A good news story featuring cycling. Very welcome this week, especially and a really good one to remind us just how enjoyable and positive an activity cycling can be. I met a group of cyclists that reminded me again of some of the many reasons I love cycling. I was responding to an email request for volunteers to learn how to pilot tandems to enable people with visual impairments to… Read More »Wheels For Wellbeing: A Cycling Good News Story
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 20th November 2013 at 6.30pm Dog and Bell Public House, 116 Prince St,… Read More »LC Monthly Meeting 6.30pm 20th November, Dog and Bell, Deptford
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
Ladywell streetscape improvements are nearing completion and the main roads are all open again. It is immediately apparent how much more space there is for pedestrians and it seems that traffic speeds are a lot lower due to the narrowed carriageways and raised table accesses to the side roads. From a cyclistâs point of view these reduced traffic speeds are a major benefit along with the soon to be smooth… Read More »Ladywell improvements update
Don’t forget to keep checking on our rides calendar, even through the winter months. Year on year, Lewisham Cyclists keeps riding as many of those 52 weeks as we can. The only thing that stops is unsafe conditions, like ice, and that doesn’t happen too often in this corner of the country. You will generally find at least one ride every weekend on our calendar throughout the winter, and often… Read More »Winter Ride Season Beginning!
The London Cycling Campaign annual general meeting on Saturday 19 October 2013 passed a series of motions confirming a commitment to campaign for: protected space for cycling or motor traffic reduction when speeds of motor vehicles are over 20mph or volumes of motor traffic are above 2000 passenger car units per day a Space for Cycling policy platform at ward level during the 2014 local elections cycling facilities that… Read More »LCC AGM: members confirms commitment to Space4Cycling
This development has a long and troubled history. As far as cyclists are concerned, the massive roundabout which has dominated the area since it was installed in the early 1990’s, will not be missed. Only a few hardened risk takers will attempt a circuit by bike and it’s no more popular with motorists. For pedestrians, it turned a fairly human sized simple T junction, with pubs, cinemas and shops in… Read More »Lewisham Gateway:
Seven of us headed up out of Coulsdon on to the lovely Farthing Down. The weather looked good but we had all brought waterproofs, prepared for the forecast showers. At this point, it looked as though the forecast was wrong. Beautiful blue skies, bright sunshine giving us terrific views all round. On to Chaldon and then a fast descent down to Spring Bottom Lane, and then further south to cross… Read More »Over The Hills and Not So Far Away (Farthing Down into Surrey and Kent Ride)
Andrew Gilligan (the London Mayor’s Cycling Commissioner) attended Lewisham Cyclists’ Special Open Meeting held at Lewisham Town Hall in September. He gave a presentation on the Mayor’s cycling strategy and then answered questions on this and other relevant local cycling issues. A lively and informative discussion opened up on cycling in the borough and it was an entertaining and informative meeting. The ‘Mayor’s Vision for Cycling in London’ published in… Read More »Lewisham Cyclists’ Special Meeting with Andrew Gilligan at Catford Town Hall on September 18th, 2013.
Nine of us at Ladywell Fields cafe – only just opening as we leave, so no opportunity for a quick coffee. Beautiful sunny day and few cars as we cruised to Hayes via Bellingham and the lovely section of Greenway along the Ravensbourne River. Soon out into the country the main ‘traffic’ being returning early rising club cyclists. Steady climbing up to Downe and a well deserved stop for teas… Read More »Ladywell Downe and Fickleshole