What links R2D2 to a Coventry Electric cab company?
coventrysociety CovSoc founder member and former Chair, Paul Maddocks, has written the following article for the Historic Coventry website and we re-print it here with their kind permission. A good fiend…
Transport
Council Transport Strategy Receives Funding
The City Council has secured £116 million additional funding to support its recently published Transport Strategy, through the City Region Sustainable Transport Settlement (CRSTS). This takes the total investment in…
Richard II Loop Moves Forward
In December 2020 we reported on plans for the Richard II Loop line. This is a new countryside walking and cycling route near the Charterhouse. Plans for the scheme have…
Earlsdon Cycling Pioneers
CovSoc member Peter James, tells us an interesting story which he discoved in researching Earlsdon’s cycling history with the Earlsdon History Group. Peter writes…. In 1885 the Old Nail Factory…
Pop-up cycle lane to be made permanent
A pop-up city centre cycle lane is set to be made permanent and two new connections to extend the city’s cycle network are also to move ahead. The temporary lane,…
Demolition of the Black Horse to Go Ahead
On Thursday (26th May) Coventry’s Planning Committee took the decision to permit the demolition of the locally listed former Black Horse pub at 73 Spon End. The 200-year-old former pub…
Droning on at the Urban-Air Port
The publicity says that this is “the world’s first fully operational Urban-Air Port for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and drone technology”. It’s called Air-One. Our Secretary, John…
New Railway Station Opens
The £82 million transformation of Coventry Railway Station has been officially completed and looks very fine. The major project at one of the fastest growing stations outside London has involved…
CovSoc Response to the Transport Strategy
The Society is impressed by the scale and vision of the strategy. We welcome most of the content with just a few reservations. We accept that in the longer term…
Flying Taxi Taster
CoventryLive has reported that a public exhibition of an urban airport for electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft is coming to the city centre this Spring. A car park…