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Congleton Sustainable Travel

@congletonsustrav.bsky.social

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Begun in 2023 as part of Friends of the Earth’s Congleton Climate Action group. Cong SusTrav is working to maintain and improve local facilities for users of pavements, cycles, buses and trains. No DM so use: www.facebook.com/cw12climateaction

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Free buses within Congleton on Sat 29th Aug - for the Jazz n Blues Fest, but for anyone to use. Thanks to Congleton Town Council.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Here it is in all its glory.

Footbridge diagram showing side view and end view with dimensions. 25m long. 1.8m wide, 1.2m railing height..Panel to one side with Beaver Bridges and Morris logos, plus various reference numbers

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

The last barrier falls on our part of NCN55/Biddulph Valley Way. 2 yrs after asking nicely, then nagging. Thanks to Cheshire East Green Infrastructure Team for obtaining UK Shared Prosperity Funding, and for CE Highways for implementing. @cheshire-east.bsky.social @cecrangers.bsky.social

Metal railings, A-frame and a wooden horse stile between a road and surfaced path that leads beneath a tree canopy. Route signage. The path is bordered on one side by wooden fencing at the rear of a row of houses.

Metal railings and a tarmacked accessible area with central bollard between a road and surfaced path that leads beneath a tree canopy. The area has standard junction road markings including a give way sign. The path is bordered on one side by wooden fencing at the rear of a row of houses. Route signage.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

Metal retractable ruler showing width of a tarmac path to be 1.22m plus another 4cm of edging strip alongside grass.

Steep camber and tactile paving by a dropped kerb at a light-controlled pedestrian crossing.

Light-controlled crossing control box with red man lit up.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

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View across a main road to a light-controlled pedestrian crossing to show the limited area to wait on, and a turfed area behind that could be tarmacked.

View of the approach to a light-controlled crossing from a path at right angles to the main road and crossing. Shows a tight right turn to the right to access the dropped kerb, limited waiting area, steep camber to the dropped kerb with tactile paving, and control button inconveniently on the far post.

A paved path emerging at right angles to a road with a tarmac path and a light-controlled crossing offset.

The hard surface around a light-controlled pedestrian crossing with a tape measure across the path. The path width is limited by one of the crossing posts on the left, and the soft turfed surface to the right. The tap measure shows available width of tarmac of 1.2m

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

@rantyhighwayman.bsky.social more photos. How many deliberated mistakes can you spot? I see 5.

View of a main road with no traffic. Foreground has a dropped kerb with tactile paving.

Main road with one vehicle on it, just passing a light-controlled pedestrian crossing.

View across a main road to the waiting area for a light-controlled pedestrian crossing, offset from the path that it serves that emerges from a housing estate.

Main road with a light-controlled pedestrian crossing, with dropped kerbs and tactile paving.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Current photos. The lights are fitted with sensors to detect users but not sure what area they cover. No dropped kerb at either end of the path. And by the lights, an area of soil that really needed to be surfaced along with the rest that was done.

Broad paved path between two modern houses.

Tarmac and tactile paving at a light-controlled pedestrian crossing.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Sorry, arrow in wrong place on the map.

Map showing road layouts, with an arrow pointing to a traffic-free link between two roads.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Here's the other side from a couple of years ago.

Road with narrow grass verge and fenced off gap in a hedge.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

The map shows the link between Bradshaw Drive and Manchester Rd. The idea is to provide a cycling link to cross Mcr Rd, then turn into Walfield Ave. The Streetview shows the view from Bradshaw Drive, with the incomplete link. That was going to have steps until we had a word, or two, or three.

Paving between two modern houses leading to an unfinished section that is fenced off.

Map showing location of the paved link between two roads.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

A member had to take avoiding action for the 4th time in recent months at the pedestrian lights on Market St. The driver coming from High St didn’t notice their red light. Until yelled at. Shocked expression. 😮 Perhaps they’ll pay more attention next time? 🤞 Photo from an old Google Streetview.

Right angles bend in road in a town centre with a traffic light on red.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 26/10/2025

Easily stopped by these rubber parking stops. They need fitting in so many places.

Shared use path adjoining car park bays fitted with rubber parking stops to prevent car bonnets or boots overhanging the path.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Here’s a simple idea near Marazion to stop parked vehicles overhanging the shared use path. Well done Cornwall.

Car park with some parked cars and some empty bays. Each bay has rubber ‘stop’ strips so that boots and bumpers don’t overhang the path nearby.

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Congleton Sustainable Travel @congletonsustrav.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

1/2 Do you have a disability? Do you walk, wheel or cycle on the Biddulph Valley Way or go to/through the Bromley estate park or town park, where access control barriers (that's A frames, horse stiles, bollards, railings, kissing gates etc) have been removed? If so, can you help with this research?

Notice inviting disabled participants to take part in research between July and Sept 2025 in daylight hours on a Congleton route where access barriers have been removed. Photo showing an A-frame on a traffic-free route.

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