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…
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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…
Budget 2020 and the active travel vibe
Today (11 March 2020), Chancellor Rishi Sunak “unveiled a £30bn package to boost the economy and get the country through the coronavirus outbreak” (Budget 2020: Chancellor pumps billions into economy to combat coronavirus – bbc.co.uk). Everything you need to know about…
February 2020 in review
Continuing the trend that was set in the post January 2020 in review, here is a round-up of a selection of our online tweets, along with some headlines from our offline correspondence, during the month of February 2020 – a…
‘Cycleway between Sutton High Street and Colliers Wood – proposals in the Sutton area’ informal consultation launched
The prospect of Sutton’s first Cycleway receiving funding has taken a step up. Last week (25 February 2020) saw the launch of an informal public consultation, with a focus on measures to improve facilities in the neighbourhoods around the proposed…
Link between Sutton’s first proposed Cycleway and St Helier hospital approved
Sutton Council officers wrote to Get Sutton Cycling, and other stakeholders, on 19 February 2020 with the very welcome news that Transport for London had agreed to fund a link between the proposed Sutton to Morden/Colliers Wood Cycleway and St. Helier…
January 2020 in review
This post was originally published as ‘Our tweets in January 2020’ on 9 February 2020, and subsequently renamed ‘January 2020 in review’ on 18 February 2020. This is the first of what is hoped will become a regular digest of…
Cycle parking expansion on TfL roads in the borough
This article was originally published on 29 January 2020, but was then removed the following day when council officers advised that they were not sure whether TfL wanted the plans for the cycle parking expansion in the borough to be…
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