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Cycle Buddies launch in Sutton #cyclebuddies
Please note: Participants must be 18 or over. Insurance is your responsibility. Get Sutton Cycling cannot accept liability for you or your possessions. It is your responsibility to follow advice and the Highway Code at all times. Your declaration when…
Showing support for Sutton’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
We want better, healthier and safer streets for everyone in the borough. Traffic taking a shortcut through neighbourhood streets, or “rat running”, has many negative effects on residents. It creates noise, danger and pollution, and puts people off walking, cycling…
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
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…
Our response to “Foresters Drive Highway Improvement Programme”
The Foresters Drive Highway Improvement Programme informal consultation closed on 9 March 2020. The consultation focussed on phase 1 of an improvement programme Three traffic safety measures were outlined in the consultation for Foresters Drive (located at the intersections with Great…
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First meeting with Elliot Colburn MP
Charles Martin and I (Marcus Howarth) met with the newly elected MP for Carshalton and Wallington today (14 February 2020). We asked straight off, what is he going to do about cycling infrastructure? He set the stage saying we don’t…
Notes from our January 2020 meeting
Next meet up will be: Date and time: Monday 27th January, 7.30pm for 7.45pm start Venue: The Robin Hood (upstairs), 52 West St, Sutton SM1 1SH This will include agenda, discuss the upcoming LCC local group survey and review what’s been…
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Responding to comments regarding data and the larger issues at hand
A statement prepared following a large response to our campaign Showing support for Sutton’s Low Traffic Neighbourhoods It is not clear where the the 2,000 cars an hour on Browning Avenue and Ruskin Drive claim comes from (which is presumably the…