August 2025 Newsletter
from the local group of
London Cycling Campaign in Camden
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- Consultations: Gordon Street and Shoreditch High Street
- Celebrating York Way & Camden Square: social event 31st August
- LCC Bike Bus marshalling with Camden Bike Bus & NW Pedal Express
- Mayor Hidalgo & Dr. Maria Neira (WHO) in dialogue – Q & A video
- Vision Zero plans to cut London road deaths: Caroline Russell AM
- Camden High Street: Twitter posts by @modacitylife and @TheLCAI
- Wandsworth Mass Cycle Ride & Rally – rescheduled for 23 August
- Cycling @Tea-time events: Political Will & UniCycle launch: Tues 2nd Sep
- Hackney Council to cap E-bike hire costs
- Partnership for Active Travel & Health (PATH) Online Event 9th Sep
- TfL Go journey planner adds cycleways
- Ghost bike memorial removed by ‘grossly insensitive’ council
- Wider Cycling News
Consultations: Gordon Street and Shoreditch High Street Transforming Gordon Street & Gordon Square west; positive changes, but falls short of an LTN. This was discussed at Monday’s CCC meeting (18/8) CCC response here
Have your say here by 29th August
Shoreditch High St & Great Eastern St with some of London’s heaviest cycling rates and also with some of most dangerous junctions.
Have your say on Shoreditch High Street here
Celebrating York Way & Camden Square: social event 31st August Come and celebrate the new York Way cycle lanes and Camden Square (C50) improvements on Sunday 31st August at 2pm.
Gather at Camden Square Gardens, and set off in small groups, in your own time, to use the nearby York Way lanes, and heading for Granary Square, Kings Cross.
See the post about the cycle social on Bluesky
LCC ride marshalling for Bike Buses introduction: North West Pedal Express & Camden Bike Bus The course is run by LCC instructors and hosted by North West Pedal Express Bike Bus & Camden Bike Bus.
The course applies the skills and techniques for running or supporting Bike Buses in the context of an existing Bike Bus in North West London.
Session 1. Tues 16th Sep, 5pm-8pm: Learn and practice skills and discuss elements of the route.
Time & location approx. 5pm-8pm, Camden or Kentish Town tbc
SESSION 2. Friday 19th Sep, 7am-9am: Group leads the real bike bus to school on Friday morning.
Camden or Kentish Town tbc
Find out more about the Bike Bus marshal training
Mayor Hidalgo & Dr. Maria Neira (WHO): on health, clean air & climate resilience – Q & A video This dialogue aims to inspire mayors and urban leaders around the world by showcasing how bold city-level policies and interventions can promote health, sustainability, and wellbeing.
Drawing key insights from the transformative urban agenda of Mayor Anne Hidalgo: how cities can empower citizens, reduce health inequalities and build healthier environments.
See the WHO page & watch the recording
Vision Zero plans to cut London road deaths: Caroline Russell AM TfL is updating its Vision Zero strategy, and Caroline Russell, wants schemes like Tottenham Court Road, Bank junction, Stoke Newington Church Street and Bishopsgate, replicated more widely, for an interim 64% killed or seriously injured (KSI) cut by 2030, so TfL can reach zero by 2041.
“Most main roads in London could move to having a maximum of one lane for private motor traffic in each direction, protected cycle lanes, wider pavements and deliveries from side roads. The CCZ operating hours need to extend to evenings, along with higher charges for heavier private motor vehicles.
Read the Changing The Narrative report
Camden High Street on Twitter
Thread by @modacitylife
Post by @TheLCAIAuthors of ‘Building the Cycling City & ‘Curbing Traffic, Melissa & Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife, have included the new car-free section, in their series of threads about vibrant, transformational city places.
- North London’s acclaimed attraction—is conducting a 12-month trial to rebalance the public realm in favour of people instead of motors.
- With up to 40,000 peak time visitors, pavements would spill onto the road. 70%+ support pedestrianisation.
- The trial will be tweaked and monitored before a final decision That could turn a celebrated but overcrowded corridor into a place/community-focused space––a powerful example for human-centric streets in a city that sorely lacks them.
The London Clean Air Initiative @TheLCAI posts: “We hit the streets to hear what you think about the new pedestrianisation of Camden High Street. Hear from residents, workers, and tourists on why they love it. Let us know what you think in the replies!
Read London Clean Air Initiative’s post here
Wandsworth Mass Cycle Ride & Rally – rescheduled for 23 August This family-friendly ride and event will now take place on Saturday 23rd August; to highlight air pollution and demand council action.
Meet 10:30am for an 11am start, car park in Battersea Park, SW11 (Carriage Drive North, Chelsea Bridge entrance).
