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I'm entirely quoting Donnachadh McCarthy on Southwark Plans (not) for protected segregated cycling Spineless, cashless, protectionless..... Southwark Council has produced a new cycling "strategy" for "CONsultation". I confess to almost never having read such a vacuous gooey pile of nothingness in years!! 8-( Their main innovation is to propose slashing bike routes through parks, creating unnecessary friction, instead of actually installing segregated cycle lanes on the roads. They have drawn a marker through the centre of the borough and called it the southwark spine - it is a cycle "route" not a protected lane. There is no map of all the LCN network and no mention of all the routes that have removed with latest Peckham & Nunhead Plan. There is no proposal for protected left hand turns and a tiny pot of money. ( the money for the entire borough (they do not say how many years the budget is for) which is about a fifth of what they are spending at the moment on tarting up Camberwell Green) and enough to pay for one busy junction to be done properly... At this rate it will be the year 2,500 before Southwark kids can get the right to cycle as safely as Dutch kids. grrrrr The battle goes on - http://moderngov.southwark.gov.uk/documents/s49335/Appendix%201%20Cycling%20strategy.pdf

Huge demonstration on safe shared streets. Please come. Please bring the whole family. We are actively being denied safe streets and I just cannot see who benefits from the danger. Cars and vans are not being "delayed" by cyclists. There would be mayhem, grid lock and air you'd have to cut and squeeze to breathe. November 15th 12 noon Bedford Square Oxford Street will close for us 2pm Marble Arch http://stopthekilling.org.uk

I don't find the abuse of precious public space at all amusing At least ?120 for every swing chewed and I saw 2 swings with chunks out: http://www.hags-smp.co.uk/products-category/5A1E4F07-2F46-DF11-860E-0050569301EA/ 100 children a year with blindness from dog mess: http://www.netdoctor.co.uk/ate/childrenshealth/200336.html

I posted this on another thread and it fits here as well [content.met.police.uk] The police do take these crimes seriously and with cut backs their efficiency is increased if we all help There are online sites where crime data is loaded so that you can see it and patterns can be monitored. There are successes in taking criminals off the streets but there's always the next person who thinks crime pays more than an education and a job. Like local foxes, one criminal goes but another takes their place Set up Neighbourhood Watch groups and you'll get everything delivered via e-mail. To have a group registered with a NHW police contact person: MetPhone 26317 | Telephone 020 7232 6317 | Email katy.butterton@met.police.uk Address Camberwell Police Station (MC) 22A Camberwell Church Street SE58QU The operative word is NEIGHBOURhood not watch. Never leave doors or windows unlatched when you walk away. When you can afford to replace single with double pane and s set of TWO locks across the top. Dead bolt doors. Bicycles LOCKED even in your backyard or hall

http://content.met.police.uk/Site/saferneighbourhoods The police do take this seriously There are online sites where the data is loaded so that you can see it and patterns can be monitored. There are successes but there's always the next person who thinks crime pays more than an education and a job. Like local foxes, one goes and another takes its place Set up Neighbourhood watch groups and you'll get everything delivered via e-mail. To have a group registered with a NHW contact person: MetPhone 26317 | Telephone 020 7232 6317 | Email katy.butterton@met.police.uk Address Camberwell Police Station (MC) 22A Camberwell Church Street SE58QU The operative word is NEIGHBOUR not watch. Just talk to your neighbours, it's a normal thing to do

Install windows that open. It is insane that there are no windows that open. The arrogance of the Fusion senior staff on this and every issue that they get entirely wrong is breath taking.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/bkbos/ Beekeepers Buying or Selling.. it's a Facebook Group

I love Wilson's Old bikes to the police for rehab in schools?

Bumble bees are everywhere this year! That has to be good

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Accepting PokerTime's point for the moment and answering James, I'd propose the only 2 intersections that meet what seem to be space and shape criteria: East Dulwich Road and Peckham Rye The South Circular and Lordship Lane The strict confines of East Dulwich are "blessed" with no major intersection ? !

