Monday Mar 31 – The weather is improving, and it’s great to be outdoors away from the congested roads and cycling by the River Wandle. The back streets we use seem unusually quiet today, it’s the last week of term…
Yearly Archives: 2014
Cycling to School In London Borough of Sutton
Tagged with: community, London Cycling Campaign
Posted in 20mph, Advocacy, Protected Space for Cycling, Road Safety, Safe Routes to Schools
Posted in 20mph, Advocacy, Protected Space for Cycling, Road Safety, Safe Routes to Schools
Cycling to school in London Borough of Sutton
My daughter is in Year 1 and goes to school about 1.5 miles from our home. A journey that’s almost always going to be easier, quicker and cheaper by bike than any other means. When she started at school, aged…
Tagged with: community, London Cycling Campaign
Posted in Advocacy, Liveable Town Centres, Protected Space for Cycling, Safe Routes to Schools
Posted in Advocacy, Liveable Town Centres, Protected Space for Cycling, Safe Routes to Schools
Sorry, am I in the way?
The problem with many cycle lanes like this in Sutton South is that pedestrians forget about them. It’s not their fault, this is bad design. Why would you take a great deal of notice of a white line on a…
Tagged with: cyclelanes, design, sutton-south, ventnor
Posted in Areas without through motor traffic, Protected Space for Cycling
Posted in Areas without through motor traffic, Protected Space for Cycling
Work under way in Carshalton
Friday March 21st and, as these pictures show, work is well under way to improve cycling possibilities in the Grove (Park) in Carshalton. At the side of the sports centre, running from the bridge down to paper Mill Close is…
Posted in Greenways
The Little Things
We all know it’s the little things that demonstrate how much we care. Your partner comes home stressed and because you care, you spend a little time with them, make them a cup of tea, sympathise, and do the right…
Posted in Greenways
A great speech from Chris Boardman to the London Councillors
Chris Boardman made a powerful speech on the 9th of March at City Hall trying to inspire the local councillors to prioritise cycling to benefit everyone. Sutton Councillors, please pay attention. Here are some extracts from Chris’ message to councillors…
Posted in Advocacy
Cycling is good for local businesses
An article from the Guardian newspaper on February 4 2014, describing how small and medium businesses in the US find they do more trade when the authorities promote cycling, makes interesting reading. “Protected bike routes increase retail visibility and sales…
Posted in Cycling and business
Join our Facebook community
We now have a Facebook community for you to share stories and ask questions. It should be a good place to hangout, virtually meet each other and keep in touch with what is happening on the blog. Key to the community…
Sutton Council signs up to the London Cycling Campaign’s Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling pledge
We are very glad to hear that Sutton Council has signed up to the London Cycling campaign’s Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling pledge http://www.suttonguardian.co.uk/news/11029178.Sutton_Council_signs_up_to_safer_cycling_pledge/ Councillor Stephen Fenwick and the London Cycling Campaign’s Tom Bogdanowicz Here are the details: The Pledge “We’ll work…
Space4cyling Survey
Thank you to everyone that came to our space4cycling event on Saturday. If you couldn’t make it or would still like to fill out our survey you can do it here. As part of the Space for Cycling campaign, we…
Posted in Survey
Get Sutton Cycling 