February 2024 Newsletter
from the local group of
London Cycling Campaign in Camden
In this month’s newsletter we have:
- Clerkenwell Road Safe & Healthy Streets Consultation
- News From The Streets February 2024
- LCC Women’s Freedom Ride Supported By JoyRiders
- Peter Norton on GCN: Why Do Drivers Hate Cyclists?
- CCC Monthly Meeting 19th February
- Paris Votes To Triple SUV Parking Costs
- Crowndale Road, SomersTown Changes Due Soon
- Active Travel Interventions: Impacts On Behaviour & Health
- School Streets Belsize Lane & Lyndhurst Gdns: Views Needed
- From London To New York: Can Quitting Cars Be Popular?
- Unravelling The Cycling City – University Of Amsterdam Course
- Kentish Town Bike Workshop – 11 March
Clerkenwell Road Safe & Healthy Streets Consultation A very important and long awaited consultation!
It concerns the first stage of the much-needed east – west cycle route along Theobalds Rd––Clerkenwell Rd––Old Street (referred to as ‘Clerkenwell Boulevard’ since the campaign began 10yrs ago)
Proposals include:
- 400m of stepped cycle lanes both sides of Clerkenwell Rd (Gray’s Inn Rd to Farringdon Rd)
- Excellent new design for Theobalds Rd/Grays Inn Rd/Clerkenwell Rd junction & that of Roseberry Ave/Clerkenwell Rd
Please respond to the consultation via the response form at the bottom of the consultation page.
Respond to the Clerkenwell Road consultation
News From The Streets Feb 2024 First instalment includes Procter Street, York Way & Prince of Wales Road by Jean Dollimore.
First of a regular series of updates on Camden’s cycle infrastructure progress, appearing as and when there is anything new to report.
Camden Council have begun work on major changes to Procter Street as part of a scheme to improve the Holborn gyratory.
Note: We would appreciate it for those living close to one of these sites to volunteer to keep us updated
Read News from the Streets
LCC Women’s Freedom Ride Supported By JoyRiders
Women’s Freedom Ride event details
Peter Norton on GCN: Why Do Drivers Hate Cyclists? Global Cycling Network Asked Transportation Expert Peter Norton why car drivers are so angry with cyclists?
We’ve all been aggressively beeped, shouted at or even threatened on the roads but where has this road rage come from?
Watch the interview
CCC Monthly Meeting 19th February 7.30pm Held online, via Zoom from 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm
Anyone interested in cycling in Camden is welcome to join us.
Agenda items to include:
- Safe cycling maps discussion
- TfL Strategic Cycling Analysis 2022
- Clerkenwell Road Consultation
- LCC Women’s Freedom Ride, March
- Motor Vehicles Stopping In ASL Boxes
See further meeting details on our website
Paris Votes To Triple SUV Parking Costs Angelique Chrisafis – theguardian.com 4 Feb 2024
In a referendum on Sunday, which was closely watched by other capital cities, including London, Parisians voted to triple parking costs for SUVs, to tackle air pollution, climate breakdown, road safety and imposing a “form of social justice”, by targetting rich drivers in heavy, large and polluting cars.
Kerbside parking for an SUV or 4×4 car will rise to €18 (£15) an hour in the centre and €12 an hour elsewhere in Paris: applied to ICE or or hybrid vehicles weighing over 1.6 tonnes, E cars above 2 tonnes.
See the fulll article on SUV parking costs
Somers Town Changes Due Soon
Read more about Somers Town changes
Active Travel Interventions: Behaviour & Health Impacts Rachel Aldred; Anna Goodman; James Woodcock
New paper in Journal of Transport & Health: Impacts of active travel interventions on travel behaviour & health shows results from 5yr travel survey in Outer London.
Highlights:
- Uses 6 years of longitudinal data to examine impacts of active travel infrastructure in Outer London
- Finding a strong and consistent dose-response relationship between infrastructure and uptake
- Some evidence of reduced car ownership and/or use in the areas with most interventions
- Programme generates over £1bn health economic benefits for a programme cost of £100m
- Low Traffic Neighbourhoods may have very high value for money (as much as 50:1 to 200:1)
See the full paper
School Streets: Feedback Needed Two new School Streets were put in last July: for St Christopher’s School in Belsize Lane and Maria Montessori in Lyndhurst Gardens.
Camden Council is now asking for feedback via Commonplace.
ANPR cameras haven’t yet been installed (awaited by Camden Council) – but there is also a need to connect the two School Streets to the cycle lane on Haverstock Hill by extending the School Streets area all along Belsize Lane between Lyndhurst Gardens and Haverstock Hill.
Please spare a moment and put in this suggestion via at least one of the links below:
2. Belsize Lane
From London To New York: Can Quitting Cars Be Popular? Despite ongoing pushback, cities worldwide are continuing efforts to reduce traffic by encouraging drivers to switch to greener transport.
India Bourke – bbc.com
Riding the car-reduction curve
The need for change in US urban centres is quite literally in the air. [Exhaust] emissions are akin to “wildfires that are happening on our own streets”, said New York’s governor Kathy Hochul in a press conference celebrating the congestion charge’s federal approval.“Working hours lost sitting in traffic equate to around $20bn [£15.8bn] a year––a complete waste.”
Reforms elsewhere suggest that, despite initial resistance, car reduction plans steadily gain public acceptance in the long run.
Read more on quitting cars
Unravelling The Cycling City – University Of Amsterdam: Course Marco te Brömmelstroet / George Liu / Meredith Glaser
Obscured by its apparent simplicity, cycling is a complex phenomenon. Being an almost perfect human-machine hybrid, cycling is deeply rooted in a plethora of socio-technological systems. Around the world cycling is embraced as an important ingredient to tackle a wide variety of individual and societal challenges.
The Netherlands is often seen as an ideal living lab, because cycling has retained its significant share of mobility throughout the country.
Unraveling the Cycling City bundles the state-of-the-art knowledge that emerges from research and practice on the Dutch cycling system to provide an easily accessible platform.
View the course
Kentish Town Bike Workshop – 11 March Held at Kentish Town Health Centre, Bartholomew Road NW5 2BX on the second Monday of each month from 6:30 to 8:30pm.
Free of charge and you can sign up for monthly notifications . Sign up for monthly notifications.
One participant’s response:
“As well as making me feel welcome, they helped fix the problems with my bike and I learnt a few things as well.
This is a really good initiative and it takes the stress off doing the mechanics. Plus it makes my cycling a lot safer, now the brakes are working properly. It felt like I was cycling on a brand new bike this morning 🙂 “
See the KTBW webpage
Many thanks,
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