By john ackers, on February 20th, 2012 
Danish city planner – Jan Gehl
Eminent Danish city planner Jan Gehl lectured at RIBA at the end of 2011 about creating People Friendly Cities. He’s thoughtful, engaging, funny and passionate and the large, mainly young RIBA audience loved him. Cycling isn’t just good for cyclists, it’s good for cities.
Video part 1 People friendly cities are sustainable cities. People like seeing other people. We want lively and attractive cities. Safety and security; we hate deserted places. A good public realm and a good public transport system are brothers. 50 happy years of cheap petroleum are over. 1/3 of Americans will die of obesity. Not everybody can get to the escalator that leads to the fitness centre. The car invasion in the 1960s. Traffic engineers obsessed with finding capacity for cars, as if this was the only thing that mattered.
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By john ackers, on February 18th, 2012 
In the run up to the London elections, please:
Sign the Go Dutch Petition on the LCC website. Pledge support for The Times’s Cities Fit for Cycling campaign on the Times website. Islington North MP, Jeremy Corbyn has already done so and written to some of his constituents. Has anyone heard from Emily Thornberry M.P.? Gather for a Cycle Safe Ride to Parliament at the bottom of Duke of York steps at 6.15PM for a 6.30PM departure on Wednesday 22nd February and lobby our MPs. On March 1st, 6PM turn up at Archway for the demo to get the gyratory removed. Want cycling to be taken seriously at the elections join LondonersOnBikes.
By icag, on February 10th, 2012 
Thursday 1 March 6-7pm – Let’s get rid of the Archway gyratory. Join cyclists and pedestrians to call for its removal. …more →
By Keith Macfarlane, on January 22nd, 2012 
but TfL have got signals engineers trying to sort out the grid locking on the junction …more →
By Keith Macfarlane, on November 30th, 2011 
ICAG is working with pedestrians groups and local residents to try to resolve antisocial behaviour on the canal towpath. …more →
By Keith Macfarlane, on November 30th, 2011
London Cycling Campaign held their AGM on Wednesday November 16. It was a well presented and well organised meeting with over 200 members attending. Thanks to Andrew Cornwell for providing this account.
1. The proposed name change to ‘London Cyclists’ was withdrawn by the Board after something of a mess regarding postal votes: it appears that postal votes for motions aren’t actually allowed under the company articles (although they are allowed for elections to the Board, approval of accounts etc). An apology has been issued. The motion from Hackney LCC to defer consideration of any name change until after the 2012 Mayoral elections was passed.
So it will be London Cycling Campaign for another year at least it seems.
2. The ‘Go Dutch’ campaign theme for the Mayoral elections was overwhelmingly agreed. There was quite a lot of discussion in the room …more →
By icag, on November 29th, 2011 
Dangers still exist for pedestrians and cyclists wishing to cross Holloway Road; by the end of the month, the present road works at Madras Place and Fieldway Crescent will be, we hope, an unalloyed success story for local campaigners working with Islington council officers and Transport for London (TfL). …more →
By john ackers, on November 27th, 2011 
Ward councillors have been invited to request that the speed limit be changed to 20MPH on their local principal roads. We hope they accept quickly. …more →
By john ackers, on November 20th, 2011
On Islington’s second most popular cycle route, cyclists pass an echelon parking bay on Drayton Park road outside shops which include a cafe and a plumbing supplies shop, opposite the large white Arsenal sign and Drayton Park railway station. Google Maps streetview.
Drivers routinely double park outside the shops. In addition, the echelon parking spaces are too short for the commercial vehicles that regularly use them. The back ends of long cars and the vans often overhang some or all of the cycle lane. There is, however dead space on the other side of the road.
The problem was first documented officially in the TfL funded CRISP study of the route in 2005, and ignored. ICAG has raised the issue many times with officers but nothing has happened. Most recently, local residents have emailed ICAG and pointed out the danger to cyclists.
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By icag, on November 7th, 2011 
Islington Council’s cycling targets are dwarfed by Camden and Hackney. …more →
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