Walking and Cycling Account 2019
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Enjoy Waltham Forest Walking and Cycling Account 2019 WALK CYCLE www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk ENJOY Contents Foreword 3 A Network of Walking and Cycling Routes 4 Enjoy Waltham Forest’s Schemes 5 Flagship Projects 9 Liveable Neighbourhoods 11 Creating Places 12 Encouraging Sustainable Travel 13 Walking and Cycling by Numbers 15 Making Cycle Parking Easier 16 Cycling in Tandem 18 Walking and Cycling in the Community 20 Community Walking and Cycling Fund 22 World Car Free Day and Playstreets 24 School Streets 25 Walking and Cycling in Schools 26 Safer Streets 28 Awards and Recognition 30 What’s Next? Working Towards Vision 2025 31 2 ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST WALKING AND CYCLING ACCOUNT 2019 www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk and explore the area where they live. This has helped residents reclaim their streets through taking ownership of new planted areas in modal filters, hosting street parties and playstreets, and community groups utilising new spaces and cycle facilities. This year we also celebrated being the first Borough of Culture which saw more people visit the borough and explore what we have to offer. We also ran our first World Car Free Day event ‘Walk-in-Stow’ which saw us close Hoe Street, a main road in Walthamstow, to vehicles and host a large street party attracting over 10,000 people as well as supporting the closure of over 5.5km of residential roads across the borough through street parties. Foreword from Cllr Clyde Loakes, We officially launched our Lea Bridge Road scheme in Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member October 2019 which has seen the road modernised to for the Environment, December 2019 create a thriving high street and place for community What another successful year for the Enjoy Waltham interaction, increasing footfall and business Forest programme! opportunities. The road now has a total of eight kilometres of segregated track along the length of the The last year has been the concluding year of our road, side roads have been transformed into new Enjoy Waltham Forest programme and we have blended crossings, bus stops have been improved, continued to succeed in turning our bid into reality. new pocket parks have been introduced and over 190 The landscape of Waltham Forest has been radically new trees have been planted - a scheme like no other transformed during the delivery of the programme, in London! with safer walking and cycling infrastructure and neighbourhoods that have created more accessible After more than 18 months of construction work at routes and improved priority for those of all ages and Whipps Cross roundabout we have finally removed all abilities travelling across the borough by those modes. traces of the old, impractical layout with no walking and cycling infrastructure and poor public transport This is our third annual Walking and Cycling Account facilities and replaced it with an innovative new which reviews our progress so far. It brings the Enjoy T-Junction which has future-proofed it as a modern Waltham Forest story up to date and includes some bus interchange. This has created a calmer, safer and insight into how it is changing the way people travel. more accessible area and for the first time in years we have returned 1,850m2 of land to Epping Forest and We have now delivered more than 26 kilometres of planted over 50 trees in the area which is helping to segregated and semi-segregated cycle tracks on our conserve the borough’s natural areas. main routes across the borough. We have installed 395 Bikehangars, over 500 secure cycle parking In April 2019 Waltham Forest also declared a Climate spaces at our stations with further funding secured to Emergency across the borough, and I look forward to install Cycle Hubs at Blackhorse Road, Highams Park working with the