The Mayor of London has given Assembly Member Caroline Pidgeon a revised answer regarding how many kilometres of cycling quietway has been built during his mayoralty. As of 11 January’19, he’s declaring 65km as being “constructed” with “wayfinding” signs. In December 2018, the Mayor told Ms Pidgeon that 116+km of quietway and central London grid … Continue reading Mayor of London: 65km of cycling quietway are finished, not 100km
[Updated 23 January'19: This blogpost is now part one of two, and is focussed on the November'18 answer from the Mayor of London to Caroline Pidgeon. A second blogpost looks at the Mayor's clarification in January'19, which says that only 65km are finished with wayfinding signs, with a further 60km awaiting completion works] The Mayor … Continue reading Has the Mayor of London really “completed” 100km of cycling quietways?
An aide memoire of items I’ve noted from the boroughs where I work, rest and play, in case it is of use to others. Links to this year’s earlier posts: September and October 2018 Q3 July and August 2018 Q2 April to June 2018 March 2018 Q1 January and February 2018 Local Implementation Plan 3 … Continue reading At the Council: November & December 2018
All London boroughs need to submit draft LIP3 documents this month, November 2018, to Transport for London. Following public consultations and feedback from TfL, final submissions need to be made by February 2019. Here's the LIP3 drafts I've found so far for all 33 London councils (32 boroughs plus the City). My search-fu has failed … Continue reading Local Implementation Plan LIP3 drafts
An aide memoire of items I’ve noted from the boroughs where I work, rest and play, in case it is of use to others. Links to this year’s earlier posts: Q3 July and August 2018 Q2 April to June 2018 March 2018 Q1 January and February 2018 October 2018 Bromley Enviro Ctte on 10 … Continue reading At the Council: September & October 2018
Transport for London has made 3 months of data available from the cycle counters installed in February on route CS3 Embankment and CS6 Blackfriars Road. The data files, one per day per counter from 2 May to 31 July, are in the TfL's cycling open data folder. There’s also a discussion on TfL’s open data … Continue reading TfL’s cycle counter data: initial thoughts
Highways England has published plans for improving the flow of motorised traffic through Hooley, on the A23 just north of the M23 motorway. Where is it? What is proposed? Hooley (map) is a village (wiki page) in the Merstham district of Surrey which sits between the north end of the M23 motorway and Coulsdon in … Continue reading “Cyclists Dismount”: Highways England’s plans for A23 Hooley
An aide memoire of items I’ve noted from the boroughs where I work, rest and play, in case it is of use to others. Links to this year’s earlier posts: Q2 April to June 2018 March 2018 Q1 January and February 2018 August 2018 A quiet month, proving that life carries quite happily without … Continue reading At the Council: July & August 2018
Sutton Borough Council has admitted that it ignored its own cycling and transport strategies, the Equality Act, and cycling design standards when it installed a K-frame barrier on a national cycle route. In March 2018, Sutton Council installed a K-frame anti-moped barrier on National Cycle Route 20 at Watermeads Way on the River Wandle. The … Continue reading Sutton Council: “We never assessed impact of K-frame barrier on disabled cyclists”
(Updated, 22 June 2018, with the Scrutiny Committee's decisions re Quietway 21) If you ride a bicycle in Wandsworth, you may be interested in two sets of papers listed for Wandsworth Council’s Community Services Overview and Scrutiny Committee (‘the Scrutiny Ctte’) on Thursday, 21st June, 2018. The first is the periodic progress report, with updates … Continue reading Updated: Wandsworth cycling, Quietway 21 and council scrutiny
