Estimates vary from 500 to 2000 but whatever the true number, a massive number of London cyclists occupied the whole of Blackfriars Bridgeon Friday night as a protest against Transport for London's plans to proceed with the flawed design for th...
We invited all 11,000 members to play their part in choosing our main theme for our 2012 Mayoral Election Campaign.
Voting ends on Monday 1 August, so you've only got a few days to have your say.
NB: On 5 July all members were sent an email fr...
London Cyclists from all walks of life will meet outside Doggetts at the south end of Blackfriars Bridge tomorrow (Friday 29 July 2011) to show their anger at the Mayor and Transport for London.
There'll be a slow ride across the bridge in each...
The Barclays Cycle Hire scheme is due to expand westwards to Wandsworth, Hammersmith & Fulham, Lambeth and Kensington & Chelsea by 2013.
Additional funding of £25 million is being provided by Barclays, and the Westfield shopping c...
Transport for London is ignoring the London Assembly's all-party call for a review of Blackfriars Bridge and a retention of the 20mph speed limit.
TfL has issued a press release saying that it will start works on the bridge this Friday, 31 July...
Anyone trying to walk or cycle across Burgess Park during the last few days has found an increasing number of obstacles in their way, as Southwark Council fences and boards off large parts of the green space in preparation for major works.
Comm...
This contractor has decided that cycling through a 2m-wide gap is too difficult for most people.
There was no-one there to ask when this photo was taken by an LCC member, but we're tracking down the contractor to see if we can get the signs rem...
London Bridge station is the latest central location due to be subject to a massive redevelopment, but there are serious concerns about the possible removal of cycle routes and lack of attention to dangerous junctions in the area.
(View our off...
PHOTO: We presented our petition and petition photo collage to London Assembly members to encourage them to support our Blackfriars demands
Conservative members joined all other parties in the London Assembly to call for a review of plans to sc...
In May 2004 over a thousand cyclists joined the mass ride memorial to Vicki McCreery who died under the wheels of a bus as she cycled across Blackfriars Bridge.
Her friend Kirsten sent us this video of the memorial ride:
Vicki was the second c...
We've today responded to Transport for London's draft Network Operating Strategy consultation (download our response).
We've highlighted many of its flaws here.
If you want to respond too, you might want to use the letter below as a template a...
London Mayor Boris Johnson is resisting calls for 20mph limit on Blackfriars but says "more work" is needed to improve conditions for cyclists.
Responding to London Assembly member Jenny Jones, Johnson said, “More work needs to be done on c...
Today we've responded to Transport for London's draft strategy explaining how it intends to manage traffic on London's major road network for the foreseeable future.
It's called the Network Operating Strategy.
You can download the LCC obj...
A new ‘Trafalgar Square’, a people-friendly space in a run-down area of South London: surely this is something our Mayor would embrace?
Elephant and Castle has become the latest victim of Transport for London and the Mayor’s s...
Former traffic engineer and committee member of Cambridge Cycling Campaign, Jim Chisholm, has written to his local MP to warn of the dangers of longer lorries.
Worryingly, the letter raises very serious questions about the safety of introducing l...
Yesterday, a person with the Twitter handle @Pumpkii reported seeing a female cyclist being dragged under a lorry at Blackfriars junction, and somehow escaping unharmed.
The crash took place on New Bridge Street, on the southbound approach to the...
London’s two newest Cycle Superhighways, 2 and 8, are being launched this week.
It's disappointing that both will stop short of their original planned destinations.
In both cases local authorities, Newham and Westminster, appear to be the ...
Our 2012 Election Campaign vote has only been open five days and already 500 members have taken part.
We asked you the question: "If you could choose one thing that Boris Johnson, Ken Livingstone and the other mayoral candidates should do to prom...
Check out some more ride photos
Cycling development officer Gerhard Weiss writes:
On the hottest day of the year a fine bunch of cyclists joined our very first Summer Ride.
Starting at the London Eye, Tom Bogdanowicz was not only an insp...
On Wednesday 6 July 2011, around 100 people crammed into Honor Oak Crematorium to hear words of farewell from family and friends for Barry Mason, former coordinator of Southwark Cyclists who died suddenly on holiday last month.
Those attending ...
The motion asking the Mayor to retain the 20mph limit at Blackfriars is being reintroduced in the London Assembly on the 20 July 2011.
If you haven't already, please sign our petition supporting it (and you can post a photo too, if yo...
In 2004, after two cyclists were killed on Blackfriars Bridge, Transport for London (TfL) recognised that its procedures for providing for cyclists were seriously flawed.
Following the second of these cyclist deaths, that of Vicki McCreery, TfL p...