Sutton just loves its low traffic neighbourhoods and their road closures – and among the winners are… Sutton’s own motorists. Plenty of other groupsd win too – all over the London Borough of Sutton
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Healthy Streets Score Card Results
The recently published Healthy Streets score card results. unfortunately show Sutton ranked near the bottom of Inner/Outer London boroughs. Overall Below shows the 2021 figures. LTNs When we look at Low Traffic Neighbourhoods unfortunately we fall further down the score…
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
Waltham Forest mini-Holland with Paul Gasson
Following the talk Paul gave Waltham Forest mini-Holland: reducing road danger and growing active travel Charles Martin, Michael To and myself visited on Saturday, you can see the route taken and Michael’s thread with commentary. On behalf of @cyclinginsutton (including @MarcusHowarth…
What is your councillor doing for cycling?
We saw at the recent election for Mayor of London, nearly all the candidates got on board “Sign for Cycling” campaign. So what are our councillors doing to support this commitment to cycling? If you look around Sutton, you’ll be…
Tagged with: community, cycling, London Cycling Campaign, Sutton
Posted in Advocacy, Liveable Town Centres, Safe Routes to Schools
Posted in Advocacy, Liveable Town Centres, Safe Routes to Schools
Waalinden – If Wallington were in the Netherlands
Part of what we do in Get Sutton Cycling is imagine what we want our streets to look like. We ask questions such as ‘lots of short journeys in Sutton are made using cars – what sort of streetscape would…
Posted in Advocacy, Liveable Town Centres
A Ride around Sutton Town Centre with Councillor Manuel Abellan
Yesterday, on a very wet morning, John Courtman and myself and took Councillor for Beddington South and newly appointed Cycling Champion, Manuel Abellan, for a tour of Sutton High St and the surrounding roads. This was a follow up to our…
“Sutton is a pro-cycling borough”
Sutton Council held a cycle summit at the end of July to launch its draft cycling policy. At the meeting we were told several times that Sutton is – and apparently has been for decades – a pro-cycling borough. This…
No more taxpayer-funded facilities until they obey traffic laws
In this picture, you can see part of the pavement has been set aside for car parking on the A237 in Woodcote Road, Wallington. But there are at least two vehicles parked so badly that they spill out on to…
Get Sutton Cycling 