As we said a while back, Tfl had arranged to meet with us in the New Year to update us on their plans for CS5, specifically the section from New Cross to Lewisham. Now, this in itself is a matter of some dissension amongst local cyclists. Some want TfL to grasp the nettle, and drive it straight along the main road, through New Cross and down Lewisham Way and Loampit… Read More »CS5 update
Some of you may have completed the survey run by LCC last year to identify barriers to safe cycling. We took the Lewisham results and mapped them here. https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zymna9GbZKQs.kTpzv122DGnI
A big than you to everyone who came along to the town hall and participated in our meeting…your enthusiasm and energy, coupled with excellent local knowledge will really help us put together a great contribution from Lewisham to the London wide LCC Space4Cycling campaign. Over the next couple of weeks, we will be putting together our list of demands. it will be one per ward, for the purposes of LCC’s… Read More »Thanks Lewisham! Space4Cycling Public Meeting successful and productive thanks to you!
In all the excitement of preparing for our public meeting on Wednesday, and following up on the restrictions proposed to the Waterlink Way with the dog track development, we nearly forgot to remind everyone about the consultation on the Central London Grid, which closes today at midnight. Although none of it will be in Lewisham, we will have to ride it, as it covers large parts of inner London that… Read More »Central London Grid
This is a special Lewisham Cyclists meeting to endorse the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) Space 4 Cycling campaigning ‘Asks’ for each Ward in the forthcoming Lewisham Council elections. These ‘Asks’ have been developed over the last couple of months by Lewisham Cyclists representatives from across the borough. Here’s the agenda for this month’s meeting: Lewisham Cyclists Meeting Wednesday 19th February 2014 at 6.30pm Lewisham Town Hall, Catford Road, SE6 4RU… Read More »Agenda for LC Space for Cycling Meeting 6.30pm 19th February at Lewisham Town Hall
All are welcome at the Lewisham Cyclists monthly meeting held on the third Wednesday of each month in our favourite Lewisham pub. These meetings are fairly informal and it’s a good opportunity to hear about the current local campaigns and influence their direction. Please come along… Here’s the agenda for this month’s meeting: Lewisham Cyclists Meeting Wednesday 15th January 2014 at 6.30pm Dog and Bell Public House, 116 Prince St,… Read More »LC Monthly Meeting 6.30pm 15th January, Dog and Bell, Deptford – Agenda
I have been a bit remiss in completing ride reports recently…but having been told at the Greenwich Christmas Quiz that at least a few people enjoy them, I will start again. I rode to Clapham Junction under blue skies streaked with thin threads of pure white cloud, a beautiful clear winter light flooding the Common. A great 6 miles to start the day I was expecting at least half a… Read More »Surrey Hills Winter Edition December 2013
Whenever you meet with TfL’s highly trained and intelligent road engineers to discuss cycling infrastructure, they will often baffle you with their references to traffic modelling systems that show them just how impossible it is to take the kind of road space from cars for other road users that we ask for. They will quote surveys and projections of future traffic flow needs at you that can leave a simple… Read More »Transforming City Streets with a Paintbrush
All are welcome at the Lewisham Cyclists monthly meeting held on the third Wednesday of each month in our favourite Lewisham pub. These meetings are fairly informal and it’s a good opportunity to hear about the current local campaigns and influence their direction. Please come along… Here’s the agenda for this month’s meeting: Lewisham Cyclists Meeting Wednesday 17th July 2013 at 6.30pm Dog and Bell Public House, 116 Prince St,… Read More »LC Monthly Meeting 6.30pm Wed 17th July, Dog and Bell, Deptford
http://www.prudentialridelondon.co.uk/Prudential_RideLondon___Events/Prudential_RideLondon___FreeCycle.htm MARSHALS NEEDED FOR PRUDENTIAL FREERIDE LONDON! I posted about this ride earlier. We need volunteers to help us get our feeder rides through London, on to the main route at Tower Bridge. If you are free on Saturday 3rd August, and are a confident London cyclist and would like to help get a bunch of diverse and friendly people up to central London on their bikes that day, then… Read More »London Freeride 3rd August 2013: Call for marshals