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
And the start of September too. 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 September 2018 City of London Streets … 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
At the start of January 2018, I wrote about Merton Council’s latest wheeze to spend £800,000 to try and improve walking and cycling along Beddington Lane, running south from the middle of Mitcham Common. The works appear to be finished and the road has re-opened. I’ve been to take a look. In the January post, … Continue reading Merton Council’s rebuilt Beddington Lane: nice pavement, neglected junctions
An aide memoire of items I’ve noted from the boroughs where I work, rest and play, in case its of use to others. With London council elections in May 2018, and the purdah period kicking in for April, this quarter should start with a quiet month. June 2018 City of London Streets Sub-Ctte on 5 … Continue reading At the Council, April, May & June 2018
An aide memoire of items I’ve noted from the boroughs where I work, rest and play, in case its of use to others. With London council elections in May 2018, and the purdah period kicking in for April, this month will probably be the last useful one for council business for a couple of months. … Continue reading At the Council, March 2018
Updated 28 March to include link to report in local Sutton Guardian newspaper. The London Borough of Sutton has installed an anti-moped K-frame barrier on the Wandle Trail, part of National Cycle Route 20. As a consequence, many disabled cyclists are now barred from cycling on this quiet, off-road route between Merton and Carshalton. The … Continue reading London’s Sutton Council bars disabled cyclists from NCN20, Wandle Trail
(Updated 29 March 2018) In 2013 and 2014, Wandsworth Council committed to trialling 10 Cyclehoop on-street bike hangers, put contraflow cycle lanes 10 one-way streets, and put five dropped-kerb through-ways between adjacent streets which have been closed to through motorised traffic. Each year since, Wandsworth Council has requested funds from TfL towards these initiatives. Five … Continue reading Cyclehoops and contraflows: five years of failed cycling promises by Wandsworth Council
