Listed issues, most recent first, limited to the area of Westminster Cycling Campaign:

• 'Quick Wins' - minor cycling infrastructure improvements in Camden

  Created by George Coulouris 11 November, 2013 14:30 // 2 threads

  • bollards
  • barriers
  • road-surface
  • dropped-kerb

  Camden officers have indicated that they would like to receive prioritised list of suggestions for (very) minor improvements throughout the borough that will make cyclists feel better catered for. Examples of changes that will be considered:
  - dropped kerbs
  - obstructive barriers (i.e. anti-motor cycle barriers)
  - stretches of poor road surface (such that you have slow down on a Brompton or weave around holes)
  - Feeders into ASLs that are too short or non-mandatory

  Changes that shouldn't be suggested for this initiative include:
  - anything that would require a local consultation
  - anything that involves changes to parking provision
  - individual pot-holes

  To compile a list, we want suggestions from members. The Council's deadline is Monday November 25th. So can we have members' suggestions by Wednesday November 20th please. That will allow time for us to compile a list and circulate it here for comment.

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• Regent's Park allowing motor traffic in before the 7 am time

  Created by Mixhael 15 October, 2013 14:21 // 1 thread

  • royal_parks
  • road-safety

  In common with quite a few cyclists I set my alarm clock early so I can do few laps of Regent's Park Outer Circle while it is closed to through traffic (Midnight to 7 am).

  However the gates are increasingly opened earlier and earlier. This morning it was 6:30 am.

  I've written to the Royal Parks who have helpfully said this shouldn't be happening and have passed my enquiry to the Crown Estates Paving Commission who manage the gates.

  Who in their turn have unhelpfully said they only have one operative to open the gates and basically 'tough'.

  I asked them if they could at least open the northern gates last but they haven't replied.

  Any suggestions how this can be moved forward?

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• New CCC website design and implementation

  Created by George Coulouris 29 August, 2013 11:20 // 1 thread

  • website

  For discussions on the design of the new website, following the CCC Committee decision to initiate the construction of a new CCC website.

  A working party has been set up, consisting initially of George, Jean, Ben and Geoff.

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• TfL Consultation: CS5 Cycle Superhighway

  Created by Shaun McDonald 06 December, 2012 00:33 // 1 thread

  Overview
  Barclays Cycle Superhighways are cycle routes running between outer and central London. They provide new cycle lanes and other dedicated infrastructure so that cyclists can enjoy swift, direct, safer journeys around the city. We have developed plans for a new route and would like to hear your views.

  What are we consulting on?
  We’re proposing to introduce a new cycle route between New Cross Gate and Victoria. Barclays Cycle Superhighway Route 5 (CS5) would run via Peckham, Camberwell, Kennington and Vauxhall.

  Proposed road layout changes
  The new route would bring substantial changes to the road layout to improve safety for cyclists, including:

  More space for cyclists and buses, through reallocation of road space

  New mandatory cycle lanes, all at least 1.5 metres wide

  Improvements for cyclists at 52 junctions, including new Advanced Stop Lines, cycle feeder lanes, and speed reduction measures

  An innovative cycle ‘early-start’ facility at Vauxhall Bridge Road/Millbank to help cyclists get ahead of traffic

  Banning some turns for cars and lorries to reduce conflict with cyclists

  Extended 20mph speed limit in New Cross
  

  Other benefits

  Over 3,000 new cycle parking spaces along the route

  Cycle safety checks

  Free cycle training

  Industry-recognised safety training for drivers of large goods vehicles
  

  Proposed route

  Click here to download a larger map of Barclays Cycle Superhighway Route 5.

  How do I view the proposals and have my say?
  

  Detailed proposals

  Find out more about the proposals for each section of the new route by clicking the links below.

  ► Section 1 – Vauxhall Bridge Road north (Neathouse Place to Charlwood Street)

  ► Section 2 –Vauxhall Bridge Road south (Charlwood Street to Millbank)

  ► Section 3 – Vauxhall Bridge Road / Millbank junction

  ► Section 4 – Vauxhall Bridge

  ► Section 5 – Vauxhall Gyratory

  ► Section 6 – Kennington Oval / Harleyford Street

  ► Section 7 – Oval Junction

  ► Section 8 – Camberwell New Road

  ► Section 9 – Camberwell Green (consultation in January 2013)

  ► Section 10 – Peckham Road west (Benhill Road to Southampton Way)

  ► Section 11 – Peckham Road east (Lyndhurst Way to Peckham Bus Station)

  ► Section 12 – Peckham High Street / Queen's Road west (Peckham Bus Station to Carlton Grove )

  ► Section 13 – Queen's Road (Carlton Grove to Pomeroy Street)

  ► Section 14 – Queen's Road east (Pomeroy Street to Pepys Road)

  ► Section 15 - New Cross (and other local cycling improvements in Lewisham)

  To request a paper copy of our proposals, please email barclayscyclesuperhighways@tfl.gov.uk

  Public Exhibitions

  You can also view the plans at our public exhibitions. Dates and locations are given below.

