Low Carbon: Walkway will provide eco-friendly travel
WORK has started on a major cycleway project that will link Crewe and Nantwich.
The Crewe to Nantwich Greenway aims to create a 4km rural promenade between the towns along the A530 corridor.
It will be set well back from the main road connecting the riverside walks in Nantwich with Crewe's historic Queen's Park, currently undergoing a massive restoration.
The Greenway will let people visit both of these areas easily by foot and by bike.
Initial construction work will focus on Queen's Park and the King George V playing fields. It is hoped all the work will be completed by November 2011.
Cheshire East Council is working closely with the charity Sustrans, which promotes environmentally-friendly ways to travel, on the ã1.4m scheme.
Cheshire East portfolio holder for environmental services Cllr Rod Menlove said: "It is great to see that work has started on this project. The Crewe to Nantwich Greenway is a vital scheme that looks to improve transport links and boost the local economy."
Health and wellbeing portfolio holder Cllr Andrew Knowles added: "Hopefully the new Greenway will encourage both local people and visitors to the area to get out and enjoy the outdoors, be that on foot or by bike.
"We are constantly being told to increase our physical activity and leave the car at home. Hopefully this new route will encourage people in the area to get out and enjoy our beautiful countryside."
One of the features of the scheme is a portrait bench to include three metal figures, associated with the local area.
People are asked to send in their nominations to phil.tomlinson@cheshireast.gov.uk or phone him on 01270 686421.
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Tracey Todhunter
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This is great news, and comes as a contrast to the perhaps anticylcing stance taken by local police in Crewe town centre.
Riding recklessly is unacceptable, anti-social, threatening behaviour, be it on a bike, a board or a horse.
It is just as offensive, and also embarrassing, to the vast majority of polite, careful, mature cyclists who glide along pedestrianised Victoria Street barely at walking pace. Was it these considerate ladies and gentlemen, who have the good grace not to clog up the roads with their dangerous, polluting motor cars, who got the bulk of the 28 fixed penalty notices recently? Or were they slapped on the dangerous, reckless and inconsiderate oafs on stolen bikes who, we can only be grateful, are not behind the wheel of a car? Or were they given to the fixed-wheel, thick-heads, who, brainless, and brakeless, view the pavement as a short cut, and pedestrians as skittles?
Crewe used to be a massive cycling town, with thousands streaming proudly out of the works every night. Most cyclists you in town see now hang their heads in shame for sneaking a few yards on creaking boneshakers to reach the cycle racks outside the book shop or the Grand Arcade. Heavy with guilt, girth, or shopping, they pose no threat to their fellow citizens. Discretion, reason and empathy are skills we all need: pedestrians, police and pedallers alike.