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Friday, 30 August 2013

Cycling: Feniton to Sidmouth cycle track latest

Things appear to be moving on the cycling front:

Latest on the Cycle Route ideas

Bridge in Harpford woods
A proposed shared use cycleway which follows the old railway track from Feniton to Otterty and ultimately to Sidmouth

Pupils at The King’s School, Ottery St Mary are proposing a new shared use cycleway which follows the old railway track starting at Feniton through to Ottery St Mary in the first instance. This will eventually link up with a continuation through Tipton St John and onto Sidmouth.

The Otter Trail web site is used to help you access up-to-date information about progress. If you wish to keep up-to-date with progress, you will be able to sign up to their newsletter via the site.


Vision Group for Sidmouth - Otter Trail Newsletter



Feniton to Sidmouth cycle track latest

Feniton to Sidmouth cycle track: feasibility study agreed to

Last Wednesday 21st August, members of the VGS Cycling Group and the Otter Trail group met up with the newly-appointed area manager for Sustrans, Paul Hawkins – for a ride along the planned Feniton to Sidmouth cycle route.

This follows on from the report in Cllr Claire Wright’s blog earlier:
Feasibility study moves cycleway forward another step 
Posted: 11 Aug 2013 
A feasibility study to examine a proposed cycle route from Feniton to Ottery to Tipton to Sidmouth, will help move the project forward another step. 
Sustrans has agreed to invest £10,000 to test how easy it would be to create a cycleway along the old railway line and establish the various options that the route might take, bearing in mind that the old railway line closed in the 1960s. 
It is exciting news that Sustrans have offered to do this and it should help considerably with our efforts to get the Otter Trail project moving.

Meanwhile, Paul Hawkins will be putting more flesh on what the feasibility study should be taking on – in time to address the Futures Forum of the VGS, when it meets on 24th September to consider ‘sustainable development’, an issue which Sustrans is very keen to promote.


Vision Group for Sidmouth - Feniton to Sidmouth cycle track latest
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