At last, it looks like some tangible progress is being made with the London Quietways scheme. Those of you that attended our meeting last year at the Town Hall, heard Andrew Gilligan describe these routes as the ones that will encourage new and less experienced cyclists to choose cycling more often. One of the first Quietways approved will be Q2 and it will link Greenwich, Lewisham and Southwark to Waterloo,… Read More »The Quietways are Coming!
18 of us at Ladywell on a lovely sunny morning, rode off along the Waterlink Way, through Lewisham, over the winding bridge which crosses the railway at Elverson Rd, up a steep hill which a few of us walked, but one fixie rider managed in one go, across Blackheath to Greenwich Park and its viewpoint in front of the statue of General James Wolfe. Our Anarchism, Socialism and Revolution ride… Read More »East London Anarchists Ride
Join LCC’s Big Ride We will be leading a feeder ride to this. The meetpoint will be the bridge on the Waterlink Way behind Sainsburys at Lower Sydenham at 10am. Map of meetpoint
A 7am start deterred some of you (as I thought it might) and after a flurry of texts on a beautiful Easter Saturday morning, just as I was about to leave, from people who had overslept or were otherwise unable to make it, just three of us left the cafe to head through fairly quiet South London streets. We soon realised we had a slight tailwind, which lifted my spirits… Read More »Surrey Hills Ride: The Tough One
and we are also holding a bicycle bits jumble sale…bring along any bicycle paraphernalia you no longer need, donate it to us and we will put it on sale on our stall. Proceeds to go to Lewisham Cyclists to help us run our activities.
Thanks to everyone who came down to Ladywell Fields and stopped to talk about the Space4Cycling Campaign. Some of you even sent off emails to your candidates there and then. Easy to do on the go from our tablet! Thanks also to those of you who donated or bought jumble. Some of you did both! And thanks to our great team of efficient Dr Bikers, who ministered to dozens of… Read More »Space4Cycling Event Saturday 26th April
Andrew’s Cheese Run route covers some of my favourite bits of Kent as well as a few lovely lanes I am not so familiar with…often the way with Andrew’s rides…I think I know the area he’s leading us through and then he turns off down a beautiful little lane that I haven’t yet ridden, even after 30 odd years of exploring this area on my bike. So, despite the horrid… Read More »The Cheese Run Ride Report
At Lewisham Cyclists, we have been wondering just what the omission of Deptford Bridge from TfL’s revised list of junctions that will be reviewed with a view to redevelopment, actually means. In fact, not one junction in Lewisham made it on to that list of 33. Andrew Gilligan did warn us that the original list of 100 would be reduced, when he visited our meeting last year. He stated then… Read More »Deptford Bridge Junction: Do TfL think this is safe enough?
Boris was off again yesterday…another PR exercise designed to convince us that things are about to start changing for the better on our local streets…this time it was the announcement of the “mini Hollands” boroughs. We local campaigners across London have also been working hard, holding our own meetings, making our own press releases as part of the Space4Cycling campaign. You can check what we in Lewisham have come up… Read More »Lots of meetings, talking, press releases: Now it’s time for action!
Lewisham Cyclists began to gather at the cafe in Ladywell, quite early on a beautiful International Women’s day morning, ready to believe that winter was finally done with us and a spring and summer of sun kissed rides was on its way. Ten of us set off along the Waterlink Way to Greenwich where we were met by another ten. At this point, Sidney and Mary left us as they… Read More »An East London Explorer for International Women’s Day