Cycle and road safety
Draft Cycling Strategy – Comments from Southwark Cyclists
February 13, 2015 | Bruce Lynn
Southwark Borough Council published its draft Cycling Strategy in November 2014 (see post here). Southwark Cyclists submitted 16 pages of comments! Below are some highlights. For the full document, click … Read More
Safe Cycle Route and Junction Design
January 8, 2015 | Bruce Lynn
Open session of Southwark Cyclists to start the next regular Wednesday meeting. Starts 6.30pm at Better Bankside on Wednesday January 14th 2015.
Rik Andrew, Co-Chair of the LCC Infrastructure Review … Read More
Ceremony to celebrate the life of Richard Muzira
October 10, 2014 | SallyEva
Zimbabwean-born grandfather Richard Muzira was a volunteer film maker with CoolTan Arts. He was a cyclist. He died under the wheels of a tipper truck at the junction of Albany … Read More
An alternative to Surrey Canal Path?
June 26, 2014 | SallyEva
Surrey Canal Path and its link to Burgess Park are the jewels in the crown of central Southwark and a well-deserved success story for the council’s encouragement of walking and … Read More
Parking on CS7 – a common problem
June 23, 2014 | Bruce Lynn
Nice example of inconsiderate, illegal parking. While we were having our Bike Week Breakfast at the Isalnd Cafe on Southwark Park Road (see post below), a large articulated truck stopped … Read More
20 mph on London and Blackfriars Bridges from July 20th
June 23, 2014 | Bruce Lynn
The much-heralded 20mph for all City of London roads will come into effect on July 20th (details, more information). Unfortunately some roads in the city are TfL controlled. But some … Read More
Cynthia Barlow’s speech at the vigil, May 17th, Elephant & Castle
May 19, 2014 | Bruce Lynn 1
On Saturday May 17th, on the way to the Big Ride, we held a short vigil at the southern junction at the Elephant and Castle. This was to mark the … Read More
Elephant and Castle – Response to TfL Consultation
April 30, 2014 | Bruce LynnTfL have proposed a new layout for the northern junction at the Elephant and Castle. We have responded to the Public Consultation by opposing this scheme. In our view the … Read More
Cute little traffic lights coming our way
December 20, 2013 | Bruce Lynn
On Dec 13th the Dept for Transport announced a trial of low level lights “to boost cyclists’ safety”. Two of the 11 trial sites are in Southark, on the west … Read More
Lorries for Savvy Cyclists
November 19, 2013 | SallyEva
Dozens join ‘Lorries for Savvy Cyclists’ event with @teamlondonbdg, @betterbankside et al http://t.co/9a7eVIIo56 via @se1
— Southwark Cyclists (@southwarkcycle) December 2, 2013
In light of the … Read More