Watch this video on protected intersections for bicyclists. Yes, we can. All the wasted money and lives. We could have done it a long while back. Demand safe roads. http://www.protectedintersection.com

This just in! Swarm warm, fed and reviving. Future updates will cover: Does it have a Queen? Where will it find a permanent home? Watch this space and in the meantime, a great day out for any age is Stave Hill Ecological Park https://plus.google.com/103956076801489229082/about?gl=uk&hl=en which is one possible home for these lucky bees. It might end up at Horniman, they've got a visible bee hive and an insect discovery room for little people. Using this thread as a platform for bees and such life: Please please please watch out in your gardens this summer for the evil ASIAN HORNET. If you see this horrible beastie TELL DEFRA, post here by all means but tell the authorities immediately! Asian Hornets destroy honey bees! https://secure.fera.defra.gov.uk/beebase/index.cfm?pageid=208

collected very very wet small "cast" swarm just before we lost the light. Hope they make it! They're being nursed back to bee health by the best (not me)

where exactly are these bees? and I'll ask someone to get them

Stop Killing Cyclists next Direct Action Protest is on Wed April 2nd, 1pm-2pm. It will be outside Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London SW1E. Its purpose will be to highlight the criminally lethal failure by London's 32 Boroughs to invest in cycling and pedestrian safety over the last 4 years, since the last borough elections. The next Borough elections are on 22nd May. The London Boroughs control 95% London's roads, the rest are controlled by TfL and the London Mayor Boris Johnson. We will be releasing that morning the truly shocking results of the research carried out by Will Nickell on Stop Killing Cyclists' behalf, into how many meters of segregated cycle lanes that have they installed (or have not ) since the last elections and a range of other questions including what proportion of their streets are 20 mph. He has pursued all 32 Boroughs with Freedom of Information requests to get the shocking results, which will be released that morning. Our aim is to create a central banner portraying the pyramid of death caused by traffic violence in London's Boroughs, including cyclists, pedestrians and lung and hearrt diseases caused by transport pollution. This will be placed in the middle of a long banner with a mark for each cyclist death since the last elections. Please share this announcement. The FB event page is here [www.facebook.com]

a car going 20mph should have been able to stop. I also hope she recovers and I hope the speed the car was going is examined

Yes take a lawyer through the London Cycling Campaign Call this week! If you were in a crash or your bike was stolen, would you be adequately protected? Our members have the peace of mind that comes from knowing they have third-party insurance, a priority legal helpline from a cycle-specialist solicitor, plus great deals on bike theft insurance. If you were involved in a crash with a pedestrian, another cyclist or a motor vehicle, would you be covered for a damages claim against you? Our members have the peace of mind that comes from being covered for all claims worldwide (excluding USA and Canada) up to ?5 million while they?re on their bike. To make a claim, contact Butterworth Spengler Insurance on 0151 494 4400. We hope you never need us, but our cycle-friendly solicitors are ready to give you advice if you do. They're experts in personal accident claims, but will also give members the benefit of their years of cycling legal experience on any other legal problems you throw at them. Contact our cycle-friendly expert solicitors at Levenes on 020 8826 1329

http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/83789/1/WHO_NMH_VIP_13.01_eng.pdf?ua=1 World Health Organisation Data

