The Streatham Hill and Tulse Hill areas will continue to benefit from safer, healthier streets after Lambeth council said it plans to make permanent two trial low traffic neighbourhoods. A community decorated planter at a filter in Tulse Hill low traffic neighbourhood Lambeth Cyclists is pleased to see more areas benefitting from improvements for people … Continue reading Streatham Hill and Tulse Hill areas to keep safer, healthier streets
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Good news but more to do
Notes from our recent meeting Climate Safe Streets - election update Thank you to all of you who helped the Climate Safe Streets campaign. As a result of your emails to local party leaders we got pledges of support, including from Lambeth Labour leader, Cllr Claire Holland, who is again council leader. The work is … Continue reading Good news but more to do
Post elections, what next? Meeting Tuesday 17 May
The next Lambeth Cyclists meeting will be at 7pm on Tuesday 17 May - please mark your diaries! It'll be hybrid - so both in-person and also via Zoom. We plan to have an election debrief on our Climate Safe Streets campaign and an update on recent LTN decisions. There will then be an opportunity for you … Continue reading Post elections, what next? Meeting Tuesday 17 May
Party positions on Climate Safe Streets – get out and vote on Thursday!
The local elections are now just a few days away. We've asked all of the parties to sign up to our Climate Safe Streets asks (which you can read here). Our view is that these are the minimum that Lambeth needs to do to maintain momentum towards the London Cycling Campaigns Climate Safe Streets plan. … Continue reading Party positions on Climate Safe Streets – get out and vote on Thursday!
Green Party backs Climate Safe Streets
The Lambeth Green Party have made a solid pledge of support for our Climate Safe Streets asks, which you can read below. You can view their full manifesto here Alongside the retrofitting and insulation of homes, reducing road transport emissions across the borough is essential to help tackle the climate and ecological emergency. The climate … Continue reading Green Party backs Climate Safe Streets
Council leader backs Climate Safe Streets
Our Climate Safe Streets campaign has taken an important step forward with unambiguous backing from Lambeth Labour in the form of a statement from the current leader of Lambeth council, Cllr Claire Holland. You can read the full statement below and show YOUR support for Climate Safe Streets. The full detail of the Lambeth Cyclists … Continue reading Council leader backs Climate Safe Streets
Action to make streets safer and healthier is STILL popular
This is an updated version of an article we posted in October 2021. We have updated it with new polling and have a new paper Have LTNs affected election results - must-read for candidates in the 5 May 2022 elections. Low traffic neighbourhoods and and ‘active travel’ schemes have been in the news a lot … Continue reading Action to make streets safer and healthier is STILL popular
Loughborough Road Healthy Route
More good news from Lambeth as engagement begins for a significant upgrade to the current provision for cycling on Loughborough Road. The image below is typical and shows wand protected cycle lanes on both sides of the road, running on the inside of car parking where it remains, and with bus stop bypasses to remove … Continue reading Loughborough Road Healthy Route
Ferndale LTN Consultation live
Lambeth Council has opened the consultation on the Ferndale Low Traffic Neighbourhood - the last of the five LTNs that were implemented as trials during 2020 and 2021. The consultation closes on 20 March so if you live in or travel through the area be sure to respond before then. The Ferndale LTN opens up … Continue reading Ferndale LTN Consultation live
The Cut – upgrades and resurfacing
More good news in Lambeth as the filtering of The Cut moves from a temporary to an experimental traffic order. We understand this is part of the process towards making the scheme permanent. Filtering on The Cut, coupled with the changes Southwark have made on Union Street means Q14 becomes a truly quiet route onward … Continue reading The Cut – upgrades and resurfacing
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