First Round of Southwark’s Streetspace Improvements

Streets for Distancing: Our campaign asking the council to prioritise active travel in response to Covid-19

Southwark Council has just announced their first measures under the TfL Streetspace plan, which will make it easier to travel sustainably around London as … Read More

June Newsletter

Here’s our newsletter for June. If you want it to your inbox, then sign up here.

Southwark Council has just announced their initial measures to enable safe walking and cycling as lockdown is lifted. We take a look at the … Read More

May Newsletter

Here’s our newsletter for May. If you want it to your inbox, then sign up here.

Hope you’re keeping well during lockdown.

It has been a very busy month for Southwark Cyclists with a lot of our focus on campaigning … Read More

£6mil for Projects in Southwark

Southwark Council has £6m available to fund community projects, including public realm improvements that will enable safer and easier cycling across the borough. This is for permanent schemes and separate to ideas for temporary measures to manage the impact of … 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

Streets for Distancing

We have updated this page. See the new version here.

We are currently facing an unprecedented crisis. During this time the use of our streets has a direct impact on the lives of people affected by Covid-19. Key workers are … Read More

Another short “pandemic” route. We now have 9

Route 9. Camberwell Open Spaces. Another route starting centrally in Peckham Square next to Peckham Library.  6 miles and not quite flat.  A circular route more or less staying in Camberwell. It runs through a series of open spaces, some … Read More

Crossing Canal Path to Burgess Park – Major Upgrade

• Before upgrade, looking along road
• Upgraded. Looking along path.

Really nice job! This useful crossing that links the Peckham Canal Path to Burgess Park proper across busy Trafalgar Avenue has now received massive improvements. As you can see … Read More

April Newsletter

Here’s our newsletter for April. If you want it to your inbox, then sign up here.

I hope you’re doing well during this difficult time. As part of our response to COVID-19, we’ve postponed our face to face events, including … Read More

Covid-19 Pandemic – Suspension of Healthy Rides and many other events

New government advice on 16th March 2020 has led Southwark Cyclists to suspend activities that involve groups meeting together. These activities will restart when the pandemic is over.

In the meantime, do keep cycling and do keep contributing to our … Read More