Click on the names of the boroughs on the map below to see whether your council is taking action to improve the safety of its lorries, and to write to them asking them to support our campaign.
Our Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling campaign calls on every London council to only use the best-equipped lorries and best-trained drivers to help stop cyclists being killed on our streets. Find out more
Forest Redbridge Havering Ealing Brent Camden Islington Hackney Hounslow Hammersmith
& Fulham Kensington
& Chelsea Westminster City Tower
Hamlets Newham Barking Southwark Greenwich Bexley Richmond Wandsworth Lambeth Lewisham Kingston Merton Croydon Bromley Sutton
Enfield
Safer Lorries rating 3/5
Enfield says it is 'supportive' of our 'Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling' pledge and plans to train all its drivers with on-bike cyclist awareness training. However, even though the council achieves some quality assurance, it has no firm commitment to install the latest safety equipment on its lorries.
Write to your council leaderHillingdon
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Hillingdon, which runs its own lorry fleet, provides some quality assurance, but no commitment to the latest safety equipment on all lorries., The borough doesn't offer on-bike cyclist awareness training to its drivers, meaning it has work to do to improve lorry safety.
Write to your council leaderHarrow
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Harrow, which runs its own lorry fleet, provides some quality assurance, but no commitment to the latest safety equipment on all lorries. The borough is not offering on-bike cyclist awareness training to its drivers.
Write to your council leaderBarnet
Safer Lorries rating 3/5
Barnet has a programme to upgrade its lorry fleet to higher safety standards, and has committed to introducing on-bike cyclist-awareness training to its lorry drivers. It has yet to include these measures in its contract conditions.
Write to your council leaderHaringey
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Haringey is offering on-bike cyclist-awareness training to its drivers, and uses one of the better lorry contractors, Veolia, which has a programme to equip its lorries with safety equipment. However, the council itself has not yet reached that level of vehicle safety.
Write to your council leaderWaltham Forest
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
Waltham Forest has recently taken the 'Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling' pledge, which means it commits to only using the best-trained drivers and best-equipped lorries. This will involve a review of their lorry fleet and implementation of on-bike cyclist-awareness driver training.
Write to your council leaderRedbridge
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Redbridge says the it's aiming for a programme to fit safety equipment to its vehicles. Currently, the borough and its main contractor provide some quality assurance, but no commitment to the latest safety equipment on all lorries. The borough doesn't offer on-bike cyclist-awareness training to drivers.
Write to your council leaderHavering
Safer Lorries rating 3/5
Havering has given all its drivers on-bike cyclist-awareness training, but has no commitment to the latest safety equipment for all lorries. Only one of the council's three lorry contractors, Volcker, meets those same standards. The others, Biffa and Marlborough, have not yet made such a commitment.
Write to your council leaderEaling
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
The borough of Ealing has signed the 'Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling' pledge. It has made a commitment to providing on-bike cyclist-awareness training to all its drivers, and its contractor has a programme to fit the latest safety equipment to all its lorries. The council has committed to this too.
Write to your council leaderBrent
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Brent uses one of the better contractors, Veolia, which has a programme to fit safety equipment to its vehicles. The council has made some commitment to these standards, but doesn't offer on-bike cyclist-awareness training to its lorry drivers.
Write to your council leaderCamden
Safer Lorries rating 3/5
Camden offers on-bike cyclist-awareness training to its drivers, but this isn't a requirement for contractors at present. The council's contractor Veolia, has a programme to fit safety equipment to its vehicles, but there's no similar programme to make the council's own vehicles safe in this way.
Write to your council leaderIslington
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
Islington's council leader has taken the 'Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling' pledge. The council will meet the standards for the latest lorry safety equipment as soon as possible and is currently conducting a review of its lorry fleet. On-bike cyclist-awareness training is also planned.
Write to your council leaderHackney
Safer Lorries rating 3/5
Hackney Council helped pioneer on-bike cyclist-awareness training and offers this to its own drivers as well as those working in the borough. Although Hackney achieves some quality assurance, there’s no firm commitment to the latest safety equipment on all lorries.
Write to your council leaderHounslow
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
Hounslow has signed our pledge. It uses a contractor, Sita, which has a programme to fit safety equipment to its vehicles and provides on-bike cyclist-awareness driver training. The borough itself has also committed to a similar programme of lorry safety measures.
Write to your council leaderHammersmith and Fulham
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
We're delighted this council has taken our 'Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling' pledge. It already makes on-bike cyclist-awareness training a condition of lorry contracts and will be training all its own drivers too. It has committed to installing the latest safety equipment on all its lorries and those of its contractor.
