Local London Cycling Campaign groups in Tower Hamlets and Newham are organising a candlelit vigil at Bow roundabout on the evening of Friday 18 November 2011 to commemorate the two cyclists killed there in recent weeks. Representatives from Tower Hamlets Wheelers and Newham Cyclists will be at the roundabout from 6-7pm, and people from all over Greater London are being encouraged to join them. Tower Hamlets’ cyclist Gerry Matthews said,… Read More »Bow Fatalities
Dear All Please note that our next monthly meeting has been deferred to Wednesday 23rd November. This is in light of the fact that LCC’s AGM is on Wednesday 16th November and we would like to attend this. Please find here details of the LCC’s AGM: http://lcc.org.uk/events/annual-general-meeting-2011
Five or so I think at Cutty Sark Gardens for the 7:15 off, not counting one who emerged from the foot tunnel off to the East Croydon pick-up. By the time we left Forest Hill I think we were ten, another joined in Sydenham and by the time we hit East Croydon no-one was quite sure how many – 35? Maybe more. They came from Southwark, Lewisham, Bromley, north of… Read More »Mixing it with the cars November 7
My name is Georgie and I am the Sustrans Bike It Officer for the borough of Greenwich (http://www.sustrans.org.uk/index.php?id=268) I work with 12 schools across the borough to try and create a cycling culture within the schools. This means running various events, from ‘get off stabiliser sessions’ to ‘Dr Bike’ days to parent cycle rides. I have recently been focusing on Dr Bike days, to liberate bikes from sheds. The number… Read More »Can anyone help out Sustrans?
http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.com/2011/10/12-november-tour-of-transport-for.html Saturday 12th November at 10.30a.m. Meeting point: Stairs at the front of St. Mark’s Church, The Oval, Kennington, SE11 4PW I am working that week-end – but I recommend that people attend this!
Just heard from Twitterland from Greenwich Council: Greenwich Council now anticipates both Foot Tunnels will fully reopen in the New Year – Gwich currently open 6am-9pm weekdays When precisely in the New Year, Greenwich Council? We met at Cutty Sark Gardens 2 weeks ago for a ride and that whole area looks like the pits. There has also been no confirmation about when the lifts will re-open, personally I cannot… Read More »Greenwich Foot Tunnel – an update
I have been hearing from fellow cyclists over the past few years how awful some Addison Lee Drivers there, am pretty certain some of their actions have been recorded and stuck up on youtube. Anyway a few weeks ago I had cause to make a complaint to them: Dear Addison Lee, I was cycling to B******* Library where I work and as I was turning right to get onto Little Boltons (SW5)… Read More »Addison Lee – a new hope?
Saturday dawned fair and bright, and with that came a large group of cyclists: Field Marshall Hughes, Captain Fergar, Alan, Eleanor, Gareth, Helmut, Ian, Jane, Katie, Martin, Miranda, Philip, Suleiman. Pluckley, as we all surely know is Britain’s most haunted village so it seemed like a good opportunity to imbibe the spirits at the start of the ride, and thus to imbibe them again at the end in the Black… Read More »Pluckley Circular Ride 30th October
Bill Owen’s Secret London Gardens ride took us from Walworth to Vauxhall via St Giles, Islington, Barbican, Kings Cross, Hyde Park, Holland Park & Chelsea The individual gardens stunned us with their luxurious variety of colour and planting – we could have happily spent an hour in each of them. Most it seems were loving cared for by local community groups and it would be probably true to say that… Read More »Secret London Gardens 14th August
TfL and BoJo have made the idiotic decision to go ahead with their ‘improvements’ to Blackfriars, despite the overwhelming opposition to this. http://cyclelondoncity.blogspot.com/2011/07/bulldozers-move-in-on-saturday-this.html We cannot let this go unchallenged. We have to fight to stop these dangerous and ill-designed plans from happening. At least 3 protest rides have been planned. Friday 29th July: Southside of Blackfriars Bridge 6p.m. LCC Slow ride, followed by Critical Mass Ride at 7p.m. which will… Read More »Rallying Time – Blackfriars Bridge