Category: Active Travel
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Car Free Day?
Dozens of families joined us, Hastings Urban Bikes, on Sunday for a Kidical Mass on-road ride round the lower part of Alexandra Park, down Queens Road, past the Council’s offices and along the A259 to Warrior Square – which is a long way, with hills, for children as young as six to cycle but several…
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Slow progress towards a better bus service
A chronic lack of bus lanes continues to make life difficult for the local bus operator, Stagecoach, and difficult for customers and for life without a car, the company’s Joel Mitchell tells Anna Sabin. Costs have gone up and revenues down, making it harder to achieve the investment required to improve the service. But there…
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HUB News – September 2026
The one and only Hastings Kidical Mass ride for 2026 will happen on Sunday 27th September at 10am – start inside the Bethune Way entrance to Alexandra Park. Flier to follow! (Not the 25th which is a Friday and mistakenly made its way into July’s Newsletter 🙄 Sorry!) We will be riding for fun, for…
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The third cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS3): Our thoughts
UK Government is seeking views on the development of its third cycling and walking investment strategy (CWIS3). Here are our responses, what do you think? Question 1: Do you agree or disagree with the proposed national vision for active travel? We disagree – in that it won’t produce adequate results Question 2: If you disagree,…