Write to your council leaderKensington and Chelsea
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
Kensington and Chelsea has signed our pledge. It already uses one of the better contractors, Sita, which has a programme to fit safety equipment to its vehicles. The council has a commitment to put the latest safety equipment on all its lorries, and to provide on-bike cyclist-awareness training for all drivers.
Write to your council leaderWestminster
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Westminster has arranged to provide on-bike cyclist-awareness training to its lorry drivers and it uses a contractor, Veolia, which has a programme to fit safety equipment to its vehicles. The borough itself however hasn’t yet achieved the same equipment standard for its lorries.
Write to your council leaderCity of London Corporation
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
Uniquely for a London local authority, the City of London Corporation has achieved the highest standard for safety equipment on its vehicles. They have also committed to give on-bike cyclist-awareness training programme for its contracted drivers.
Write to your council leaderTower Hamlets
Safer Lorries rating 3/5
Tower Hamlets uses a lorry contractor, Veolia, that has a programme to fit safety equipment to all its vehicles. The council is embarking on a similar programme and now also offers cyclist-awareness training to its lorry drivers.
Write to your council leaderNewham
Safer Lorries rating 4/5
Although Newham hasn't yet signed our 'Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling' pledge, the council does achieve the highest standard of vehicle safety equipment. It's also offering on-bike cyclist-awareness training to its drivers. It now needs to embed these measures in its conditions of contract.
Write to your council leaderBarking and Dagenham
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Barking and Dagenham has offered on-bike some cyclist-awareness training to its drivers, but it hasn't registered for the quality standard that would ensure the use of only the best-equipped lorries.
Write to your council leaderSouthwark
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
Southwark has taken our 'Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling' pledge. It already provides on-bike cyclist-awareness training for its drivers and uses one of the best contractors, Veolia, which has a programme to fit the latest safety equipment to all vehicles. The council has now committed to achieving that same standard for its own vehicles.
Write to your council leaderGreenwich
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Greenwich is arranging on-bike cyclist-awareness training for its lorry drivers, but scores poorly on the rest of the ‘Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling’ pledge. It hasn’t met industry standards assuring the latest safety equipment on all of its vehicles or driver monitoring.
Write to your council leaderBexley
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Bexley now provides on-bike cyclist-awareness training for its drivers, but hasn’t registering for the quality standard that would ensure the use of only the safest lorries. Its contractor does have a programme to fit safety equipment to its vehicles.
Write to your council leaderRichmond
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Richmond's main contractors, Veolia and Conway, have a programme to fit safety equipment to their vehicles, while the council is working towards that standard. Conway provides on-bike cyclist-awareness training for its lorry drivers, although the council hasn't made this mandatory for all drivers.
Write to your council leaderWandsworth
Safer Lorries rating 1/5
Wandsworth is one of a few London councils that hasn't registered for the quality standard and it doesn't offer on-bike cyclist awareness training to its drivers. Its contractor Serco offers some quality assurance and has a programme to fit safety equipment to its vehicles.
Write to your council leaderLambeth
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
Lambeth has signed our 'Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling' pledge. This council was the pioneer of on-bike cyclist-awareness training, and has extended these courses to all drivers. The council and its contractor, Veolia, both have programmes to fit safety equipment to all their lorries.
Write to your council leaderLewisham
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
Lewisham provides on-bike cyclist-awareness training for its drivers, and has pledged to adhere to a responsible procurement policy and is upgrading its lorry fleet to vehicles with the highest safety equipment.
Write to your council leaderKingston
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
Kingston has taken our Safer Lorries pledge. It already uses a lorry contractor that has a programme to add safety equipment to its vehicles, and it's committed to on-bike cyclist-awareness training for all drivers.
Write to your council leaderMerton
Safer Lorries rating 4/5
Merton has responded very positively to the 'Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling' pledge. They've begun training their drivers to the required standard and are updating their lorry equipment. Most important is the their commitment to improve until they reach the FORS Gold standard. However, we've yet to hear that similar conditions will be part of their procurement process for all contracts.
Write to your council leaderCroydon
Safer Lorries rating 5/5
Croydon has agreed to sign our ‘Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling’ pledge. Council Leader Mike Fisher said, "Not only will we look to incorporate these standards in new contracts, but we’ll also review current ones to see how far we can get towards those standards within current contractual agreements."
Write to your council leaderBromley
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Bromley uses one of the better contractors, Veolia, which has a programme to fit safety equipment to its vehicles. The council offers some quality assurance, but doesn't yet offer on-bike cyclist-awareness training to its lorry drivers.
Write to your council leaderSutton
Safer Lorries rating 2/5
Sutton, which runs its own lorry fleet, provides some quality assurance, but no commitment to the latest safety equipment on all lorries, The borough has yet to offer on-bike cyclist awareness training to its drivers.
Write to your council leader