Your voice for a cycling city

London Cycling Campaign’s regular Local Groups Forum had a record attendance in the week  after the coronavirus lockdown, with more than forty volunteers gathering on a video conference call. The Forum brings together the co-ordinators of LCC's 33 local groups and usually takes place at LCC's office in Wapping. The groups campaign for better cycling conditions and, before the pandemic, ran hundreds of guided free bike rides, bike repair clinics and social events. 

At the meeting local issues were discussed online as was support for people who are currently isolated, communication with volunteers and helping key workers plan trips to work by bicycle. As you can see at the top of the LCC home page, we are running a phone helpline and chatline for anyone who is returning to regular cycling and needs advice  needs advice on cycling . The meeting was also briefed on LCC's significant report on Climate Safe Streets and there was also a discussion of  micromobility and its future. 

Many LCC local groups are using a range of communication channels to get together to provide both mutual support and support to others. Zoom was used to run the very orderly Local Groups Forum but we learned that LCC groups are using the whole gamut of technologies from Google Hangouts and Microsoft Teams to Whats app, Slack and others. LCC members, some of whom are IT professionals and web experts, were providing technical advice and are likely to continue to do so throughout the lockdown.