Council Plans to provide more Electric Charging Points
coventrysociety The City Council has announced plans to double the number of on-street electric vehicle charging points in the city and a new bus charging facility. The new points are to…
Transport
Our Future Moves
Our Future Moves is a year-long celebration of Coventry and Warwickshire’s transport innovation. It starts with a major exhibition at Coventry Transport Museum which will be launched on 21st July…
Coventry River Cultural Programme
A consortium of Coventry organisations, including the Coventry Society, has been successful in securing a grant of nearly £100,000 to bring the River Sherbourne to life and revitalise the area…
Cleaning Up the Ring Road!
Coventry’s ring road is getting a deep clean over the coming weeks, brightening and refreshing its concrete fascia cladding. The work began on Monday 12 April and is expected to…
Severn Trent Help Fund the Richard II Loop Line
In December we reported on the plans for the Richard the Second Loop Line. This is a two mile cycle – pedestrian route along the old loop railway line from…
Binley Cycleway Phase 2
The City Council is consulting on Phase 2 of the proposed Binley Cycleway. There was previous consultation on phase one last year. The overall plan is for a 6km (3.75…
Coventry to Get a Futuristic New Airport
In what some people have seen as an early April Fools jest and others have assumed to be an extract from a 1950s Sci-fi comic, plans have been announced for…
Electric Bus City?
Coventry has successfully bid to become one of the UK’s only two all-electric bus cities. Coventry and Oxford were selected from 19 towns and cities who applied to be the…
A hundred Years ‘On the Buses’
Our Deputy Chair, Paul Maddocks, reviews “100 years ‘On The Buses’ with the Bailey Family” – A Personal Journey by Roger Bailey. Paul writes…. I was very pleased to get…
Research into Wireless Charging of Electric Vehicles to Start in Coventry
Western Power Distribution (WPD), the electricity distribution network operator for the Midlands, has announced the launch of its new research project exploring the feasibility of wireless, ‘on-the-go’ charging for electric…