, said it was bad publicity to see the scheme come to an end, weeks after the council had finished spending millions of pounds on new cycleways in the project offered 122 Beryl Bikes, operating from 47 bays across Wimborne, Colehill, West Parley, West Moors and Council said not enough people were renting the bikes, with many choosing to ride their own instead. The scheme was paid for with £240,000 from a Community Infrastructure Levy fund and £23,000 from a Transforming Cities fund, plus £224,000 from Beryl November 2024, Beryl Bikes told the council at the three-year break point in the contract it would be pulling out of the area because it was "not viable". Mr Bryan said: "I can't tell you how damaging this has been in the east Dorset area."People can't understand why this council has spent millions on providing cycleways and, within weeks of us having finished the cycleways, Beryl withdrew the service."He said Dorset Council was wrong to rely on information from Bournemouth Christchurch and Poole Council (BCP) about the viability of the scheme and should have carried out its own were told that, while the company looked at population figures, the age profile of the area appeared not to have been area has one of the highest elderly populations in the country, while the bike scheme users are predominantly under councillor Shane Bartlett said the Beryl Bikes decision had been "hugely disappointing" and had not helped commuters. You can follow BBC Dorset on Facebook, X (Twitter), or Instagram.
