Enjoy Waltham Forest Walking and Cycling Account 2017/18
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ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST WALKING AND CYCLING ACCOUNT 2017/18 www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST WALKING AND CYCLING ACCOUNT 17/18 2 www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk Contents FOREWORD 3 A NETWORK OF CYCLING ROUTES 4 ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST’S NETWORK 5 REVIEWING WALTHAM FOREST 8 WALKING IN WALTHAM FOREST 12 CYCLING IN WALTHAM FOREST 13 CYCLING BY NUMBERS 14 INVOLVING THE COMMUNITY 16 GREAT PLACES 17 MAKING CYCLE PARKING EASY 18 AS EASY AS RIDING A BIKE 20 CYCLING IN THE COMMUNITY 22 COMMUNITY GROUPS 24 WORKING WITH BUSINESSES 25 WORKING WITH SCHOOLS 26 SAFER STREETS 28 AWARDS AND RECOGNITION 30 WHAT’S NEXT? 31 ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST WALKING AND CYCLING ACCOUNT 17/18 3 www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST WALKING AND CYCLING ACCOUNT 2017/18 Foreword from Cllr walking more to local stores or getting out on a Clyde Loakes, Deputy cycle for the first time in a long time. Many residents are also being emboldened to host street parties Leader and Cabinet to celebrate event such as birthdays, The Royal Member for the Wedding and World Car Free Day. Environment This is our second Walking and Cycling Account November 2018 which reviews our progress so far. It brings the Enjoy What a difference a year makes. Waltham Forest story up to date and includes some We are coming towards the end insight into how it is impacting the way people travel. of delivering the Enjoy Waltham Forest programme. As the Enjoy Waltham Forest programme comes to It’s been five years since we secured the £27million an end, we will continue to bid for further funding to from Transport for London (TfL) to turn Waltham deliver our 2020 Vision for walking and cycling. We Forest into a Mini-Holland borough and I believe that have been successful in securing funding through the we have succeeded in turning our bid into reality. TfL Liveable Neighbourhoods initiative for the Coppermill Area and work has already commenced We are continuing to deliver the Enjoy Waltham Forest on this project. We are also currently developing a programme through improvements to our walking, joint bid with Newham Council to improve walking and cycling and public realm infrastructure, and in the last cycling in the Cann Hall area of Leytonstone. three years we have built more than 22 kilometres of segregated and semi-segregated cycle tracks on our Furthermore, it was encouraging to see that main routes across the borough. We have installed independent studies published this year show that 250 residential bikehangars, over 400 secure cycle infrastructure improvements are helping our residents parking spaces at our stations, and we have trained to be more physically active in cleaner air. It is more than 10,000 adults and children to ride a cycle. estimated that these improvements are giving our residents at least an extra six weeks of life expectancy. We have made lots of changes to the streets in our borough and introduced many initiatives aimed at While we are not quite at the Netherlands’ standards helping more people make use of the new infrastructure yet, the culture of cycling is clearly well established in on their doorsteps, connecting them to places that the borough and it would be hard to travel around were previously not accessible on foot or by cycle. without seeing a cluster of people on cycles during There are also new destinations for our residents and your journey. The same cannot be said of any other visitors to explore like Walthamstow Wetlands, and as outer London borough – that in itself shows we have the first London Borough of Culture in 2019 there will achieved what we set out to achieve when we started be even