We were pleased to be a cosignatory to Extinction Rebellion Sutton’s Open Letter of 30 May 2020 calling on Sutton Council and Transport for London to take urgent action to make streets safe for walking and cycling. An open letter…
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Streetspace for London: Newsfeeds from Sutton and neighbouring boroughs
Last updated 8 July 2020 Following the unveiling of the London Streetspace plan on 6 May 2020, here we present a roundup of ‘Streetspace for London’ related news items published on the council news feeds for Sutton and a selection…
Streetspace for Sutton: The timeline of implementation
Last updated 6 July 2020. Note: Not all stages of the development of interventions will be included here (and there can be a delay in posting some of the details). Assistance with updates for Section 2 this article would be…
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Streetspace for Sutton: Setting the scene
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…
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…
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…
Get Sutton Cycling 