Bike Taxis open for business (free)
Bike Taxis are the latest great idea from the team which brought you the Bike Train. The Bike Train has fans (lots of them) but we recognise it can’t be perfect for everyone. That’s why we are introducing Bike Taxis. … Read More
Closing roads around schools
Campaign as hard as you like for active travel to school and cleaner air in playgrounds, parents won’t let their children cycle if it’s dangerous for them to do so. Time to get serious and keep the school-rush at bay.
My … Read More
One Minute Action: protect the award-winning Dante Road closure off CS 7
This road closure has won an award as the Healthy Streets Community Project of 2018. Tell Southwark Council we agree that it’s great and we want to keep it.
The nomination (by LB Southwark) says: Dante Road and Brook Drive are narrow … Read More
Quietways: critical fails analysis rides
These are the first seven Quietways. Tfl reckons there are (or will be) lots more now. But are they any good? Just one bad junction is enough to send would-be new riders back to the bus. These bad bits are … Read More
60 Healthy Riders out on Saturday (29th Sept)
We had 30 riders on our Southwark Healthy Ride last Saturday. Our sister group in Bexley also had 30 riders. So in the beautiful autumn sunshine last Saturday there were 60 cyclists out enjoying an easy-paced ride thanks to the … Read More
Routeing Southwark Spine down Barry Road
This is Barry Road. It is the long straight ugly, polluted, dangerous speed-track from the Plough to the Rye. Only a council could be astonished to learn that drivers go fast on it. Average speeds exceed 24mph. Some people are going … Read More
One-way filter on Quietway 7. Any good?
A filter on Champion Hill but unhappily only stopping rat-running traffic in one direction. Still half a loaf is better than none. So what does this one do? Or rather what will it do because it’s not going in until … Read More
Tideway Patrol 31 8 2018
Please see attached report of the most recent Tideway patrol
Tideway road works patrol 30 aug v3-1
London Partnership Cycle Challenge
The winners of the 2018 London Partnership Cycle Challenge (LPCC) are the London Ambulance Service. Keeping cyclists alive comes naturally to them.
Just behind them on points was Team Bromley with Team Tideway in third. TfL Velo-ceraptors … Read More
National Publicity for Healthy Rides
Short piece about Healthy Rides in British Cycling’s Ride Social Creator Newsletter. “For this month’s Featured Ride we are off to the big smoke for one of Southwark Cyclists’ Healthy Rides.” Read more in copy of Newsletter here: Ride Social … Read More
66 Healthy Riders on Picnic Ride
August 18th 2018 Healthy Rides Picnic Ride to Thames Barrier Joint ride for Southwark Cyclists and Bexley Cyclists What a ride! We never managed to count everyone, let alone get them to stand still in one place for a group … Read More
