Take action: support cycle tracks in Camden & Hackney today
Two schemes, two minutes apiece. Please respond today so we can make sure these good schemes happen and don’t get derailed by cabbies, local residents worried about parking etc…
1. Lea Bridge to Dalston
Click here to see the scheme and here to go straight to the consultation response form.
This scheme is set to take Waltham Forest’s amazing, award-winning mini-Holland Lea Bridge Road scheme from the edge of the borough and extend it up and over the hated Lea Bridge Roundabout, with cycle tracks all the way round.
The scheme then goes through a new modal filter and off to Downs Park and then to Dalston. It’s not a perfect scheme, but it’s well worth supporting. And while you’re at it, consider asking (in your own words) for more traffic reduction around the Chatsworth and Powerscroft Road areas, and to take some motor traffic lanes on the roundabout so the scheme doesn’t just deliver safe cycling, but also walking improvements too!
Click here to see the scheme and here to go straight to the consultation response form.
Please respond today, consultation closes 16 December.
2. Gray’s Inn Road
Click here to see the scheme and here to go straight to the consultation response form.
Camden, meanwhile, are proposing to tame just over a kilometre of Gray’s Inn Road from near King’s Cross (and the Tavistock Place scheme) to High Holborn for both those walking and cycling.
The scheme features continuous footways, bus stop bypasses and cycle tracks, up to 2m wide in each direction. The main remaining issue is that there are risks from turning motor vehicles riding out of Calthorpe Street, Guildford Street and across the mouth of Sidmouth Street. Also the track could and should be a bit wider where possible. However, again, these are smaller details and overall the scheme is well worth supporting – particularly as it’s likely that taxi drivers will be dead set against it.
Click here to see the scheme and here to go straight to the consultation response form.
Please respond today, consultation closes 20 December.