Category: Campaigning

The LCC Community Skills Summit is next week Saturday! A day of talks, workshops & networking on Saturday 18 Nov, to help skill up & inspire you to improve your area better for cycling, walking & wheeling. LOCATION: UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON DOCKLANDS. For full details see link below, It’s very exciting that almost a third of the people who have registered are new to campaigning, many not being LCC members, so we’d like to make them feel as welcome as possible. Therefore, we ask that you make an effort to speak to people you don’t know and encourage them (gently) to get more involved in their local LCC group. This is event is open to all – not just LCC members. !Pizza party updateAfter being neck and neck, Islington has nudged Tower Hamlets out of joint first place and are now in the lead with Haringey following closely behind. Snapping at their heels are Waltham Forest, Barnet, Hackney and Wandsworth. There’s still a week to go so if you want free pizzas at your next group meeting, encourage more people to register for the Summit.Registration link:  https://lcc.org.uk/news/lcc-community-skills-summit-2023/

The LCC is again requesting that we report incidences of close calls to police – ‘Met police officers say they want to hear from cycle users about locations where incidents of close passing occur regularly – these could be roads without cycle lanes and those where speeds are higher than average.’

This will enable them to target specific locations and help reduce road danger so please contact them at    RTPC-Cy@met.police.uk Give the exact location and the type of incident encountered.

Please join us on Thursday 7th of September to send a loud, clear message to Transport for London, Kensington & Chelsea and Wandsworth councils – Battersea Bridge must be made safe for cycling now. 

Assemble: 6pm, south side of bridge – In Town Statue, 1 Battersea Bridge, SW11 3TP

Tragically, on 10th August, a 27-year-old woman was killed while cycling across Battersea Bridge. Last year, another woman lost her leg cycling at the north end of the bridge. On average, there’s a serious or fatal collision involving someone cycling on this bridge every year. 

These deaths and serious injuries could have been avoided. Weak schemes have been proposed, but nothing has been delivered, and the bridge remains deadly. Join us on Thursday to demand urgent action from Transport for London, Kensington & Chelsea and Wandsworth councils.

This ride will be short – please turn up on time and wear muted clothing for the ride, homemade placards welcome – our slogans are “Make Battersea Bridge Safe For Cycling” and “Fix Battersea Bridge”.

FOR MORE DETAILS:

https://lcc.org.uk/news/battersea-too-little-too-late-tfl/

New protest laws: For those concerned about the change in protest laws, we have done everything possible to avoid arrests – find out more here.

Encouraging active and safer travel to school

Each school in Barnet has proposals for safer travel to schools. Barnet Council are running a survey on the Engage Barnet website. Details can be found here:

https://engage.barnet.gov.uk/school-streets-engagement

It is easy to take part – you can just look at the schools you have in your neighbourhood – or look at them all.

The closing date is officially today – 21st July – but it will probably remain open over the weekend. There is also an email address if you want to get it touch directly.

Does anyone have a gazebo that could be used for the Barnet Cycling Campaign’s stall at the East Finchley Festival in Cherry Tree Woods? Very useful to fend off sun/rain!

If you can help please contact Paul Shipway at booneysbikes@hotmail.com

We will have a stall at the East Finchley Festival on Sunday 18^th June. The BCC will have a cycle jumble box at the stall, like the one we have at meetings though on a bigger scale. If have any cycle jumble, ideally bring it along to the festival yourself. If you are not able to come to the festival but have some cycle jumble you want to contribute, please contact me on 020 8455 5174 / 07961 194 771 or  charles.harvey@hotmail.co.uk and I may be able to collect it.

Charles Harvey 

For details of the festival, see https://www.eastfinchleyfestival.org/

A message from London Road Safety Council aimed at those who commute to work by bike:

We are looking for cyclists aged 18 or over who cycle in London using their own bike as part of a commute to work. The aim of the project is to understand near misses experienced along different routes in London using a GoPro helmet mounted camera (we have helmets to lend for the project) where you can record a near miss vocally.  We would want you to record near misses over a two-week period. If you would like to find out more, please contact Nicola or James on email:

100cyclists-study@ucl.ac.uk

There is still time to have your say on the council’s consultation about keeping and improving the A1000 cycleway. The consultation ends on 21^stDecember. Following this there will be a report to councillors in January 2023.

Barnet Cycling Campaign believes that the cycleway should be kept and improved to meet the current national standards for cycling infrastructure, and that it should be extended from North Finchley to High Barnet. Given the Council’s declaration of a climate emergency it is hard to imagine that they will not want to keep the cycleway, but the more people who respond positively to the consultation the better.

If you have not already completed the council’s questionnaire on the cycleway, it can be found on the Engage Barnet website here:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/A1000Consultation

Please take time to have a look at the consultation and complete the questionnaire. Use the free text boxes in the questionnaire to suggest that the cycleway should be improved to meet the government’s cycling infrastructure design guidance LTN 1/20, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cycle-infrastructure-design-ltn-120

There is still time to have your say on the council’s consultation about keeping and improving the A1000 cycleway. The consultation ends on 21^stDecember. Following this there will be a report to councillors in January 2023.

Barnet Cycling Campaign believes that the cycleway should be kept and improved to meet the current national standards for cycling infrastructure, and that it should be extended from North Finchley to High Barnet. Given the Council’s declaration of a climate emergency it is hard to imagine that they will not want to keep the cycleway, but the more people who respond positively to the consultation the better.

If you have not already completed the council’s questionnaire on the cycleway, it can be found on the Engage Barnet website here:

https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/A1000Consultation

Please take time to have a look at the consultation and complete the questionnaire. Use the free text boxes in the questionnaire to suggest that the cycleway should be improved to meet the government’s cycling infrastructure design guidance LTN 1/20, which can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cycle-infrastructure-design-ltn-120