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Lewisham
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Spring 2015
Newsletter for Lewisham Cyclists www.lewishamcyclists.co.uk
Deals Gateway: A Campaigning Success! Deal’s Gateway may get back its dedicated green light! So, after months and months of emails, meetings, discussions, even videos made by us to prove beyond a doubt just how dangerous was TfL’s decision to make Greenwich High Rd and Trying to cross the A2 at Deal’s Gateway Deal’s Gateway share a green signal, TfL announced yet another consultation on changes to this junction. They have already tried to modify the junction since their initial changes. But the junction still wasn’t safe. The latest consultation finally includes a proposal to restore the green light for traffic emerging from Deal’s Gateway, a measure we have been asking for since it was first removed. We are pleased about this. It will make the junction so much safer for all traffic, drivers as well as people cycling. It’s just a shame it took TfL so long to see that local people were right after all and that it’s wrong to prioritise increasing traffic flows on major through routes like the A2, over the safety of local people in their own area. Yes, we accept these roads are important for the functioning of our busy city. But the needs, wishes and safety of local people must also be considered as important and taken into serious account. And not before time. I rode through there twice last week and on both occasions had drivers turn right across my right of way, forcing me to swerve and pause, to let them go first. Please go to the consultation site and let them know how important it is to restore this dedicated green to Deal’s Gateway here. The website address is Twitter @lewicyclists Email: [email protected] Telephone: 07826559603 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/72380106728/
Upcoming Rides and Events
Our rides meeting, when we plan the rides programme for the following month, with Greenwich and Bromley Cyclists, is held in the Dog and Bell pub in Prince St Deptford on the last Wednesday of the month at 6.30pm We are planning rides every weekend, some out to Kent, Essex and the other home counties. These tend to be longer rides. At least once a month, more in the summer, we try and include a shorter London based easier ride. We have a Kent ride on the 28th February and a Surrey hills ride on the 7th March. We also meet up for a short ten mile ride every other Tuesday, which ends in a different Lewisham pub each time. The next one is on the 24th February. We always meet on the corner opposite le Delice café in Ladywell for this ride. Our drop in bike workshop sessions also begin in March. Dates for March and April are Grove Park Community Centre (Ringway) 268 Baring Rd, SE12 0DS. March 20th Friday 12.30-‐3pm March 29th Sunday 11am-‐3pm April 17th Friday 12.30-‐3pm Young Lewisham Project, 124, Kilmorie Rd, SE23 2SR 11th March Wednesday 6.30pm-‐9pm 8th April Wednesday 6.30pm-‐9pm (Full details of all these events, and more rides, on our website: http://lewishamcyclists.co.uk/rides-‐ and-‐events/calendar-‐of-‐events/
Our Community Cycle Workshop Opens! Well, finally, after a lot of fund raising, negotiating, planning and sheer hard work, our drop in community bike workshop will open its doors in March.
Ride of the Season We carried on organizing rides throughout the winter, ranging from short pootles in the city, including a lovely trip to
Severndroog Castle. We only had to cancel one ride due to ice and there wasn’t that much of the white stuff either. Our annual Pudding Buster post Christmas ride proved really popular although the weather space which we wasn’t as good as last year. We have a proper workshop space now! can use on the fourth Sunday of the month from 11.30am to 3pm and the We had a great ride in January that third Friday, from 12.30 to 3pm. took us through Hertfordshire, And Young Lewisham Project have kindly opened up their Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. workshop doors to us on every second Wednesday evening from 6.30pm to 9pm. They are not bicycle repair shops. Our workshops, will aim to help you fix your bike (rather than fix it for you). We supply a good range of workshop quality tools and some basic parts, which we will supply at cost price. (listed on our website) Any other larger parts, you would have to provide We climbed Ivinghoe Beacon, the yourself. Donations for tools use, help and advice will be very sun shone and a herd of deer welcome. whisked across the road. Winter Similar projects run in other areas of London, for example riding at its best. Clear, blue skies, the Hackney Bike Workshop, and the London Bike Kitchen, brisk, crisp air and great views at whose staff have been really helpful and supportive to us the top of the climbs. setting up our Lewisham project. Thanks LBK. Do check our website and facebook group for further information. If you think you might want to bring your bike to one of the sessions and want to discuss what you need first, email us on [email protected] Lewisham Cyclists: What We Offer Weekly rides Training: We have a qualified instructor who can Good News! offer training to suit a range of abilities from Lewisham Cyclists are pleased to hear that the absolute beginners to experienced cyclists Mayor of Lewisham has made a borough wide needing help with route planning and difficult commitment to 20mph limit. Enforcing this will road systems make our roads so much safer for all who use Bike workshops: Help, support and tools to get them. you fixing your own bikes And the first of London’s new Quietways will run More information can be found on our website or through our borough. We are looking forward to facebook group or contact us on work beginning on this, in north Deptford soon. One for an inaugural ride when its finished! And after struggling to find a venue for ages, we now have two! First, the Grove Park Community Group have been keen to develop cycling in the area for a while and have converted their garage to a workshop
