Ealing Cycling Campaign
Newsletter November 2004
Ealing Council win Cycling 'Oscar'
A campaign by Ealing
Council to 'market cycling' in the borough has clinched one of this year's
London Cycling Awards. Ealing's cycling officer, Dr. Robert Davis, picked
up the Special Commendation on 13th October at a ceremony at King's College,
London. The award is an endorsement of Ealing's multi-pronged approach
to getting bums on saddles. This includes free cycle training, installing
bike parking in streets and schools, and 'bike buddy' schemes to help
commuters on their journeys.
As part of the London Cycle Network+, the council are planning a new North-South cycle route. It will run from Hanger Lane Gyratory System, past Ealing Broadway Station and on to just west of Gunnersbury Park. It will be the first LCN+ route in the Borough, and as such will be developed under a new guideline known as CRISP (Cycle Route Implementation Stakeholder Plan). In short, this means we have been invited to walk the route with the engineers and other interested parties, which gives us a chance to make suggestions at an early stage in the planning process. This is potentially the most exciting opportunity for Ealing Cyclists since ECC's formed nearly 10 years ago. For all that time our number one priority has been to open up Ealing Broadway and Haven Green to two-way cycle traffic. If this route goes ahead as drawn on the provisional plan we've received, it will enable cyclists to cycle north up to Ealing Broadway station, and from there on to North East Ealing.
Ealing Council are organising a cycling maintenance course in the borough. It will be run by Cycle Training, and will take place on a Saturday in January. If you are interested, contact Ian Pearson at Cycle Training at 0800 093 6454.
a) Drayton Bridge estate has new cycle lockers and residents benefited
from on-road training over the Summer.
b) TfL have given Ealing a further £10k to spend on cycle training
before April 2005.
c) New cycle parking at Thames Valley University about to be installed.
More due soon at St Benedicts Primary & High School, Lady Margaret
and Grange Primaries.
d) Good Going Week in September saw Dr Bikes in Southall & Acton.
This programme to continue with on-road confidence training and bike buddying.
e) Lockers due to be installed on Windmill Park estate.
f ) Steyne Road / Uxbridge Road junction in Acton to be improved. Nearby
junction with Gunnersbury Lane may take longer.
g) Hanger Lane / Uxbridge Road junction East/Northbound slip road treatment.
(To prevent vehicles joining Uxbridge Road at high speed) - confident
this will be ratified in November.
h) Programme of one-way treatments/exemptions and ASLs (Advanced Stop
Lanes) has been sent to Mouchel-Parkman (the contractors who will carry
out the work).
i) Crude access to canal at Trumpers Way has been provided.
j) Greenford Road to High Lane off-road route has gone through basic design
though unlikely to be lit at night.
k) Minor works such as Advisory Cycle Lane extensions at junctions and
miscellaneous signing proceeding on Uxbridge Road in Southall.
l) Various works in Park Royal, mainly ASLs & signing.
m) Possibility of resurfacing shared use track up Horsenden Hill. £20k
available from TfL if done before April 105 - but hill is slipping!
n) 100 more stands to go in across the borough.
o) Canal towpath 100 metres west of Old Oak Lane bridge modified successfully.
All members are welcome at our meetings. We usually meet on the first Wednesday of the month.
The
next meetings are at 7.30 pm on Wednesday 3rd November and Wednesday 1st
December. Our
new venue is downstairs at "Cafe Grove" on The Grove, W5.
If
you haven't been before you are very welcome.
P.S. The cafe does very good cheesecake and Polish beer.