Rally with speakers:12pm, Garratt Lane Old Burial Ground (opps. Southside Shopping Centre, SW18 4AD)
Register here for the Wandsworth Mass Ride
Cycling @Tea-time events: Political Will & UniCycle launch Two events billed for 2nd September:
- UniCycle launch & campaign planning event: networking London’s higher education institutions for safer cycling across the city; 3:00 to 4:30, Russell Square.
- Political will: essential for cycling progress; 5.30pm: Special guest speakers:
- Dr Louise Reardon Prof. of Governance & Public Policy, Birmingham University; expert on transport governance
- Simon Munk LCC Head of Campaigns & Community Development, creator of Pathway Approach––diagnosing a LA’s cycling position to inform campaign strategy.
Hackney Council to cap E-bike hire costs
Read the Evening Standard article here
Partnership for Active Travel & Health (PATH) Online Event 9th September Third Annual Online Symposium: “Walking and Cycling: Leading the way to more sustainable and healthier communities”. Free online event from PATH, Tues 9 Sep, 2pm – 4:30pm
- How top decision-makers champion walking & cycling in their cities and countries
- Effective walking & cycling actions towards climate, health & liveable city goals
- Activities & engagement for COP30, Belém, Brazil
Register here for the PATH online event
TfL Go journey planner adds cycleways
Cycleways are signposted cycle routes across London, offering safer and more comfortable city cycling.
More information on TfL cycleways here
Ghost bike memorial removed by ‘grossly insensitive’ Tower Hamlets council Around 900 riders, participating in July’s London Critical Mass bike ride, gathered at Cable Street,both to honour the memory of Matheus Piovesan, 36, who was killed here on July 6, 2024, and also to demand a replacement of the memorial white ghost bike (an old bike spray-painted white, with a picture of Matheus), without consulting friends or family last October.
Nobody appears to have been charged in connection with Mr Piovesan’s death. Friends and campaigners say the ghost bike may have encouraged witnesses to come forward––while also reminding drivers to slow down.
Read the Evening Standard article
Wider Cycling News ++ Adam Tranter, Fusion Media CEO, and former Cycling & Walking ‘Tsar’ to Andy Street, listened in to Madame Mayor Hidalgo’s dialogue with WHO’s Dr. Maria Neira (above). He responds below with:
Five things UK Cities could learn from Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo.
- You need political will, but that alone is not enough.
- “The car is not just a car”. It symbolises power, freedom and, masculinity. It is never simply about street layouts or emissions. It is a challenge to a deeply embedded status quo.
- Cities cannot wait for national governments to act
- Health is the most persuasive argument we have
- We need more women Mayors
++ Continuing this all important gender theme,
Laura Laker speaks with Melissa Bruntlett
about the topics in her upcoming book: “Women Changing Cities: Global Stories of Urban Transformation.” Listen at Streets Ahead Podcast@podstreetsahead
- Cities are, very often, run by blokes, designed by blokes, for other blokes.
- Often overlooked is the role women play in making cities better.
- Melissa and Chris’s book is out in October, and is about the city leaders, who happen to be women, shifting the dial on transport and equity around the world.
++ Another current topic of concern is subsidies. As e-cars receive more cash incentives that perpetuate the vicious cycle of negative impacts, what would happen if E Bikes were to receive some government assistance?
We need Road Traffic Reduction, not replacementsays @CANSEEngland
++ All the more sensible-sounding when you consider that Car ownership eats up a quarter of poorest households’ income
A new report warns that the UK transport system is deepening poverty and social exclusion, leaving low-income households cut off from jobs, services and opportunity.
++ Which reminds us of last November’s epic Chinese night rides by thousands of students cycling 37 miles on low-rental-cost E Bikes: and ultimately depicted quite negatively in the world’s media (“motor traffic chaos” … “poverty stricken and foolish students” etc). The rides were largely halted by largely over-cautious authorities perhaps?.
So what happened next? How do things look for cycling in China?
fj @gecko39 puts it this way: “Bicycle kingdoms should be developing totally safe, fast, low-cost, rapid build & deploy bike systems to truly address climate action at scale … regeneration ending the climate crisis in one generation.”
“YOUR BIKE IS A GLOBAL WARMING SOLUTION LESS = MORE Social & physical tipping dynamics on massive scales”
Well yes … exactly!
++ But the last word goes to (for one more time), Melissa, and Chris Bruntlett @modacitylife, this time on how China’s comeback as the Bicycle Kingdom is happening at a momentous scale!
In Beijing, 3200 km of routes have been built, with 200 km added each year. Youtube video here.
It is a significant course correction—an admission, that cities with more cycling work better for everyone.
Many thanks,
Camden Cyclists
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