Havering Cyclists
@cyclehavering.bsky.social
Working for safer cycling in the London Borough of Havering
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For the London Cycling Festival, Havering cyclists are running a family friendly, ride from the Visitor Centre in Hornchurch Country Park to the Thames and back again (9 miles in total). Join us early to get a free bike check. More details and registration here: lcc.org.uk/events/lcf-h...
LCF Havering: Country cycle to the Thames - London Cycling Campaign
Help us celebrate the London Cycling Festival by joining Havering Cyclists on our family-friendly bike ride! Havering cyclists are running a family friendly, marshalled ride from the Visitor Centre in...
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Havering Cyclists will be running a Dr Bike event on Sunday the 30th August in Hornchurch Country Park opposite the Visitors Centre. Why not come along between 11am and 2pm and have your bike checked for free?
🚲 New study: cargo bike can compete with cars! In Berlin, users rate cargo bikes better than cars on price, stress, flexibility & environmental impact; cars! 80% cite environmental reasons for ditching a car.📖 Study buff.ly/JV8RRog
It's good to see Birmingham City Council ramping up its adoption of 20mph as the urban/village norm for its roads.
Birmingham 20mph speed limit would be 'life saving'
The West Midlands road safety commissioner backs city council plans for B and C roads.
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If you build it they will come Rotterdam, NL The Netherlands is not known for his amazing weather. Yet it’s a biker’s paradise. This is because of infrastructure decisions made over the last 50 years, and a culture of biking that followed. It’s as simple as that.
Great progress but sadly London's safe cycle network stops well short of Sunny Havering. The London Mayor is funding this but the rollout in each borough is controlled locally so we need to keep pushing our local councils for progress. Help us. Join us. www.haveringcyclists.org/join-us/
While Europe goes through yet another heatwave, cities are developing plans to fight the heat, yet cycling is often not part of it. What could London's Heat Ready plan look like if it included cycling? Read more: urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/a-key-poli...
Zero km in #Havering, and the A12 and A127 which the Mayor controls are poorly served and hard to cross for people walking, wheeling and cycling. Safe streets in #London is a postcode lottery.
Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan@london.gov.uk · last mo.Spot the difference. We didn't 5x the Cycleways network in London overnight. It took vision, hard work, & the conviction to invest in green infrastructure - often in the face of vocal opposition. In 2016, we had 90km of Cycleways. Now we're at 450km. That's progress. And we're not stopping there.
Infrastructure creates demand. People don't cycle because a city is naturally "a bike city." They cycle when routes are safe, continuous, connected. Major credit to the Mayor @london.gov.uk, Transport for London, local councils, advocacy who continue to push this vision. Bravo! 👏
We have our next Havering Cyclists meeting on Saturday 15th August. The meeting will be held in the cafe in the visitor’s centre in Hornchurch Country park. If you would like to come along, please get in touch for more details.
There is a new DfT Crash Map available where you can filter by many variables. See the last 5 years crashes and casualties mapped with detail on individual crashes at dft.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboa...
Havering Cyclists will be running a Dr Bike event on Sunday the 2nd August in Hornchurch Country Park opposite the Visitors Centre. Why not come along between 11am and 2pm and have your bike checked for free?
It seems that 84% of Britons can't tell whether an e-bike is legal or not and this inevitably leads to problems like the West Midlands police destroying a man's (legal) Tern e-bike. There is now an initiative called E-Bike Positive which is a 'trust mark for e-bikes. ebikepositive.co.uk
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Lovely smooth cycle lanes which are protected from the sun and the rain by a solar paneled roof. You've got to have a dream, eh?
Not in Havering but not a million miles away either, we were asked to publicise this charity bike ride taking place on Sunday 6 September 2026. Full details and registration are here: www.nice-work.org.uk/e/greater-ha...
@carolinerussell.bsky.social speaking before we head off: women's safety is about more than not being crushed by a lorry, it's about not being catcalled, it's about feeling safe
London's main north-south cycleway #C6 #CS6 in New Bridge Street north of Blackfriars Bridge 📷 @mrdannyw.bsky.social (welcome back) bsky.app/profile/mrda...
Rush hour. London
Users of these Cyclehoop parking lockers need to be aware that the booking app is planned to be changing this week to Hooplr and access to the lockers will be via their new website at hooplr.com
Tues 7th, 1230pm, London's Healthy Streets Scorecard 2026 online launch: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/2026-londo... Wed 8th, 930am in central LDN, free for London council officers, Scorecard / Project Centre's "Navigating the Political Landscape" post local elections: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/navigating...
2026 London Healthy Streets Scorecard launch event
Join us for this free event to find out about and celebrate action happening all around London.
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🚲📣 With the Women's Freedom Ride this Sunday, here's Rachael from Islington talking about what the campaign means to her, and why she'll be riding... 🤳 Register here and we'll see you on Sunday: lcc.org.uk/events/lcc-w...
Cycle Sundays is back 🤩 Every Sunday in summer, we’re encouraging Londoners to get on their bikes. Get a free Santander Cycles Day Pass every Sunday in July 2026: tfl.gov.uk/modes/cyclin...
Councillors - please join us and @globalactionplan.bsky.social at Friday's lunchtime webinar to learn about #AirPollution and how you can collaborate with your communities to deliver clean air. Friday 3rd, 12:30pm for a speedy 45 minutes! Sign up here 👇.
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Join Global Action Plan and Mums for Lungs at a 45 minute webinar on Friday 3rd July to learn more about what it means to be a local clean air champion! This webinar will provide an opportunity for c...
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We are delighted to support the fabulous, 'Everyday Cyclist' exhibition, on the 9th of July, 4-6pm, in Brockwell Park, offering a variety of cycles for people to ride & a cycle taxi service from outside the lido next to the carpark (side-by-side and wheelchair carrying platform trike).
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
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You don't have to pave over paradise to build a bike path. Bicycles can coexist with nature in a way that cars simply never will.
The further a journey is, the more barriers Disabled people will usually face to completing it. Moving about in our own homes is usually much easier than making a longer trip around our own communities. Her are some of the barriers many Disabled people experience. What barriers do you face?