  Saturday 8 December 11:00-15:00, Peckham Library, SE15 5JR (view map)

  Tuesday 11 December 15:00-19:00, Oval House Theatre café, SE11 5SW (view map)

  Wednesday 12 December 15:00-19:00, Parnell House, SW1V 1LW (view map)

  https://consultations.tfl.gov.uk/cycling/cs5

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• Difficult junction at Marble Arch coming from Oxford Street

  Martin Lucas-Smith 20 April, 2012 16:21 // 0 threads

  • junction
  • multilane

  Coming from Oxford Street, trying to get to the coach stops is quite difficult.

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• Clerkenwell Boulevard

  Created by Andrea Casalotti 25 November, 2013 13:25 // 1 thread

  • grid
  • filteredpermeability

  Here is an ambitious plan for a Bicycle Boulevard from Shoreditch to Fitzrovia, along Old Street, Clerkenwell Road and Theobalds Road, open only to bicycles, buses and motor traffic for local access only.
  a. It is now the most cycled route in London, showing that it is the desired EW route.
  b. It is of variable width, therefore trying to accommodate bikes, buses, and through traffic in a consistent and safe way is impossible. In other words, a compromise will be a botch job.
  c. There will not be mixing of buses and bicycles: bicycles will have a dedicated two way cycle lane on the South side of the street.
  d. The Boulevard stops being a mega- EW-rat-run. Motor traffic will have to use Pentonville/City Road.

  More details here: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1yw9mkHhGZaVBKYJs6FxyhC1Z4nNYVl-IFH-aR1ScK9U/pub?start=false#slide=id.p

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• Thames Garden Bridge

  Created by Richenda 18 November, 2013 12:30 // 1 thread

  • thames
  • garden
  • bridge
  • london-wide

  Apparently TfL commissioned "...to explore the opportunity of a pedestrian river crossing ....". They may not think bikes should also be included, but they should!
  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/luxury/travel/4162/a-garden-bridge-across-the-thames.html
  http://www.gardenbridgetrust.org/index.html

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• Quietway 16 (Cycleway 51) in Westminster

  Created by Colin Wing 06 December, 2014 08:37 // 2 threads

  • quietway
  • st-johns-wood
  • marylebone
  • westminster

  This is the proposed route of Quietway 16 in Westminster

  
  

  
  

  Nominal deadline set to clear this from the Consultation Map.

  
  

  
  

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• Quietway 88 (Cycleway 40) in Westminster

  Created by Colin Wing 06 December, 2014 15:39 // 3 threads

  • quietway
  • consultation
  • westminster
  • fitzrovia
  • pimlico

  This is the proposed route of Quietway 88 in Westminster. An alternative option uses the west side of Trafalgar Square instead of Cockspur Street.

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• Quietway route from Green Park to Marylebone

  Created by Dominic Fee 22 December, 2015 21:37 // 1 thread

  • westminster
  • quietway
  • marylebone
  • green-park
  • consultation

  This issue covers Westminster City Council's proposals for a Quietway route from Green Park to Marylebone

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• East-West Cycle Superhighway Phase 2 from Paddington to Acton

  Created by Dominic Fee 09 February, 2016 07:44 // 1 thread

  • cycle-superhighway
  • consultation
  • westminster
  • kensington-and-chelsea
  • ealing
  • tfl

  East-West Cycle Superhighway Phase 2 from Paddington to Acton

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• Sloane Street project

  Created by Simon Munk 16 January, 2017 12:01 // 1 thread

  • kensington-and-chelsea
  • consultation
  • consultations

  Kensington & Chelsea council said:

  "The scheme aims to reduce the dominance of traffic and create an attractive high-quality environment.
  In partnering with Cadogan as the majority landowner, and Transport for London, (TfL), we have the unique opportunity to improve the public realm not only on borough-controlled roads and pavements but also in areas of the street that are in private ownership."

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• Thames bridges counter-terrorism barriers

  Created by Simon Munk 12 June, 2017 17:09 // 1 thread

  • terrorism
  • cycling
  • walking
  • bridges
  • counter-terrorism
  • metropolitan-police
  • tfl
  • barriers

  Since the horrific attacks that took place on Westminster Bridge, and most recently London Bridge, the Metropolitan Police have installed temporary barriers on many central London bridges.

  LCC is fully supportive of the need to take urgent steps to provide extra protection for Londoners and visitors to our city. But we also believe it's right that we look at these measures, that have had to go in very rapidly, to see both what lessons need to be learned for future Highways schemes in the capital, and to see what, if any, tweaks can be undertaken to ensure these barriers can provide the extra security needed as well as allow people, especially London's large number of cycling commuters, to continue to cycle safely with minimal disruption - ideally even with enhanced safety and/or provision.

