London Cycling Campaign has expressed concern that the new junction design on the western side of Bow roundabout, which opened on Friday 1 June 2012, isn’t making cycling eastwards significantly safer because of flaws in its design and a l...
An extra £15 million has been announced in the 2012 budget for making London's worst junctions less dangerous for cycling. Although the extra money is welcome, the figure was described by LCC's campaign officer Charlie Lloyd on the ...
Transport for London has started a review that will consider safety issues at all junctions on the cycle superhighways as well as more than a hundred junctions on the Transport for London road network (red routes). The TfL announcement follows th...
Family, friends, local residents, politicians, campaigners and concerned Londoners gathered near the place on Tower Bridge Road where cyclist Ellie Carey was struck by a lorry on Friday 2 December 2011. The crowd observed a minute's silence in ...
This morning a cyclist was killed in a collision with an HGV at the junction of Tower Bridge Road and Abbey Street, a location identified as dangerous by local people. Please support calls for safer junctions in London In response to worries ...
Today London's Mayor Boris Johnson questioned the wisdom of redesigning the city's worst junctions, despite two recent cyclist fatalities at junctions where campaigners had warned of road danger. We wrote to TfL in February 2011 to highli...
Earlier this week, in the Guardian Bike Blog, journalist Matthew Wright made several incorrect assumptions about our 'Go Dutch' campaign. We're pleased the media are so interested in our campaign (it doesn't launch officially until January), bu...
photo Hundreds of protestors demonstrated against the latest designs proposed for Blackfriars Bridge What the hundreds of cyclists who demonstrated on Blackfriars Bridge this morning might not know is that, four years ago, Transport for Londo...
LCC has criticised Transport for London's latest proposals for Blackfriars Bridge, which condemn Londoners to continue cycling through a 'motorway' in order to cross the river, potentially for decades to come. Read the proposal here We thank L...
A popular commuter cycling route along Tavistock Place is to be improved after extensive campaigning by Camden Cyclists, the local LCC group. The improvement is at the junction of Marchmont St and Tavistock Place, part of a controversial segregat...
photo The Tottenham Hale scheme will return over two miles of one-way streets to two way Works have started on the A10 High Road, Haringey, which will return streets to two-way traffic, though campaigners say no enough is being done to encourag...
photo The redesign on the southbound lanes on Blackfriars Bridge do very little to protect cyclists Back in 2004, a Transport for London inquiry into two cyclist fatalities on Blackfriars Bridge found that consultation failure and poor ...
Transport for London has promised a review of "the widespread road layout" in response to campaigners' criticisms of the plans for Blackfriars Bridge, which fail to adequately address cyclist safety. An LCC activist has received a reply ...
photo Proposals to change Holborn Circus would block a valuable north-south cycle route LCC is calling on cyclists to object to changes to Holborn Circus junction which would block a popular north-south cycle route from Camden to Farringdon. ...
photo Cyclists must email Transport for London to prevent Blackfriars Bridge becoming more hazardous Friday 15 April is the last day you can email (STengagement@tfl.gov.uk) Transport for London to protest against a new design for Blackfr...