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Category Archives: Bad Gyrations KX Campaign
TfL & Camden public meeting to discuss KX roads next week
LB Camden has issued a draft agenda for the public meeting this Wednesday evening the 17 October, 6.00 pm to 8.30 pm at the Camden Centre – entrance on Bidborough Street, WC1H 9JE. The meeting will be chaired by Councillor Phil Jones, … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Gyrations KX Campaign, Kings Cross N1C, railwayslands, Road Safety in Kings Cross, Transport, Travel
Tagged Air quality, Camden Centre, Camden Council, Camden Cycling Campaign, Euston Road, Go Dutch, gyratory system, Isabel Dedring, London Cycling Campaign, Phil Jones, traffic accidents, Transport for London
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Did TfL weaken pro cycling recommendations for killer Kings Cross junction as long ago as 2007?
In 2006 TfL commissioned Colin Buchanan, traffic engineers to produce a cycling strategy report for Kings Cross. This report isn’t widely known locally and I am indebted to Kaya Burgess from The Times for drawing my attention to the final … Continue reading
“We may need it once a year!” The cynical keeping-open of a Kings Cross rat race track.
Over the years I had both successes and failures with TFL in personal correspondences. One amongst others remains unresolved. It is the issue of Swinton Place WC1X 9NF. Swinton Place connects Swinton Street and Acton Street, in the South of … Continue reading
TfL refuses to say why it didn’t act to make deadly junction comply with their own cycle design standards
Caroline Pidgeon AM (Lib Dem) Chair of the Transport Committee has been asking some probing questions of the Mayor and TfL about the deadly junctions in Kings Cross following work by this website when I went out with a surveyors tape … Continue reading
Kings Cross cycling safety campaign – Ken Livingstone interview and Caroline Pidgeon questions to Mayor
Our campaign on road safety in Kings Cross continues to attract cross party support and the themes we have helped articulate find wide resonance with Mayoral candidates. We try here to remain non-Partisan, although that isn’t always easy. I am … Continue reading
TfL says ‘threat of Corporate Manslaughter charges against TfL’…’unhelpful and inappropriate’
The BBC covered the Kings Cross road safety issues that we’ve been campaigning on. Our very own Sophie Talbot did a lap of the gyratory with a helmet cam. I used the excellent Whatdotheyknow website to make a freedom of … Continue reading
Bikes Alive! 23 January 6pm, will you be there?
Frustration at continued lack of action by Transport for London to ensure the safety of all road users across London resulted in a ‘go-slow’ protest on January 9th at King’s Cross. A second event is now planned by Bikes Alive … Continue reading
Posted in Bad Gyrations KX Campaign, Road Safety in Kings Cross
Tagged Acton Street, corporate manslaughter, Cycling, Euston Road, Goodsway, Gray's Inn Road, Gyratory, King's Cross Bridge, King's Cross Road, King's Cross station, Local groups, Local people, London Cycling Campaign, Midland Road, Pentonville Road, Road safety, Swinton Street, TfL, The Cally, Walking, Wharfdale Road, York Way
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Corsa crashes at entry to Swinton Street this morning
This report is written subjectively, but I assure any reader that these are fully true and accurate accounts. A small black car, that looked like a Vauxhall Corsa, sport tuned in its external appearance, has crashed at the entrance of … Continue reading
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