  Now we want your ideas of any tweaks, modifications or other measures that can be brought forward on the bridges affected so far, and given the measures in so far, to provide vital measures to protect against terrorist attacks, but also to enhance safety and provision for those walking and cycling, and to mitigate the negative effects of the measures so far.

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• Rumble strips instead of paint

  Created by Simon here 13 July, 2017 16:20 // 2 threads

  • on-road-cycle-lanes

  Complete separation of cyclists and cars can't always be achieved. To make sharing of the road safer I would like to propose using rumble strips instead of flat paint to separate the bike lane from the rest of the road. It would act as a physical reminder for car-drivers that they are encroaching the bike lane. This happens particularly near pinch points like road bends or crossroads. So even just a selective application of rumble strips could have a very positive effect, I believe. What's the view of the cycling community? Has it been tested?

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• Play Street consultations

  Created by Jean Dollimore 13 November, 2017 17:04 // 3 threads

  • camden

  From time to time, we receive consultations on Play Streets and rather debating each one as it comes in, I think it could be helpful to have a policy as to whether CCC want to respond as a group and the position we should take.

  Play Streets are achieved by the occasional closures of a stretch of road to enable children to play (e.g. twice a month for a couple of hours).
  The road closures are usually operated by local residents using ‘road closed’ signs, advanced warning signs and barriers.

  Play Streets are not directly connected to cycling. But, as they may give people an idea that it would improve the area to have longer term road closures, I would like to support such schemes.

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• Kilburn High Road Liveable Neighbourhood

  Henry Lancashire 07 October, 2018 12:38 // 1 thread

  • liveable-neighbourhood
  • liveable-neighbourhood-scheme
  • consultation
  • brent
  • survey

  Info from survey:
  "The London Borough of Brent and Sustrans are working together to explore ways in which the Kilburn High Road and surrounding area shown could be improved. Together we want to better meet the needs of the community to make it a more desireable place to walk, cycle and enjoy being in.
  ...
  London Borough of Brent and London Borough of Camden will submit a joint application to Transport for London's Liveable Neighbourhood programme in November 2018, which will incorporate suggestions made by the community."

  Brent Cyclists are forming our own response, to be sent by end of October 2018.

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• London's #SpaceForCycling campaign

  Created by Simon Nuttall 14 November, 2013 13:13 // 3 threads

  • campaign

  London Cycling Campaign's Space for Cycling campaign

  Has a clear message - what can we learn from them?

  http://lcc.org.uk/pages/space-for-cycling

  https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Space4Cycling&src=hash

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• Don't pedestrianise Fitzrovia - make it access only

  Created by linus 07 December, 2018 17:57 // 1 thread

  • fitzorvia-camden-westminster

  Westminster council are doing two important things at the moment. There is a consultation on "Oxford Street District" here: https://osd.london

  The other thing WCC are doing is going to close Riding House Street with the Camden boundary at the junction of Cleveland Street by installing bollards across the road. The street has already been closed for over a year and it has had no negative impact. Camden have already done this at Fitzroy Square and Warren Street and it has been very positive. We need to do more of the same.

  The issue of through traffic -- including Torrington Place -- needs to be dealt with as a matter of urgency. All areas of Fitzrovia are above the legal limit for NO2, except for Crabtree Fields open space. (Sample readings: 55 µg/m3 - legal limit is 40 µg/m3. NO2 pollution on Oxford Street east is 66 µg/m3 & on Euston Road it is 84 µg/m3.)

  Camden has so far refused to entertain the two road closures I have suggested - Torrington Place and Goodge Place.

  I am now going to suggest the following road closures to Camden and Westminster to make Fitzrovia "access only".

  Close Goodge Street at Westminster boundary at junction with Goodge Place; close New Cavendish Street at the junction with Cleveland Street, and finally close Clipstone Street at the junction with Cleveland Street (this would also require Cleveland Street to be one-way north bound).

  I believe it will not impact on access to all streets by motor vehicles for deliveries and drop-offs, etc. But it will eliminate entirely motor through traffic across the Camden/Westminster border and mitigate the effect of Gower Street northbound traffic turning into Torrington Place. This would also cut down on traffic along Grafton Way which also a victim of WEP.

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• Progressing the LCC 2014 election campaign 'asks'

  Created by George Coulouris 29 November, 2013 10:33 // 7 threads

  • localelections
  • 2014
  • 20mph
  • schoolroutes
  • rat-running
  • greenways
  • towncentres

  This issue is intended to act a repository for material that can be used to back-up the LCC's 2014 Local Election Campaign 'Asks'. There are 6 'asks' that were finalised and agreed at the LCC's AGM on 19 October 2013:

  1. Safe routes to schools
  2. Areas without through motor traffic (AWTTs)
  3. Protected space on main roads/major junctions
  4. Safe cycle routes via parks and canals (Greenways)
  5. 20mph speed limits
  6. Liveable town centres

  so we'll have 6 threads under this Cyclescape issue where we can collect explanations, discussions and most importantly concrete illustrations of what is meant by each ask.

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