Last revision 2 July 2020 Introduction This is the first part of a two-part post relating to the ‘London Streetspace’ programme. The aim of ‘Setting the scene’ is to provide some context and background on a plan which will rapidly…
Yearly Archives: 2020
Petition: Covid-19: Make safe space to socially distance on Sutton streets
Please sign and share this petition we have created with Sutton Living Streets https://www.change.org/SuttonStreets
April 2020 in review
April 2020 will be remembered as the time when the number of deaths attributed to the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the UK reached an alarming peak in the early part of the month, and then slowly began to decline. It…
Notes from our meeting May 5th 2020
Slides: 20200505MeetingPresentation.pdf (320kb) Agenda Welcome, introductions, and apologies for absence (Chair) Space for safe cycling and walking during lockdown Prioritise asks Emergency Cycleways Filters Pavements Campaigning Audience Who have we\have we not contacted yet? Next steps LCC Local Group forum…
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Help us list Streets for Social Distancing in Sutton
UPDATE: Please now add suggestions to Widen My Path and we will be copying all the previous suggestions from our map below soon. Widen My Path On 28 April, Councillor Manuel Abellan, the Chair of the Environment & Neighbourhood Committee, told…
London local authorities, Covid-19, and social distancing
With the unveiling of Streetspace for London on 6 May 2020, this article was regulary updated throughout May. Readers are also directed to the continuation post ‘London local authorities, and Streetspace (June 2020)‘. Last updated 16 June 2020 “If you…
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March 2020 in review
March 2020 will be remembered as the month when the impact of the outbreak of the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) really started to take its toll in Europe. It was time when the message ‘stay home and save lives’ began, without…
Young women loses her life whilst cycling in North Cheam
It was with great sadness to receive the extremely distressing news that a women, aged in her twenties, died whilst cycling yesterday morning (7 April 2020) as a result of a collision near North Cheam in the north-west of the…
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Carshalton Station approach road – March 2020 update
Following on from our commentary in August 2019, Carshalton Station approach road – safety improvements expected soon, there is now some further progress to report (beyond the cutting back of foliage that took place towards the end October). In recent days…
Riding out a national emergency together
There is no doubt that these are challenging and very unsettling times which, for the majority of us, are unprecedented. The current outbreak of COVID-19 coronavirus, a pandemic, is changing the way we live our lives immensely. On 16 March…
