According to reports on the BikeBiz website, the Coalition Government is on the point of creating a new £1 billion 'Office for Active Travel' (OAT) to promote cycling and walking policy across ministries. The OAT is likely to receive cros...
An all-party group of MPs has ended a four-month Parliamentary enquiry into cycling by publishing a report calling on the Coalition Government to start a Dutch-style cycling revolution. Campaigning journalists from the The Times newspaper, whic...
Last year, London Cycling Campaign and On Your Bike teamed up with NHS Greenwich Greenwich Public Health and Wellbeing Team to deliver a new scheme aimed to help get more people cycling. Read more about the scheme here. The hugely succesful...
LCC campaigner Susie Morrow helped formulate new national guidelines to promote walking and cycling During 2012, I was one of two ‘community members’ working with the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to p...
London Cycling Campaign's Board of Trustees Chair, Ann Kenrick, recounts her epic cycling journey to Paris. At this time of year with the wind howling – great if it is behind your back but not if you are trying to get home from work and c...
A new report released by the Policy Studies Institute shows 48% of primary school children would like to cycle to school but only 4 per cent are actually doing so. Over the last four decades, a large reduction in children’s independent mo...
Station Road, Motspur Park, West Barnes, KT3, in the West Barnes Library
National and local governments should encourage improved public health by making walking and cycling more attractive to everyone, as has been done on the Continent, according a new report by the National Institute for Health Clinical Excellence ...
A new report from the London School of Economics says even the UK's current low levels of cycling generate nearly £3 billion for our economy. As well as providing 23,000 jobs in the cycling industry, the report lists other major benefits fr...
photo H2 An artists' impression of the new gym in Soho, which will offer "secure' bike parking" A private gym opening in Soho in April 2011 will have 230 secure bike parking spaces and 40 showers, aiming to attract a slice of London's burgeon...
photo The downward dog pose. Verity, a cyclist and a yoga teacher, is keen to share the benefits of Yoga for cyclists. For regular cyclists, it is important to have a well adjusted bike to avoid back and nec...
photo The H2 cycle-friendly gym in Soho now offers great discounts for new and existing LCC members LCC members can now enjoy big savings at the new cycle-friendly H2 gym in Soho, with 10% off the peak monthly fee and no joining fee, PLUS the f...
photo A new report from the London Assembly, Tipping the Scales condemns the lack of action on obesity A new report commissioned by the London Assembly's Health & Public Services Committee, shows that Greater London has the worst chi...