Category Archives: Road Safety in Kings Cross

Transport for London responds to KX road safety concerns by making it worse

Bikes Alive, the recently-formed network of cyclists who are taking non-violent direct action, returns to the lethal road junction outside Kings Cross station at 6.30pm on Monday evening, 20 February … as Transport for London (TfL) starts work to change … Continue reading

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Join the party on Monday!

The regular ‘go-slow’ events organised by Bikes Alive in King’s Cross have a light hearted party atmosphere. Join in this Monday at 6.30pm for one hour to add your voice to the call for safe roads in KX. Whether you … Continue reading

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London Olympics-funded cycle and pedestrian improvements large new FOI release #cyclesafe

The Olympic Delivery authority have released a treasure trove of documents about the improvement to pedestrian and cycle schemes.  The 60-odd documents can be found online here and were released in response to my FOI request using What Do They … Continue reading

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TfL panicked into review of junctions that it’s mismanaged for a decade #cyclesafe

TfL has launched a panicky review of major junctions across London in response to overwhelming pressure from cyclists, local politicians and media outlets.  As part of this review, TfL has admitted that some junctions are ‘challenging’ for cyclists.  TfL says: … Continue reading

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‘It grieves me sometimes to see the way that TfL is blamed’ Chair of TfL, Boris Johnson

As part of our public service commitment  I have dug out the debate in the Greater London Assembly on cycling safety on  November 9th 2011 so that we can see what politicians of all parties said before a major media … Continue reading

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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

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The Times #cyclesafe campaign welcome but for real impact needs to hit the Courts

It’s great to see cycle safety on the front page of a national newspaper.  The Times is thundering away about the need for urban cycle safety following the serious injury of one of its young reporters who remains in a … Continue reading

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The Londonist reports a Boris bike under an HGV

Posted on The Londonist yesterday: Boris Bike Accident In Clerkenwell BY DEAN · FEBRUARY 1, 2012 AT 10:05 AM · 5 COMMENTS · A Boris bike was involved in an accident with a HGV on Clerkenwell Road this morning. Reports on Twitter suggest that the cyclist has … Continue reading

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