PRIMARY – Extended & Improved
We have some great news about our PRIMARY phonography exhibition (find out all the details here) that we can now announce:
- The deadline for submissions has now been extended to Sunday 4th March. We have had some incredible submissions but want to set aside more time to make the exhibition something really special.
- The competition is now open to up to 10 submissions from each individual. With the ability to capture many photos on your phone over the next two months we we want you to not feel restricted to just three. The same rules apply about the photos conforming to compositions using the primary colours though. If you have already submitted feel free to send more photos over as and when you please.
- The exhibition will be hosted by Albert Road’s own Bonzo Studio who are also partnering up with us in the creation of the exhibition space. More news on this soon!
- Finally, we will be running a competition as part of the exhibition where the best three photos submitted will win some incredible prizes. We will be announcing the prizes available very soon but got to say, these will be the best prize haul we have ever offered.
- We will be putting together a poster for the exhibition that will be on sale on the opening night. The poster will feature some of the best submissions and all profits from the sales will go to a local charity (details to follow soon). Due to this we need to say that any photos submitted to PRIMARY will involve you giving us permission to use them for commercial purposes, if you do not want your photo used in this way simply let us know via email.
Well, that is it for now! We really hope to drum up as much coverage locally for PRIMARY in the next couple of months so if you could Facebook/Tweet/+1 about the exhibition we would really appreciate it. We would love this exhibition to be a real reflection of the whole population of Portsmouth with everyone taking part and feeling involved.
Emailed mine over. I tend to find the phase 2 part the most dangerous out of the two.
I cycled along the new route the other day, so good to be able to actually enjoy the view without dodging cars and people.
Paul on March 11th, 2010Make sure it’s used on 4th April…
Martin on March 11th, 2010Try and shout out a call to action. ‘All riders take the cycle path…’
Tristan on March 11th, 2010I know of one avid Portsmouth cyclist who says the cycle route at Easney is a wast of time and no one will use it. People ask for a cycle route, then moan when they get it! Total A**holes.
Colin Sidup on March 11th, 2010I rode this first part the other day and thought the transitions were bullshit. Randomly forcing cyclists onto and off of a busy main road is asking for trouble, im a fairly confident cyclist but anyone whos unsure of themselves or how to act around traffic is going to shit their pants.
Other than that for casual cyclists this type of cycle path is an EXCELLENT idea but anyone who wants to move at more than a casual pace it simply does not work. Imagine hurtling along at 18-20mph only to be met with a bunch of kids wobbling left and right whilst their parents tell them not to panic.
The way the traffic has been sectioned off and the cars park is actually quite clever – much more so than i thought when reading about it.
My point still stands though and i shall use the road unless im just pootling along with some friends.
tom on March 11th, 2010Why can’t it be more like Amsterdam? Where the cyclist has the respect of the drivers and the right of way. Then we wouldn’t needed these stupid bloody cycle lanes, which do indeed cut parking spaces. I live by canoe lake and it will cause chaos in terms of parking, when it was already tight.
Elio on March 11th, 2010Agree, the route is less attractive to fast confident cyclists. The route can’t cope with absolutely all kinds of cyclist, it has to be a compromise given the space available. The main gain will be to encourage lots more new cyclists to gain the confidence that you may have forgotten how you gained. We were all wobbly cyclists once upon a time, and probably when the roads were less frantic. The more numbers of cyclists visibly grow, the more we can persuade PCC to expand an improving network of cycle routes and hubs that suit us all better, most of the time! I look at it glass half full not empty! Lets give the route a chance.
Hilary Reed on March 12th, 2010Although I do believe any consideration to cyclist is a good thing I am often getting harrassed off the roads because cycle lanes are available. I choose not to use the cycle lane because I want to travel faster than 15 mph and the lanes are not safe or practical for my type of cyclist.
It’s a good start and will get the younger and possibly older generation cycling but please don’t have a go at me Mr Car Driver if I cycle past you as you are crawling along in traffic….
Budgie on March 12th, 2010i think it looks awful down there. the parking space width for cars looks too narrow and i’d not be surprised if there were a few accidents as the road is narrowed too.
and the parking spaces facing the sea will be a loss too.
dave clark on March 12th, 2010Dear Mr Moon – you clearly are off your rocker or believe you live on another planet! if you think there is anything good to be said about the new cycle route in Southsea! It will do nothing to encourage people to come to Southsea when they find out that they either can’t park or worse still they suffer some kind of accident getting out of their car & onto the esplanade!
Pauline Fauset on April 4th, 2010You & the members of the committee that passed this are quite mad & I sincerely hope you have allowed enough money in your prescious budgets to put the road back to how it was!!!
I wonder if any of you really care what the people of Portsmouth think & will be stunned if I get a response to this!
One very cheesed off resident!
Better the new route than some total idiot reversing into a family and their children. I imagine the large total of people that have been knocked off their bikes due to reversing motorists not paying attention would agree any amount of money is worth not seeing another child in hospital. And honestly, what’s worse? Someone that was stupid enough to get out of their car and not looking both ways on a slow speed cycle path or some kid being reversed over in a 2 ton car. Tough call huh….
Tristan Savage on April 4th, 2010