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152190289808959&set=gm.620159258052944&type=1 "If we can pack Blackfriars Road, we can pack Oxford Street" - D. McCarthy Please watch our one minute launch video on You Tube and share it: http://goo.gl/ZCFxWK A peaceful, dignified funeral procession and memorial to symbolically mark all the unknown victims who have lost or had their lives destroyed on Britain's roads, whether through traffic violence, death from air-pollution, obesity related deaths through fear of cycling, or the millions dying worldwide as a result of climate change. It will also be a call to end the culture of acceptance which still surrounds traffic violence, and unite road users of all kinds from across the country to build a new, human-friendly, road and public space culture in Britain. This event will appeal to people's hearts to change Britain's roads for the better. OUR TEN DEMANDS. The following were agreed at the Stop The Killing members meeting: 1. Stop the Killing of Children - set up national multi-billion pound programme to convert residential communities across Britain into living-street Home Zones to abolish dangerous rat-runs. 2. Stop the Killing of Pedestrians - establish a national programme to fund pedestrianisation of our city and town centres, including the nation?s high-street ? Oxford Street. 3. Stop the Killing of Pensioners from excessive speed - introduce and enforce speed limit of 20 mph on all urban roads, 40 mph on rural roads/lanes and 60 mph on all other trunk roads. 4. Stop the Killing of Cyclists - invest ?15 billion in a National Segregated Cycle Network over the next 5 years. 5. Stop the Killing by HGVs - ban trucks with blind spots by making safety equipment mandatory and strictly enforce current truck-safety regulations to reduce levels of illegally dangerous trucks down from estimated 30% to less than 1%. 6. Stop the Killing without liability ? introduce a presumed civil liability law on behalf of vehicular traffic when they kill or seriously injure vulnerable road-users, where there is no evidence blaming the victim. 7. Stop the Killing from Lung, Heart and other Diseases caused by vehicular pollutants - make it mandatory for particulate filters that meet latest EU emission standards to be fitted to all existing buses, lorries and taxis. 8. Stop the Killing at Junctions - introduce pedestrian crossing times long enough for elderly disabled to cross. Legalise filtered junction crossings by cyclists with strict legal priority for pedestrians and carry out urgent programme of physically protected left-hand turns for cyclists. 9. Stop the Killing from CO2 emissions from impacts of the climate crisis - all transport fuels to be from environmentally-sustainable renewable sources within 10 years. 10. Focus on Life! Transport governance must make safety and quality of life the top priority. Reform all council transport departments, the Department of Transport and Transport for London into Cycling, Walking and Transport Departments with formal pedestrian and cyclist representation. Donnachadh McCarthy Steve Routley Co-founders Stop Killing Cyclists & Stop The Killing https://www.facebook.com/groups/stopkillingcyclists/ www.stopkillingcyclists.org www.stopthekilling.org.uk

Annabel join the Facebook group Stopkillingcyclists. There are other family members who live with the consequences of badly built/ designed and maintained roads. And drivers who don't have or take the responsibility for more vulnerable roads users. I think you'll get a big kick out of the "page". There are people from all walks of life some with extraordinary abilities and talents and humour and fun. You might want to take a taxi both ways to the November event which will be national in scope. If you contact Donnachadh through the Facebook page tell him and everyone who you are and I think you'll both have a special ringside spot reserved and maybe a walk-on part if you want one.

Stop Killing Cyclists next Direct Action Protest is on Wed April 2nd, 1pm-2pm. It will be outside Westminster City Hall, 64 Victoria Street, London SW1E. Its purpose will be to highlight the criminally lethal failure by London's 32 Boroughs to invest in cycling and pedestrian safety over the last 4 years, since the last borough elections. The next Borough elections are on 22nd May. The London Boroughs control 95% London's roads, the rest are controlled by TfL and the London Mayor Boris Johnson. We will be releasing that morning the truly shocking results of the research carried out by Will Nickell on Stop Killing Cyclists' behalf, into how many meters of segregated cycle lanes that have they installed (or have not ) since the last elections and a range of other questions including what proportion of their streets are 20 mph. He has pursued all 32 Boroughs with Freedom of Information requests to get the shocking results, which will be released that morning. Our aim is to create a central banner portraying the pyramid of death caused by traffic violence in London's Boroughs, including cyclists, pedestrians and lung and hearrt diseases caused by transport pollution. This will be placed in the middle of a long banner with a mark for each cyclist death since the last elections. Please share this announcement. The FB event page is here https://www.facebook.com/events/296107700543184/?fref=ts Please let us know if you can come. We hope this will help complement the LCC local elections campaign. Many thanks Donnachadh

You'll love it. Watch this youtube video

A Students' Council of 6th Formers from schools along the P13 route have been asking for more buses for over a year. The lack of buses on this route affects hundreds of children at local schools

very very topical!