Our response to the informal consultation ‘Cycleway between Sutton High Street and Colliers Wood – proposals in the St Helier area’, as submitted to Sutton Council on 3 November 2019, is detailed here. The response is also available as a…
Our response to the ‘Sutton Liveable Neighbourhoods funding bid’ consultation 2019
Our response to the ‘Sutton Liveable Neighbourhoods – funding bid’ consultation, as submitted to Sutton Council on 31 October 2019, is detailed here. The response is also available as a pdf document (600 kB): Sutton Liveable Neighbourhoods funding bid consultation…
Get Sutton Cycling AGM and Campaign Meeting, October 7, 2019
We met at The Racehorse, West Street, Carshalton. 1 Present: Dominic, John K, John P, Marcus (in the Chair) and Neil. Apologies were received from Ben, Charles, Colin, Gary, Shirley and Victoria. 2 AGM business The Treasurer’s Report was received…
‘Healthy Streets’ for Sutton year two (2020-2021)
Between June and September 2019 each of Sutton’s six local committees published a ‘Local Implementation Plan – Traffic Schemes 2020/21’ report outlining proposed schemes for inclusion in the 2020/21 bid to Transport for London (TfL) for their area. Taken collectively, the…
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Anticipating Sutton’s first Liveable Neighbourhoods funding bid
Summary The London Borough of Sutton will be submitting a bid to Transport for London for funding through the Liveable Neighbourhoods programme [1] on, or before, 29 November 2019. To support the bidding process, Sutton Council has developed an online survey…
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London local authorities and the promotion of Car Free Day 2019
Here we present a round-up of Car Free Day (22 September 2019) promotional tweets from London local authorities, as posted chronologically between mid-morning on Wednesday 18 September and mid-day on Tuesday 24 September 2019. It may not be a definitive…
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Will the new cycle crossing in Belmont encourage people to cycle?
1: Overview During July and August of 2019 three new crossings were constructed at the busy Brighton Road / Chiltern Road / Cotswold Road intersection in Belmont (1.5 km to the south of Sutton town centre). One of these crossings…
Cycling Events in Beddington Park – Bike Fest : Saturday 21st September
Car Free day is Sunday 22nd September: London Car Free Day (Streets for people) Reimagine. Your city. Car free (TFL). The preceeding day Beddington Park will be host to Bike Fest with local cycling groups and activities during the afternoon…
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Carshalton Station approach road – safety improvements expected soon
A contra-flow for cycling has been provided on the Carshalton station approach road for a number of years. However, the contra-flow, which exists on a road owned by Network Rail and leased to the incumbent rail operator (currently Govia Thameslink…
TfL launch Cycling Infrastructure Database
Transport for London (TfL) has launched the world’s largest Cycling Infrastructure Database. The press release that accompanied the launch (TfL, 1 August 2019), notes that the Cycling Infrastructure Database (CID) contains the location of more than 240,000 pieces of cycling infrastructure in…
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