Following an uninspiring delivery from Gary Smith, Sutton Council’s Head of Highways and Transport Services, ward councillors representing the St Helier, The Wrythe and Wandle Valley Local Committee have said no to a recommendation from Council Officers that, had it been…
A year after our meeting with Sutton Council to discuss our Space for Cycling ‘ward asks’ (see the Notes to our November 2014 meeting for the background on the meeting), there is now at last some progress to report. On…
Our get-together on the fourth Monday in September (28 September) was, as planned, more of a social gathering than a formal meeting. We were also ‘on tour’ (albeit it, only a kilometre or so away from the more regular venue…
It’s good to know that Cllr. Manuel Abellan, the borough’s official Cycling Champion (as announced at Sutton’s second cycle summit in July 2015), has been doing his research! Three major cycling conferences have been held in London over the last…
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…
‘Time to make the case and rise to the challenges’, is the title given to our response to Sutton Council’s draft Cycling Delivery Strategy 2015. The response was submitted on 7 September, the last day of the six-week consultation period. The…
This post first appeared as ‘Decisions on cycling have a lasting legacy, so the bar has to be set high at the outset’ in the September 2015 edition of the ‘Sutton Borough News and Update’. The ‘Sutton Borough News and…
On one of the wettest August days in living memory (ignoring five or six other days during the same month, of course), the fifth Get Sutton Cycling meeting of 2015 took place on the evening of Monday the 24th at…
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…
A few weeks ago Sutton published a draft of a new Cycling Delivery Strategy. It sets out how the Council aims “to make cycling the mode of choice for short local journeys, by improving the quality and legibility of cycle…
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