A West Sussex Action Group Committed to Protecting a Valued Local Asset
Friends of Centurion Way have campaigned since October 2017 to retain existing good quality walking and cycling facilities on the western side of Chichester. The initial 2017 Southern Access Road (SAR) proposals involved the removal of the southern end of Centurion Way with cyclists being relocated in both directions onto an unsuitable shared use pavement…
3:00 Pm on Sunday July 4th Picnic on Centurion Way Due to quarantine restrictions being extended by national government into July 2021, please contact summerpicnic@chicycle.co.uk if you intend joining this event. Unfortunately, we are now restricted to the event including a maximum of 30 persons. Celebrate Centurion Way as being the best walking and cycling…
At the beginning of May 2021, the counter system was undercounting! During bright sunny conditions people passing the counter were not registered. We have temporarily resolved the issue by boosting the infrared light beam (starting from May 13th). We hope the counter supplier Axiomatic can provide a better long term solution. On Monday 24th May,…
The counter has been missing some counts of path usage on bright afternoons. Data records are reporting errors during these periods of bright sunshine. The FoCW will investigate this issue and hope soon to give a more detailed report of the problem. We hope we can quickly resolve this problem. The count data as it…
The Friends of Centurion Way have now collected almost a quarter years figures of path usage starting from Jan 1st 2021. We only completed installation of the counter at lunch time on new years day so missed data from the very first morning of the year. The counter is at the Southern end of Centurion…
On march the first the Friends of Centurion Way downloaded a count of the people using the path over February 2021. The counter is at the Southern end of the path by Bishop Luffa school and recorded the data shown in the cart below. Red bars represent Southbound traffic and the blue bars represent Northbound…
Richard Turnbull of www.brightride.org.uk is conducting some market research to find out if there is demand for hiring out e-bikes in Chichester. If you want to invite friends and family to experience Centurion Way, an e-bike hire scheme might be an appealing prospect for you? Maybe you would be interested in trying out an e-bike…
There was a surprisingly large variation in traffic volumes from day to day on Centurion Way during January 2021. Presumably the variation was due to the changeable weather? Our counter at the Southern end of the path by Bishop Luffa school recorded the data shown in the cart below. A larger image of the chart…
The FoCW have fitted a people counter at the Southern end of Centurion Way. This is so we can document the number of people using the path and use the figures to argue for the preservation of walking and cycling opportunities in the area. The Southern end of Centurion Way is threatened by local housing…
An important stage in setting up a system for counting people using Centurion Way at its Southern end, is to verify that our Axiomatic People counter is registering people on the path correctly. Automated counting is not as straight forward as it may first appear using a beam counter. For example a child in a…