Ealing Cycling Campaign
Newsletter January 2004

New homes to have cycle facilities

The developers of the old Taylor Woodrow site in Broadmead Road, Greenford are building what is claimed to be an environmentally friendly 'village' where cycling will be encouraged. All 700 homes on the site will have a safe place for keeping bikes, and the developers are building cycleways and bridges so the residents can cycle further afield. The estate will include links to the Grand Union Canal.

Ealing cycle campaign features in academic journal

Ealing Cycling Campaign is featured in an academic journal. Last November's Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science includes a paper by Simon Batterbury (University of Arizona and LSE) which reports on our cycle campaigning in the late 1990's. If you want to know about the joy and frustration of trying to improve facilities for cyclists, you can read it on the web. 'Environmental Activism and Social Networks: Campaigning for Bicycles and Alternative Transport in West London', can be found at http://www.u.arizona.edu/~batterbu/annals.htm

Events

All members are welcome at our meetings. We usually meet on the first Wednesday of the month.

The next meeting is at 7.20pm on Wednesday 4 Feb 2004.

If you haven't been before you are very welcome. We meet at the rear entrance of Perceval House (the modern building to the left of Ealing Town Hall on Ealing Broadway, W5) The meeting ends at 8.45 pm at the latest, and if you're lucky adjourns for beer, wine, cheesecake, etc. at "Cafe Grove" on The Grove, W5.