Lewisham
Rider
Spring 2015
Newsletter for Lewisham Cyclists www.lewishamcyclists.co.uk
Deals Gateway: A Campaigning Success! Deal’s Gateway may get back its dedicated green light! So, after months and months of emails, meetings, discussions, even videos made by us to prove beyond a doubt just how dangerous was TfL’s decision to make Greenwich High Rd and Trying to cross the A2 at Deal’s Gateway Deal’s Gateway share a green signal, TfL announced yet another consultation on changes to this junction. They have already tried to modify the junction since their initial changes. But the junction still wasn’t safe. The latest consultation finally includes a proposal to restore the green light for traffic emerging from Deal’s Gateway, a measure we have been asking for since it was first removed. We are pleased about this. It will make the junction so much safer for all traffic, drivers as well as people cycling. It’s just a shame it took TfL so long to see that local people were right after all and that it’s wrong to prioritise increasing traffic flows on major through routes like the A2, over the safety of local people in their own area. Yes, we accept these roads are important for the functioning of our busy city. But the needs, wishes and safety of local people must also be considered as important and taken into serious account. And not before time. I rode through there twice last week and on both occasions had drivers turn right across my right of way, forcing me to swerve and pause, to let them go first. Please go to the consultation site and let them know how important it is to restore this dedicated green to Deal’s Gateway here. The website address is Twitter @lewicyclists Email: [email protected] Telephone: 07826559603 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/72380106728/
Upcoming Rides and Events
Our rides meeting, when we plan the rides programme for the following month, with Greenwich and Bromley Cyclists, is held in the Dog and Bell pub in Prince St Deptford on the last Wednesday of the month at 6.30pm We are planning rides every weekend, some out to Kent, Essex and the other home counties. These tend to be longer rides. At least once a month, more in the summer, we try and include a shorter London based easier ride. We have a Kent ride on the 28th February and a Surrey hills ride on the 7th March. We also meet up for a short ten mile ride every other Tuesday, which ends in a different Lewisham pub each time. The next one is on the 24th February. We always meet on the corner opposite le Delice café in Ladywell for this ride. Our drop in bike workshop sessions also begin in March. Dates for March and April are Grove Park Community Centre (Ringway) 268 Baring Rd, SE12 0DS. March 20th Friday 12.30-‐3pm March 29th Sunday 11am-‐3pm April 17th Friday 12.30-‐3pm Young Lewisham Project, 124, Kilmorie Rd, SE23 2SR 11th March Wednesday 6.30pm-‐9pm 8th April Wednesday 6.30pm-‐9pm (Full details of all these events, and more rides, on our website: http://lewishamcyclists.co.uk/rides-‐ and-‐events/calendar-‐of-‐events/
Our Community Cycle Workshop Opens! Well, finally, after a lot of fund raising, negotiating, planning and sheer hard work, our drop in community bike workshop will open its doors in March.
Ride of the Season We carried on organizing rides throughout the winter, ranging from short pootles in the city, including a lovely trip to
Severndroog Castle. We only had to cancel one ride due to ice and there wasn’t that much of the white stuff either. Our annual Pudding Buster post Christmas ride proved really popular although the weather space which we wasn’t as good as last year. We have a proper workshop space now! can use on the fourth Sunday of the month from 11.30am to 3pm and the We had a great ride in January that third Friday, from 12.30 to 3pm. took us through Hertfordshire, And Young Lewisham Project have kindly opened up their Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire. workshop doors to us on every second Wednesday evening from 6.30pm to 9pm. They are not bicycle repair shops. Our workshops, will aim to help you fix your bike (rather than fix it for you). We supply a good range of workshop quality tools and some basic parts, which we will supply at cost price. (listed on our website) Any other larger parts, you would have to provide We climbed Ivinghoe Beacon, the yourself. Donations for tools use, help and advice will be very sun shone and a herd of deer welcome. whisked across the road. Winter Similar projects run in other areas of London, for example riding at its best. Clear, blue skies, the Hackney Bike Workshop, and the London Bike Kitchen, brisk, crisp air and great views at whose staff have been really helpful and supportive to us the top of the climbs. setting up our Lewisham project. Thanks LBK. Do check our website and facebook group for further information. If you think you might want to bring your bike to one of the sessions and want to discuss what you need first, email us on [email protected] Lewisham Cyclists: What We Offer Weekly rides Training: We have a qualified instructor who can Good News! offer training to suit a range of abilities from Lewisham Cyclists are pleased to hear that the absolute beginners to experienced cyclists Mayor of Lewisham has made a borough wide needing help with route planning and difficult commitment to 20mph limit. Enforcing this will road systems make our roads so much safer for all who use Bike workshops: Help, support and tools to get them. you fixing your own bikes And the first of London’s new Quietways will run More information can be found on our website or through our borough. We are looking forward to facebook group or contact us on work beginning on this, in north Deptford soon. One for an inaugural ride when its finished! And after struggling to find a venue for ages, we now have two! First, the Grove Park Community Group have been keen to develop cycling in the area for a while and have converted their garage to a workshop
