LCC Press Release - 2nd December 2004
Tom Bogdanowicz, campaigns manager at LCC said: “The Mayor is right to say that there is a shortage of good cycle parking facilities in London – Councils should increase the amount of cycle parkin...
Review of cycling in LondonMany will already know about our campaign success late 2001. LCC successfully lobbied - through its groups, members, activists, friends and contacts - Ken Livingstone to restore an £8million budget for cycling in London...
LCC Press Release - 29th November 2004
Bike owners will find their bikes disappearing from streets and the locks destroyed without compensation if a new bill sponsored by London Boroughs and Transport for London gets through parliament.
And it w...
We want your nominations for the London Cycling Awards. If you know of a promising cycling initiative or facility implemented/ completed since April 2003, here's your chance to reward and encourage good work. The categories this year are:Best Cycl...
The Tour of Britain returned after an absence of five years. Sixteen of the world's top professional cycling teams raced for five stages across Britain. The five stages were in the North West, through Yorkshire, the East Midlands, South Wales, and...
TfL Press release - 23 November 2004 Mayor announces record five-year £758 million funding programme for local transport improvementsSustained local transport investment aims to improve journeys from ‘the moment Londoners’ leave their front door’....
This years winners were presented by Debborah Moggach, cycling author and screenwriter; David Begg, Transport Consultant; Ben Webster, Transport Correspondent for The Times; and Philip Darnton, Chair of the National Cycling Strategy Board.The full...
London Cycling Campaign welcomes the European Commission proposals to make drivers responsible for collisions. Under the proposals there will be a presumption that large vehicles are responsible for collisions with smaller and the onus will be the...
Each workshop is being run through a local time bank - check the table below for your nearest location and contact the time broker to book your place. There are 20 places available at each workshop so please contact the time broker to put your nam...
International and national businesses have just joined London Cycling Campaign’s Corporate Affiliation Scheme. Organisations from all sectors of business have signed up to the benefits of cycling for London. Corporate Affiliates benefit from the w...
LCC says vulnerable roadusers, such as people on bicycles, need greater consideration in a Greater London Assembly Transport Committee Inquiry. Amongst the measures LCC thinks will make road safer for people on bicycles are:20mph speed limit HGV b...
(picture to go in here)The electric Powabyke is designed to bring the benefits of traditional cycling without the effort. A battery driven-motor powers the bike, so no pedalling is necessary to get from A to B. Alternatively, a power-assist mode i...
London Cycling Campaign has responded positively to the Mayor's Plan for London, with three main caveats. Firstly, there needs to be a policy to reduce Londoners' need to travel, secondly, the practicality and provision of cycling and walking need...
London Cycling Campaign research shows that people using the London Cycle Guides are encouraged to get on their bikes for the first time. People already cycling in London are getting on the bikes more, finding new routes around London.The main fin...
The factsThe EU proposals only relate to insurance, not to the underlying legal position in relation to liability. The proposals state that any driver has to have a minimum amount of cover in relation to certain eventualities, including causing pe...
LCC is encouraging everyone who would normally get the tube to avoid the frustrations of the strike and hop on a bike to do their trip rather than get frustrated on a bus or in a car.“Not only will most people’s journeys be quicker by bike”, says ...
Information for conference delegates and pressDue to unprecedented demand, the conference is now fully booked and we are unable to accept more bookings.Conference delegate packs have been mailed to delegates. If you have registered but not receive...
Enjoyable, wonderful, a delight - just some of the words used by people cycling to describe the first day of congestion charging. Here's what they said:“This has been the best day in London cycle commuting history. A wonderful journey (aided by ha...
Mayor Ken Livingstone is to launch the London Cycling Campaign’s All Abilities Cycling Group on Tuesday 25 March. Cycles available for trying at the launch will include hand-cycles, tandems, recumbent cycles, the Duet wheelchair/cycle and side-by-...
Competition was incredibly tough for this year's LCC Awards, which were announced on Saturday 2 November.John Biggs from the Greater London Assembly and Chair of the Transport Committee presented the awards and praised the range and quality of the...
Listeners of BBC Radio 4's Today programme have, almost unanimously voted the bicycle their favourite invention ever.The bicycle received 70% of the vote in the results of an online survey published recently (2/11/2002). The next favoured inventio...
Mayor Ken Livingstone has launched a road safety campaign aimed at Commercial Goods Vehicles and cyclists. In partnership with LCC and the Freight Transport Association, the key message of the campaign is to think about the dangers and be safe.Ma...
What’s Cycle 2002?Cycle 2002 is a new exhibition taking place at the Business Design Centre, London; Friday 27-Sunday 29 September, 10am-6pm (except Sunday 10am-4pm).The show will feature all the current and "soon-to-be-available" develo...
Following a spate of attacks on cyclists in recent weeks, the Metropolitan Police mounted a successful operation to catch the culprits on 25 January.Cyclists and their luggage had become a target for youngsters riding mopeds on two roads in Isling...
More Cycling is the Solution to Obesity Epidemic says Health Select Committee – Opportunity for London. The House of Commons Health Select Committee makes the following statement in its report on obesity (p.116).“If the Government were to achieve ...
The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) welcomes Transport for London figures (released 22 July 2004) which show a record 23% increase in cycling in London over the past year. We believe this is the sharpest one year increase in cycle use ever recorde...
LCC’s 2004 AGM, Awards and celebrity panel discussion was held on Wednesday evening 13th October 2004 at Kings College, Franklin Wilkins Building, 150 Stamford St, SE1The new style AGM in the evening was a success with an increase in attendance u...
