London Cycling Campaign HGV group representatives visited Road Safety Minister Jim Fitzpatrick to discuss the implementation of the EU Directives designed to make London lorries less dangerous to cyclists.The meeting was a response to the high pro...
There has been a mixed reaction from cyclists to the mayor's policy preview document Way To Go, which maps out the current administration's plans for transport in the capital. Anyone can email in their comments by 16th January to waytogo@london.go...
After over two years in charge, Lyn Eyb, the editor of London Cyclist magazine, is moving overseas.Therefore, LCC is looking for a new freelance editor to take the helm of its popular members' magazine.For more details about the magazine and to do...
The second window for applications for community cycling projects is about to open, from 16 to 27 March 2009.The grants are allocated by LCC, funded by the Active Travel Consortium and Community Cycling Fund for London (CCFfL).Community groups tha...
To mark the end of a successful year of events and campaigning, LCC has sent a video message to Boris Johnson, where you get your chance to say how you'd like to improve London for cyclists. To watch our video, follow the link on the right.
Tim Mitchell, our member survey competition winnerOne lucky member who responded to our online survey has won £200 to spend at any bike shop.Tim Mitchell, a retired PR professional who lives in Tooting, posed happily one damp morning in December, ...
The view from one the downward-facing mirrors fitted to all new HGVs, but still absent from thousands of older vehicles'Lorries aren't designed for city streets' is the impression LCC got when we were given the chance to sit inside one. The high p...
In tough economic times, it's worth knowing that adding cycle storage to your property might help you sell it. It's now compulsory for home sellers to provide home information packs (HIPs), which include a sustainability index (from zero to six), ...
The decision to scrap the western extension to the congestion charge zone will be bad for London, and that’s according to the mayor’s own consultation document. Congestion and pollution will rise, while revenue will decrease says the mayor's Septe...
The hundreds of cyclists who ride around central London during the impromptu Critical Mass cycle rides do not have to give advance notice to the police, the Law Lords have ruled. The rides, which start on the South Bank by the National Theatre on ...
Cycle route funding for London boroughs has been slashed in half undermining the mayor’s plans to more than treble cycling levels in the capital.The London Cycling Campaign, representing the interests of thousands of cyclists, says hundreds of pla...
Children from the Hackney Family Cycle Club at the London Cycling Awards 2008The best innovative new cycling schemes won London Cycling Awards presented at the 2008 LCC AGM at City Hall.Among the winners were: a family cycling club project that br...
The number of cyclists injured in England dropped during 2007 according to official figures.Health Minister Ben Bradshaw said 13,368 cyclists were admitted to hospital in 2006-7, compared with 13,533 in 2005-6.The number is almost 25 percent highe...
Koy Thomson writes on the Progressive London website:"This story starts with a dodgy dossier, an election, and a hard-done-by section of the electorate - hardly fertile ground for progressive policy. Post-Obama, it's not fashionable to be pol...
The major cycle projects the mayor suppports in his Way To Go transport paper could fail without the right supporting measures.The projects' success will depend on the continuation of existing cycling programmes to deliver growth in cycle use, acc...