more reasons for people to come to Waltham on this journey. With the proven health benefits, it Forest and explore what we have to offer. would be remiss of us to stop now, just because the original pot of funding has almost been spent. The changes, aimed at encouraging more people to walk and cycle, have also helped residents reclaim I look forward to seeing what the next year will bring the streets they live on and has led to some really with the completion of the Whipps Cross and encouraging results. Lots of people are taking Walthamstow Gyratory schemes which will further ownership of new planted areas in modal filters, enhance our walking and cycling network. ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST WALKING AND CYCLING ACCOUNT 17/18 4 www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk A NETWORK OF CYCLING ROUTES MAP KEY CHESHUNT, BROXBOURNE Chingford and Highams Park to Crooked D A O R Billet Quiet Route E EPPING FOREST N O T S D Crooked Billet to Blackhorse Road R A W D Station Cycle Route E A S O R Y CHINGFORD R Bloomsbury to Walthamstow Quietway 2 U B PLAIN Forest Road to Wood Street Cycle Route NGERS ROAD K RA IN G S Lea Bridge Road Cycle Route H EA ROAD D H N D ILL O A CHINGFORD TI O R TA STATION S D Y R Blackhorse Road to Leyton Cycle Route A O RIDGEWAY F W S E E G D Y ID A R PARK O E A R R B W E A I Leytonstone to Queen Elizabeth Olympic H M R T A O H T IT EHALL ROA E WH D T L R D Park Cycle Route P A A W E V O O R R K D L A R G L O L I Leyton to Lea Bridge E A R L H P T ENFIELD T O A Y N N C A O U H H CHINGFORD D T I O T S A R N M E Cycle Hub F K A H D M R R TOWN R NO D A O A F L O H G Hospital R N CENTRE I E H V C O R H AT C E G H LAN National Rail Station D A NEW RO HA L L L A NE C London Underground H WOODFORD D I A N G O R F D O O R Station O D W L A S N K D E R A E A O U London Overground L R N E L V L A A E H H Station S T C K H D R A I A O N L H IGHAMS PARK R G Borough Boundary K A F R O A 4 P TOWN CENTRE 0 R S L 6 L O D D N R HIGHAMS PARK A O M SE L E R W O U YN AVEN STAT ION T O R H U R C E D I N A R T O S C T E R U E U R D L N H A E N C D V E R A N E S I L ES A W H PR EM C A 406 NORTH CIR H C BILLET ROAD U I L N AR G F O R E F N U D A L L B R E O O S REDBRIDGE U A R R O LLOYD D N H D E A K R O C O PARK R A A L r D W B E N D R O F D W WALTHAMSTOW O D O OA O R O W WETLANDS T D S TOTTENHAM E S OR HOE STREET AND T F R WOOD STREET E E STATION H T B S E WOOD STREET D L O A H C BLACKHORSE E K E W H R O S AREA N A R TREET WALTHAMSTOW H BLACKHORSE ROAD R S VILLAGE A D E CENTRAL STATION STATION VE L R RO L R OA N G D IO D O S A S IS E RO TREET A N M ELBOR D S WHIPPS WALTHAMSTOW CROSS ST JAMES WALTHAMSTOW EPPING ANE M QUEEN’S ROAD VILLAGE L STREET STATION W LL A H FOREST I STATION IP M R R H PS E C E S K R P S O COPPERMILL H S P E S X O O R C R O O A A AREA U D D MARKHOUSE (LIVEABLE NEIGHBOURHOOD S ST JAMES SCHEME) E ROAD VILLAGE PARK AD O R LT U A SNARESBROOK, H LEYTONSTONE N D A I A A I H O G R R G M TOWN CENTRE GE H LEYTON A D A WANSTEAD L I L R N R MIDLAND ROAD B CH LEYTON O W O A A R Y E A STATION L URCH ROAD QUIETWAY 2 R D TOWN O A L LEA BRIDGE D E CENTRE Y LEYTONSTONE STATION T D STATION O A N O LEYTON R N F E JUBILEE R A E LEYTONSTONE N R C G PARK IS HIGH ROAD E R V O O STATION O R R A G I D E O CA N L THA T I 2 LL V RO W E A1 A A R D Y R HACKNEY, O A LEYTON HARRO D W ROAD STATION AD CENTRAL RO LT ROA D ALL LEYTONSTONE HIGH ROADH O N H N A K C LONDON C U R ROAD FIELD WN CRO QUEEN ELIZABETH OLYMPIC PARK, STRATFORD, CYCLE SUPERHIGHWAY 2 ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST WALKING AND CYCLING ACCOUNT 17/18 5 www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST’S NETWORK The Enjoy Waltham Forest programme includes Leyton Town Centre includes the shopping district of a network of infrastructure improvements on the Francis Road, which following the introduction of a borough’s roads.