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Ealing Cycling News the LCC Newsletter for Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale and Southall June 2013 Ealing Cycling News The LCC newsletter for Acton, Ealing, Greenford, Hanwell, Northolt, Perivale and Southall June 2013 local leisure spot. Bring a picnic. Bike Week Approx return 4pm Bike Theft th rd Believe it or not, cycling theft in 15 - 23 June th Wed 19 June Ealing is on the decrease. This Come and join us for Bike Week Sunset Ride could be because the investment at one or more of our stalls at Leaving at 7pm from Ealing in more secure cycle stands is these events. If you have never Town Hall for the traditional ride proving its worth, or that dummy volunteered before, we would be to Richmond Hill for a drink at bikes are now being placed at the very keen for you to lend a hand: the Roebuck, and to see the sun Bike Hub outside Ealing it’s a really great way to feel set on nearly the longest day of Broadway station by the police to involved in the group. Be a the year. Bring lights! Meet catch thieves in the act. mechanic helping to fix bikes, or outside Ealing Town Hall. We are forging a very close an advocate to encourage others relationship with Ealing Police, to discover the cycling bug! Sun 23rd June and are heartened to hear their enthusiasm in pushing cycling Sat 15th June Ticket to Ride – Brent Lodge Park (Bunny Park) and theft much higher up the agenda. Dr Bike & Stall, Ealing Green They are happy to attend some of From 10am until 4pm join us on Gunnersbury Park our meetings. Thefts by ward, Ealing Green, on the triangle A family centred ride organised between November 2012 and between Bond Street and High by Ealing Council. Marshals will February 2013 are shown in the Street, where Doctor Bike will be guide people around an 11 mile table below. present to check over your bike loop of the borough. Starting If you don’t want to lose your and resolve any minor problems. points on the hour every hour hard-earned bike use a cable lock There will be people on hand to from 10am in the Bunny Park as well as a ‘D’ lock. You should give advice and guidance on all (next to the car park opposite St always register your bike on things cycling. (Ealing Green, Mary’s Church) and Gunnersbury www.immobilse.com W5 5DA) Park (next to the museum). Rides will be led by trained marshals Sat 15th June and refreshment breaks will be Acton Central 10 Hanwell Carnival provided along the route. Free Cleveland 5 Take part in the procession to bike checks at each starting point. Dormers Wells 2 We will have an information stall Ealing Broadway 26 ride to Elthorne Park to promote Ealing Common 6 all things cycling and ECC. The in both locations where you can East Acton 28 carnival actually started as a pick up cycling maps and get Elthorne 18 cycling parade way back in 1898 your cycling questions answered Greenford Broadway 3 with cyclists dressing up their from friendly cycling bods! Hanger Hill 4 Hobbayne 5 bikes. Dressing up your bike is Northfields 8 welcome, but not compulsory! If More Social Rides North Greenford 1 you have mobile music bring it Northolt Mandeville 2 along too. Meet: 9.45am Hanwell 23 June – not-so-speedy ride Northolt West End 3 Community Centre, Westcott around London’s prisons Norwood Green 7 Perivale 11 Crescent, W7 1PD 7 July – leisurely ride along South Acton 7 the River Crane Southall Broadway 3 Sun 16th June Southall Green 1 21 July – gentle ride to Southfield 23 Family Ride Osterley Park Walpole 10 Suitable ride for families with Ealing Borough 183 small children. Short ride to a More info at ealingcycling.org.uk/rides We could use the extra money to corresponding period there has Council News link the existing projects together been a 25% rise in the number of Ealing Cycling Campaign meet with some new ones (say, a link injuries sustained by pedestrians up with the council every few from Walpole Park to the and cyclists. months. In April, four of us went residential streets north of the along. At our last meeting, we Uxbridge Road and beyond). An Congratulations! were told that at long last a cycle imaginative plan would stand a hub with covered cycle parking is good chance, I think, how about Congratulations to Dorota and to be installed at North Acton you? Paul, our amazing social ride Tube station later this year. It coordinator, on the birth of won't be as expensive as the The council has committed to their new baby boy. Marcus Ealing Broadway lot, thank th using only HGV contractors was delivered on 17 May and goodness, but should improve whose drivers have undergone is officially the youngest things for cycle commuters. The cycle training to follow the member to join our growing council is attempting to impose a pledge of 'Safer Urban Driving'. family! 20mph limit across the borough So far, over 100 drivers have in many residential areas, except completed the training, which A word of thanks from The for the obvious main roads. involves taking drivers on a Editor to: three-and-a-half hour cycle ride Council Leader, Julian Bell – on nearby roads to help them who has now cycled over 5,000 understand the risks lorries can Annette Welland, Tom Hartwell miles since taking up cycling 18 pose to cyclists. We have written and David Eales who assisted me months ago -, is arranging to to the council thanking them for when I need it most in getting meet Andrew Gilligan, the this. In conjunction with this newsletter over to the Mayor’s Cycling Czar, to win Waitrose, West Ealing we will be printers in time! Thank you to him over in the bid to win some holding an “Exchanging Places” you all! Enjoy the read and happy of the Mayor’s “Little Holland” event so that cyclists can get an cycling! Ben Owen cycle infrastructure funding. He insight of the hidden dangers that and other councillors are lorries pose. Next Meeting planning to cycle to City Hall and Our meetings takes place on the first Wednesday of each would be delighted to have other After lengthy negotiations with month at 7.30pm ECC members join them on the London Underground, temporary at our regular venue, Café ride in. A date has yet to be cycle stands have – at last - been Grove, 65 The Grove, W5 confirmed, but as soon as we added outside Northfields station 5LL. know more details it will be on between Bramley and Devonshire our website and sent out to all on Roads whilst the ongoing th June: 5 June our mailing list by email. If you building works are taking place. rd July: 3 July are free on the day, please do join Once the final improvements to th in to back the council’s cause. August: 7 August the station forecourt are made Contact: later this year the station will [email protected] The Mayor's “Vision for Cycling” have double the number of cycle www.ealingcycling.org.uk earmarks a lot of money - £33 stands on the forecourt. million - for transforming town centres in outer London, and Other News Ealing is a prime candidate. The Well done to The Institute of redevelopment for Crossrail and Advanced Motorists, based in other developments gives us the Chiswick, for asking the UK opportunity to transform central government and car makers to Ealing for the better. The cycle make radical changes to the front parking near Ealing Broadway of cars, so that vulnerable road station is a start, there is space for users get the same five star more, and there are already quiet protection treatment as those cycle-friendly routes (like sitting in the vehicle. Since 2006, Windsor Road) radiating car occupant’s deaths and serious outwards into residential areas. injuries have fallen, but in the .
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