Tower Hamlets Council staff are riding high in the list of workforces using bikes, after registering the highest number of miles cycled during this year’s Workplace Cycle Challenge. Of the 24 London councils taking part in the Challenge, where st...
Green shoppers are being rewarded for leaving their cars at home by Sutton Council’s Walk Cycle Reward scheme.The scheme is offered on different dates between June and August in Rosehill, Worcester Park, Wallington and Carshalton. Reward cards of...
Two photographers have been praised for celebrating the normality of cycling in European cities.Trevor Parsons of LCC's local group in Hackney said, "These pictures are great: they show normal people in normal clothes doing normal things. To...
Bike and Kite festival to celebrate the start of Bike Week 2009The Blackheath Kite and Bike Festival took place in South East London on a sunny weekend marking the start of Bike Week on 13th and 14th of June.The heath was awash with bikes, and, yo...
photo Tyssen School in Hackney won two awards from its borough for its cycling clubTyssen Community Primary School in north-east London was celebrating last month after winning two awards from the Borough of Hackney’s School Travel Plan Awards.The...
West London to host hundreds of cyclists at Hounslow Skyride On Sunday 9th August six miles of roads in West London will be closed to traffic and instead of cars, families and individuals on bikes will take to the streets in a localised version of...
photo An LCC-led project at a school in Hillingdon became a fo cus for cycle trainingAn LCC-led project at a school in Hillingdon became a focus for cycle training for a day last month when three other local schools joined in the fun.Field End Jun...
Photo Cycling members of the Metropolitan police pose in front of a lorry used to raise cyclist awareness LCC joined forces with the police to hand out free cycling safety advice at an event in Russell Square in July 2009.The police had arran...
LCC has won funding for two community cycling projects that were founded using money from the Community Cycling Fund.Pedal4HealthPedal4Health has successfully bid for funding from Capital FM’s Help a London Child.The project delivers cycle trainin...
Always a bit of a gamble putting on an outdoor event during an English summer but the community team's picnic in St James Park attracted 25 cyclists who were promptly rewarded with some late summer sunshine.The afternoon provided an informal and r...
photo David Rosenberg, aka the Pink Plinther, will ride a pink Brompton spewing bubbles to celebrate London cycling Three participants of Anthony Gormley's One & Other artwork will use their hour on Trafalgar Square's fourth plinth to support ...
photo Two riders show their elation at completing the 116-mile night ride to Suffolk An estimated 1000 cyclists rode through the night during the Dunwich Dynamo from London Fields to Dunwich, Suffolk, on Saturday 4 July 2009. The riders enjoyed a...
Londoners are invited to nominate the capital's best cycling projects with the launch of the London Cycling Awards 2009.The awards, run by the London Cycling Campaign, recognise the best contributions to the growth of cycling in the capital.Anyone...
photo The Bike Pod parking system takes up only a single car parking space yet stores up to 10 bikes An Australian company has come up with a new high-tech, eco-friendly bike facility called the Bikepod. Although some of the solar-powered features...
photo LCC wants every London lorry driver to receive cycle-awareness training, like those in Lambeth
LCC is calling on every lorry driver to be given cycle-awareness training, and has praised Lambeth Council for leading the way in Lon...