Category: Campaigning

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

Barnet Council is consulting on the future of the A1000 cycleway. The Cycleway was installed in 2020 and runs between East Finchley and North Finchley along the A1000.

The Leader of the Council, Barry Rawlings, declared a climate emergency earlier this year, and at Barnet Cycling Campaign we believe that developing safe cycling infrastructure is essential as part of the push to reduce vehicle emissions and encourage more people to cycle and walk. 

In view of this we believe that it is essential that the council keeps the A1000 cycleway and improves it to meet the current guidelines on cycle infrastructure design to fix the current problems with the facility.

As part of the latest consultation, Barnet Council is asking people to complete a questionnaire, which can be found on the Engage Barnet Website here:

A1000 Cycle Lane engagement and consultation – Phase 2 | Engage Barnet

Please take time to have a look at the consultation and complete the questionnaire. We would also ask that people 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:

Cycle infrastructure design (LTN 1/20) – GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

TfL are consulting on changes to Park Lane made during the pandemic which tamed an intimidating six-lane, 40mph urban motorway in central London with a 20mph limit, bus lane, two-way protected cycle lane and upgraded crossing for walking, cycling and wheeling.

The LCC have set up a tool to take just 2 minutes to respond easily to TfL. If you want more details on the scheme, consultation and to fill out the full survey see TfL’s Have Your Say hub. The consultation closes on 4 December 2022.