For as long as I can remember, RCC has been campaigning to improve access to the park through the gates on Roding Lane North and Acle Close. We now have progress. The Council has removed the nibs on the barriers to allow a greater range of bicycles to be pushed through. It’s a welcome improvement but it’s not quite the real deal.
The Department for Transport’s Local Transport Note 1/20 (LTN 1/20) Cycle Infrastructure Design recommends that all cycle infrastructure allow passage of the Cycle Design Vehicle. What’s this? Well, it’s easiest to think of it as the smallest box into which all cycles – a tandem, a tricycle, a hand powered bike, a cargo bike – can fit. If this box can navigate a piece of cycle infrastructure, then the infrastructure passes the LTN 1/20 test. If it can’t it fails. The adapted barriers at Claybury Park still fail. But it’s an improvement. If everything goes well – the worry always seems to be motorbikes getting into the park – then we can argue that local residents and park users should not fear the Council making the park accessible to the Cycle Design Vehicle – that is to all types of cycles.
Redbridge Cycling Campaign 