City of London Cycling Campaign

So I started looking into this to outline the conspiracy theory. But what I found was a genuinely beautiful piece of practical idealism. A small, attainable progressive change that would hugely improve people's lives. I was inspired by it.

Meanwhile Fore St (part of north south cycle route thru City) is completely closed with a plethora of signs but not one indication of where to go if you are on a bike.

Yes this is typical. And if you proceed up to turn right into Charterhouse St you are stuck at a two phase right turn with no visible signal, because the temporary lights are behind you.

I walked the length of Wilson Street and Paul Street to a meeting this morning. Two local authorities, but a complete failure in accessibility from end to end on both sides.

More surfaces uneven than even. Terrible dropped kerbs throughout. Missing dropped kerbs on desire lines which don't

Cycle Movement Strategy Phase 3: Bayswater Road The Bayswater Road Cycle Movement Strategy Phase 3 scheme looks to enhance cycling and pedestrian facilities in both directions along Bayswater Road, from Palace Court to Lancaster Terrace.

⏰⚠️⏰⚠️ ALERT! The Bayswater road consultation is under heavy threat despite the obvious benefits. The weekend saw 400+ responses and it's IMPERITIVE we show strong support ahead of the WEDS 28th DEADLINE. Please take a moment to add your voice here: cmsbayswaterroad.commonplace.is/en-GB/
💪🚴💪
More ⬇️

They really are saying, without any shame or self awareness, that it should be a political priority for DfT to spend hundreds of millions of pounds of scarce public money on engineering an ailing wrought iron Victorian monument to be able to carry SUVs between two of the UK’s richest neighborhoods

Quite dispiriting really to watch a parade of Labour and Lib Dem politicians who should know better embrace post-truth era and repeat falsehoods in service of a wildly expensive, climate and air quality trashing road building scheme to funnel more motor traffic back into inner London from the shires

This great news. Well done!

Bank Junction Taxi Access We have started a trial to allow licensed taxis (black cabs) to travel across Bank Junction on weekdays - share your feedback now.

The City's traffic reduction objectives laid out in their Transport and Vision Zero Strategies have gone into reverse in recent months. It's time for a u-turn.

bank-taxi.commonplace.is

Fwiw workers on site yesterday said the c3 c6 cycle link would reopen 'in a couple of months'. The sooner the better!

Details of Hackney burns night on 24 January

Cheer up these grey days by getting a ticket for @hackneylcc.bsky.social - great fun, good food and fab band

@londoncycling.bsky.social
@citylcc.bsky.social
@camdencyclists.bsky.social

Regent's canal is a popular🚴‍♀️route - efficient, vehicle free & scenic. But cycling after dark vs during the day feels a vastly different proposition. How socially safe would you feel here at night? @londoncycling.bsky.social volunteers tested 2 new proposed routes to bypass the canal ⬇️

This reversed the original decision of the committee, it having been pushed back by the Planning and Transport committee. Is the CoL no longer seriously aiming for traffic reduction? 🙄

Disappointing back sliding as the City of London Streets and Walkways committee resolve to keep Old Jewry open to southbound traffic. What's not to like about a rat run spewing traffic across the Cheapside pavement.

Look like the deep shaft on Arthur St that went down to the 🚂 station below has finally been (or is almost) closed up.

The planned changes at the bridge end of the road will hopefully follow soon.
@raynoldchow.bsky.social @edmondchuihw.bsky.social

Graph showing the annial distance cycled in the UK in billions of kilometres. It falls from high levels in the late 1940s and very early 1950s to a minimum in 1975. There was a little boom in the mid 1980s falling again by 1993. There is then a slow annual increase with an upward blip for Covid. In top of this I have drawn two lines, one the growth in cycling on the Wilmslow Road corridor in Manchester and the other in the City of London, showing what would happen if cycling in the whole country grew at the rates seen there. The amount of cycling would be back to the 1950 level

The diagram shows, in black, the national annual distance cycled. On top of this I have drawn the growth rates seen in the City of London and Wilmslow Road in Manchester. A few schemes see a phenominal growth (the heavy lifting) but there aren't enough of them (yet) to affect the national picture.

The last two drop in sessions for the Fenchurch St Healthy Streets consultation are today Wed 8 Oct 12:30pm-2pm at 30 Fenchurch Street and tomorrow Thur 9 Oct 12:30pm-2pm at America Square (under the railway viaduct).

A map of the area between Fenchurch Street and Tower Hill in the City of London

It's time to put in your suggestions to the Fenchurch St Healthy Streets Plan to improve cycle provision in the area between Fenchurch Street and Lower Thames Street in the City of London.
This early consultation closes Fri 17 October.

www.cityoflondon.gov.uk/services/str...

Have been promised that the no cycling sign will be removed ;)

Yesterday the 10 King William St construction site team changed the taper-line with their cones and barriers so north bound buses aren't being encouraged so much into the cycle lane. Hopefully this will resolve much of the encroachment problem....

Person on bike has a foot in the kerb as they avoid a bus veering into the cycle lane adjacent to the 10 King William Street development site

People cycling south down King William Street are being pushed out of the new mandatory cycle lane by buses heading up to Bank Junction.😕 Needs some wands?!

King William Street looking North with concrete core of the building site at 10 KWS rising up on the left hand side and one way traffic lane adjacent.

Good news! It's been confirmed this morning that contraflow cycling will return to King William Street next Monday, assuming that the road surfacing goes as planned this weekend.

I love the Strand Aldwych. It used to be four lanes of traffic that cut off St. Mary le Strand Church, but now it's a space for people and plants. Once these changes are made in cities, no one ever wants to revert to the way things were. ♥️ London

City police officer walking up steps with red panelled Golden Lane estate building in the background.

City of London police are holding a bike and phone marking event on FANN STREET on FRIDAY 15TH AUGUST between 12:00-14:00.

Disappointed that TfL has abandoned its plans to replace the Wandsworth Gyratory with no alternative ideas. 2014 it was a “car-clogged one-way system hostile to pedestrians and cyclists” and nothing changed since. Is it too late to safe Wandsworth Town?
@willnorman.co.uk
@wandsworthls.bsky.social

Cars trying to get thru crowds of people in Soho

Pedestrianise the west end! 🙄
@westminster-Icc.bsky.social

The resurfaced C11 outside Bart's Hospital.

Was told that the West Smithfield section of C11 (where it meets C6) is opened permanently (with a mini-hint of "unless...").
@citylcc.bsky.social

Tweet with photo of officer bike marking and upturned bike

A tweet from City of London Police:

Do you cycle in the City? We're running a free bike marking session this week to help keep your bike safe.

We'll be at the junction of Moor Place and Moorgate between 0800 - 1000 on Wednesday 30 July 2025.

Cornhill has now reopened.
@citylcc.bsky.social

Me on Green Lanes

Campaigners! 🙌🏻 What’s a term for when you shout until you’re blue in the face about a stretch of road and nothing gets done- for YEARS? 🗓️

“Stuck Record Blues” maybe? 😢🎵🎤 Any others?

Because I’ve had serious Stuck Record Blues this week - and there’s a story behind it. 🧵1/18