Southwark Council’s Climate Strategy

Southwark Council is consulting on their Climate Strategy.

Respond to the draft Climate Strategy consultation. Deadline is 15 January.

Below is our draft submission to the council. If you think we’ve missed something, contact us.

Southwark Cyclists’ response

The consultation … Read More

Cycleway 4 is Open

Tower Bridge to Lower Rd section opened today, 25th September 2020.

C4 begins at Queen ElizabethSt/Tooley St junction and runs for 2km to Lower Rd, just past the Rotherhithe Tunnel Roundabout. It is a 2-way segregated track starting on … Read More

Cycleway 4 Lower Road and Rotherhithe Cycleway update

The Council’s reports about the Cycleway 4 Lower Road (C4LR) and Rotherhithe Cycleway (RCW) consultations are out and its great news with Lower Road changes getting ~70% support and Rotherhithe Cycleway getting ~78% support. RCW will now move to detailed … Read More

Sydenham Hill 20mph

Southwark Council are proposing changes to Sydenham Hill by reducing speeds, adding a protected cycle lane, and improving pedestrian crossings.

• Southwark Cyclists strongly supports these changes and welcomes Southwark council providing more protected cycle infrastructure and improved … Read More

Sumner Street

Southwark Council is proposing improved walking and cycling facilities on Sumner Street, near Tate Modern.

We support this proposal and are asking for the following improvements to make the scheme even better.

• A modal filter on Holland … Read More

Champion Hill ‘No Entry’ Trial

There has been a trial of a no entry on Champion Hill, preventing northbound motor traffic while allowing cycles, since February 2019. This filter prevents rat running along this section of the Quietway 7 route resulting in an overall decrease … Read More

Consultation Update

There are three new consultations open in Southwark. They all need your support, so please respond. If you’re a resident in any of the areas and would like to do more to support these plans, email us at southwark@lcc.org.uk

Our … Read More

Your experience of the Rye Lane closure

Peckham’s Rye Lane has been closed for gas works for 5 months. It was supposed to be longer, but a surprising lack of things going wrong means it’s reopening early.

Southwark Council are interested in hearing your experiences of cycling … 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

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