London Cycling Campaign
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Latest news from the LCC. London Cycling Campaign is a registered charity that has been actively promoting cycling. Our vision is to transform our city into a healthier, cleaner and happier place to live, where cycling is a choice for any Londoner who wants to ride the streets conveniently and without fear.
London Cycling Campaign
3y ago
No safe cycle tracks on the most dangerous road in the borough
London Cycling Campaign condemns the decision made today by the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (RBKC) to not reinstate the protected cycle tracks on High Street Kensington, and calls on the Mayor, Sadiq Khan, and Secretary of State for Transport, Grant Shapps, to take immediate action.
The council leadership team chose instead to 'commission research' into post-Covid transport patterns, starting in the summer, an options described by local campaigners Better Streets for Kensington & Chelsea as 'kicking the can down ..read more
London Cycling Campaign
3y ago
Great news: an overwhelming majority of respondents agree with LCC that parks are for people, not cars. Bad news: despite those results, The Royal Parks are set to meekly roll over the trials of current schemes for another year, rather than make these schemes permanent now, and add to them.
Another year of dangerous Royal Parks roads?
The Royal Parks has received almost 18,000 responses to consultations across changes to five of its iconic parks in London that were subject to trial restrictions to motor traffic over the last six months. And good news is that in every consultation, a str ..read more
London Cycling Campaign
3y ago
Lambeth council has released the first results of traffic monitoring around the Railton Low Traffic Neighbourhood (LTN) it installed in June 2020. And motor traffic levels have plunged across the area following implementation, including on nearby main roads, and taking into account a new “baseline” for Covid.
Obviously, Covid and associated lockdowns are having all sorts of impacts on car use and motor traffic levels across London, but the approach Lambeth has used to create a new baseline based on traffic counters in use constantly across the borough shows it’s possible, despite the pa ..read more
London Cycling Campaign
3y ago
An independent survey of 1,000 residents of the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea (RBKC), carried out for Transport for London (TfL) shows the majority support reinstating the Kensington High Street cycle tracks, undermining a key reason given by the council for removing them (before they’d even been fully installed).
In December, RBKC removed the protected bike lanes that had been in for just seven weeks, citing opposition from businesses and residents. Yet the survey by market research company ICM Unlimited found 56 per cent of surveyed residents back the tracks, compared to just 30 ..read more
London Cycling Campaign
3y ago
A new study of the rollout of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) by boroughs during 2020 under the Mayor’s “Streetspace” plans, has shown that these schemes delivered positive, socially just outcomes across London. The study was by renowned transport academic Professor Rachel Aldred of University of Westminster’s Active Travel Academy, and colleagues.
The study looked at over 70 new LTN schemes successfully delivered during March-September 2020 and still in place in October. Topline results were:
“Across London, people in deprived areas were much more likely to live in a new LTN than pe ..read more
London Cycling Campaign
3y ago
Photo credit: Dennis Eagle/ Explore
From 1 March all heavy lorries operating in London will have to meet a one star Direct Vision Standard (1* DVS). This is a world's first - that lorries will be only permitted into a city when they either have better direct vision from the lorry drivers' seat to the road and pavement around them, or have good mitigation systems to back up their vision. And it's thanks directly to LCC and your campaigning we've won this action from the Mayor.
All lorries entering London from 1 March will need to avoid having the most dangerous blindspots and restricted ..read more
London Cycling Campaign
3y ago
The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) recently received a number of complaints alleging racist tweets by a member of the LCC staff team, Mr Simon Still, posted prior to his employment with the charity. LCC takes such complaints extremely seriously and suspended Mr Still, prior to an urgent investigation.
The investigation has been completed, and has concluded that the tweets were indeed racist. LCC believes there can be no excuse for such racist statements, condemns them and deeply regrets the offence that these tweets have caused.
Mr Still did not contest that the tweets were racist. He has apo ..read more
London Cycling Campaign
3y ago
The Asthma UK and British Lung Foundation 'Invisible Threat' report, published yesterday, set out the scale at which air pollution is devastating people's health across the UK, with Londoners and visitors to London enduring the most toxic air in the country. A joint report by the British Lung Foundation and Asthma UK stressed five important priorities to end the crisis, specifying "fund inclusive walking and cycling policies that enable everyone to be part of the solution to toxic air, such as e-bikes and segregated cycle lanes."
London: The UK's most dangerous air zone
The British Lung Founda ..read more
London Cycling Campaign
3y ago
The aftermath of the cycle theft from UCL Hospital's unprotected cycle parking area last week
This week, we’ve been bringing public attention to the case of a worker at University College London Hospital, who was voluntarily giving up their weekends to care for COVID19 patients, out of her own time and at great personal risk.
The worker, a cyclist, was leaving the hospital on Saturday 30 January and found that her cycle had been stolen from the hospital storage unit. One can only imagine how heartbreaking and stressful this must have been, given how difficult working in this sector has ..read more
London Cycling Campaign
3y ago
We were saddened to hear of the death of 29 year old Jack Ryan, who was killed while out jogging at this junction recently and to see blame for the ongoing unsafe conditions here tossed back and forth between TfL and Kensington & Chelsea council (RBKC). The current junction design has all the worst aspects of motor traffic being prioritised at the expense of the safety of vulnerable road users - there have been a staggering 27 injuries in just the last two years.
There are no pedestrian phases on any arm of the junction - pedestrians must just make a dash for it and on some arms there is n ..read more