The Friars: at the hub of European cycling!
Through the Friars run Route 1 (Dover - John O'Groats) and Route 11 (Harlow - Wells-next-the-Sea). Route 1 is also part of the North Sea Cycle Route: Trondheim to Lerwick (via Harwich! National cycle route? Sustrans explains!)
These cycle routes carry an estimated 2500 visitors a year through our town, but this
isn't a multi-lane highway: the route crosses Hardings Pits and arrives in the Friars at the Nar
sluice, passes the Carmelite Arch, joins Bridge Street on the corner by the Friend's Meeting House
(where thoughtless parking often blocks it completely!) and goes straight over the roundabout and
away along to the Saturday Market Place, where it (apparently) does the High Street and New Conduit
Street on foot, before escaping into the Walks past the railway station. You might guess from this
account that cycle routes in Kings Lynn are a bit less than joined up.
Local cycling
Cycle routes around the Friars
KLWNBUG and local cycling issues
Kings Lynn and West Norfolk Bicycle Users Group
campaigns for better facilities, organises rides and generally gingers things up bike-wise in West Norfolk.
Current areas of concern in our neck of the woods are :
- * Improvements to signage on all routes
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Preventing vehicles obstructing the junction where the cycle path meets Bridge Street - * Getting some lighting installed between Whitefriars Rd and the Nar Sluice
- * Improvements to the junction of Hardings Way and Wisbech Rd
- * Opposed to any moves to put a motor road between Wisbech Rd and the Friars
Bike links
- Kings Lynn and West Norfolk Bicycle Users Group: BUG!
- CTC: UK cycling's mational organisation
- SUSTRANS: the Sustainable Transport charity: bikes a major part of their strategy
- Borough Council's cycling page
- Norfolk County Council's bit