This gives our campaign against the legislation more weight. This legislation would give Councils the power to remove any cycles in the vicinity of posted notices where, in their opinion, bikes are a 'nuisance' or offend against 'good management o...
This exciting event is being held at the Business Design Centre, London N1 0QH and is open to the public from Friday 24th September to Sunday 26th September. Tickets to the show can be bought in advance online and for more details about the show v...
On Tuesday 25 March 2003, London Mayor Ken Livingstone launched the London Cycling Campaign's All Ability Cycling Group with the message 'Cycling is for everyone’. The Mayor rode a side-by-side bike with the group’s chair Debbie Allaire (a wheelch...
(picture to go in here)A canal cycle route in East London has been named the capital’s best new cycling facility in the London Cycling Campaign Awards 2003.The new floating towpath on the Limehouse Cut canal was one of five winners named in the aw...
The database that provided the listing for this page has been taken off-line. If you want information about events that took place in 2003, please contact the LCC office.
LCC is organising more than 100 events across the capital for a celebration of cycling during Bike Week. Already thousands of people have turned up for bike events in London this weekend including a bike festival in Trafalgar Square at which the ...
Whilst accepting the Turner Prize this week, British artist Jeremy Deller dedicated it to "everyone who cycles in London".As part of the exhibit at Tate Britain, Southwark Cyclists lead by Barry Mason as Borough Coordinator have organise...
The LCC Website has had a makeover and over the next few weeks we will be testing the new version of the site. You may find at times that some of the pages and features of the old site are not working.
London Boroughs top the UK Cycling Growth LeagueA UK wide comparison of journeys to work by bike shows that London boroughs lead the country in growth terms. The borough of Hackney ranks number one in the UK with six other Inner London boroughs m...
The London Cycling Campaign met all of London's Mayoral candidates and asked them to agree the following 10 point manifesto, and they have.You can still ask your London Assembly member to support cycling by asking them to sign up to this manifesto...
Sunday 3rd September from 9am to 6.30pm, located on the walkway adjacent to The Mall, opposite St James’s Park.BikeFest is a family festival packed with entertainment, activities and advice to get you, your family and friends geared up for cycling...
Transport for London must take urgent action in the wake of a major review of its procedures on road schemes and cycling provision.The independent review by the Transport Research Laboratory for TfL lists 35 recommendations for improvements in TfL...
The redevelopment of the Eastway site will be part of London's 'pre-build' for the Olympics. If the London bid fails some of the planned facilities will never be built. British Cycling is jubilant that the velodrome is a guaranteed construction pr...
The London Cycling Campaign has won the Liveable City Highly Commended Award in recognition of its outstanding contribution to Traffic Reduction and Transport Management.Presenting the award on behalf of the Corporation of London, Jonathan Porrit...
For the second year running, the bicycle has won this national survey of the people's favourite inventions. Professor Wolff's praise of the bicycle followed a vote prompted by this year's Reith Lectures, 'The Trumph of Technology'. Out of over 4,5...
These awards aim to raise awareness of successful schemes or projects that are making a positive contribution to cycling. They are jointly run by CTC, the national cyclists' organisation and the CCN, the federation of cycle campaign groups.This ye...
LCC is organising more than 100 events across the capital to celebrate cycling during Bike Week. Visit the Bike Week website for details of all these events.The flagship event for 2005 is BikeFest. This festival is to take place in Trafalgar Squar...
What is this initiative?The Metropolitan Police in partnership with the Tower Hamlets Market Inspectors have been working for a number of months seizing suspected stolen pedal cycles from illegal street traders in Brick Lane Market, in order that ...
Waltham Forest Council beat off tough competition from other boroughs including Ealing and Lambeth and the Royal Parks Partnership to scoop this prestigious award. The results were announced at an awards ceremony held at Hilton Park Lane Hotel, Lo...
On Monday 18th April TfL launched a new campaign to get Londoners out on their bikes. They have commissioned three 'infocommercials' which will be shown on ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 for two weeks from 18th April. These one minute films feature ...
With a General Election being a distinct possibility this year, cycle campaign groups have jointly called for actions at a national level for the new government to promote cycling.Cycling is fast, fun, keeps you fit and it is free (well almost!). ...
LCC believes that cyclists should be allowed to judge whether or not to use cycling facilities, including cycle lanes. This is because cyclists have the same entitlement to use the roads as motorists and cycle facilities may be poorly-designed or ...
Make a date in your diary for Sunday 3rd September. That's the day the Tour of Britain comes to town with a brand new 80km route taking in London's key landmarks.New routeStarting in Greenwich Park, some of the world's top pro cyclists will then r...
An unworkable scheme to register cycles in London and fit them with number plates could bring the welcome growth in London cycling to a sharp halt. Mayor of London proposes registering cyclistsThe scheme was proposed by Ken Livingstone, Mayor of L...
National Bike Week organisers say that across Britain Bike Week had 1,626 events registered by 1,125 organisers. According to the figures provided by local organisers, there were approximately over quarter of a million participants.A brief sample ...
Fifteen local Bengali women in Tower Hamlets became the first to benefit from a new bicycle training project called "Jagonari Cycles".The women, all relatively novice on two wheels, will receive free training and access to a pool of bike...
LCC's AGM is taking place on Wednesday 22 November 2006. The date for nominations and motions has now passed.This year's AGM will concentrate on the theme of women and cycling. Our all-female celebrity panel will put forward their ideas and sugges...
The deadline for nominations has now passed, so make sure you don't miss the awards ceremony at this year's AGM. The categories this year are:Best Cycle FacilityBest Community Cycling InitiativeBest Cycling Initiative for Young People or Children ...