Climate Emergency Commission to and Chingford Stations, and trained more than 10,000 make recommendations for how we as a borough can adults and children to ride a cycle. work together to tackle the global issue in a local context. Our streets have been reshaped using the ‘Healthy Streets’ principles and we have introduced new public I look forward to seeing what the next year will bring realm spaces, created 31 pocket parks, and trialled with our Liveable Neighbourhood bid areas, the parklets across the borough. We are not only introduction of further School Streets, and the encouraging our residents and visitors to travel development of our walking and cycling offer to actively and sustainably but to enjoy the environment expand our active travel network. www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST WALKING AND CYCLING ACCOUNT 2019 3 A Network of Cycling Routes Connecting the Borough MAP KEY CHESHUNT, BROXBOURNE Chingford and Highams Park to D A O R Crooked Billet Quiet Route E EPPING FOREST N O T S D Crooked Billet to Blackhorse Road Station Cycle Route R A W D E A S O R Bloomsbury to Walthamstow Quietway 2 Y CHINGFORD R U B Forest Road to Wood Street Cycle Route PLAIN S ROAD ANGER Lea Bridge Road Cycle Route (Cycleway 23) K R IN G S H EA ROAD D H N D Blackhorse Road to Leyton Cycle Route ILL O A CHINGFORD TI O R STA STATION D Y R RIDGEWAY A O F W S Leytonstone to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park E E G D Y PARK ID OA R A R R E W B E A I Cycle Route H M T R A O T ALL R H HIT EH OA E W D T L R D A P A W E Leyton to Lea Bridge V O O R R K D L A R G L L O I A R E L H P T ENFIELD T O A Woodford New Road Y N N C A O U CHINGFORD H H D T I O T S A R N M E K F A H D M TOWN R R Whipps Cross Road R O A N D O A L F O G CENTRE R N I E H Cycle Hub V C O R HA TC E AN G H L D H OA NEW R Hospital HA LL L AN E C H WOODFORD D I A N O G National Rail Station R F D O O R O D W L A S N K London Underground D E R A E O A U L R N E L V Station L A A E H H S T C K H D A R I A London Overground O N H IGHAMS PARK L R G K A F R Station O A 4 TOWN CENTRE P 0 R S L 6 L D O D N R HIGHAMS PARK A M O SEL E R W O NU Borough Boundary YN AVE STAT ION R T O H U R C E D I N A R T C O S T U E R E U L R D N H A E N C D V E R A N E S I L ES A W H PR EM NORT C A 406 H CIR H C BILLET ROAD U I LA N R G F O R E F N U D A L L B R O E O S REDBRIDGE U A R R O LLOYD D N D H E A K R O C PARK O R A A L r D W B E N D R O F D WALTHAMSTOW W D O A O O O R O W WETLANDS T D S TOTTENHAM E S OR HOE STREET AND T F R WOOD STREET E E STATION B H T WOOD STREES T E L O D A BLACKHORSE H C E K E W H R O S AREA N A R TREET VILLAGE WALTHAMSTOW H BLACKHORSE ROAD R S A D E CENTRAL STATION STATION VE L RO RO L R A N G D IO D O S A S IS E RO TREET A N M ELBOR D S WALTHAMSTOW WHIPPS CROSS EPPING ST JAMES WALTHAMSTOW VILLAGE M QUEEN’S ROAD STREET STATION W FOREST A H STATION IP R H PS E C S K R S O H S E S X COPPERMILL O R R O O A A U MARKHOUSE D D AREA S ST JAMES E VILLAGE ROAD PARK AD O R LT U A LEYTONSTONE SNARESBROOK, H N D A I A A I H O G R R M TOWN CENTRE G E G H LEYTON A D A WANSTEAD L I L R LEYTON N R MIDLAND ROAD W B C O O A A H R Y E A STATION L URCH R TOWN D O A L LEA BRIDGE D E CENTRE Y LEYTONSTONE R STATION T D STATION O OA A O LEYTON N R D N JUBILEE F E R LEYTONSTONE A E N R C HIGH ROAD PARK G IS E R V STATION O O O R R A G I D E O N CA L THA T I 2 LL V 1 RO W E A A A R D R Y O QUIETWAY 2 A LEYTON HARROW D ROAD STATION AD HACKNEY, RO LT ROA D ALL O LEYTONSTONE HIGH ROADH N H N A K C CENTRAL C U R LONDON ROAD FIELD WN CRO QUEEN ELIZABETH OLYMPIC PARK, STRATFORD, CYCLEWAY 23 4 ENJOY WALTHAM FOREST WALKING AND CYCLING ACCOUNT 2019 www.enjoywalthamforest.co.uk Enjoy Waltham Forest’s Network Blackhorse Village, Hoe Street and Vision 2020 target: Cycling All areas of the borough should be accessible to all by cycle Wood Street area Similar infrastructural improvements were made as Villages part of the Blackhorse Village and Hoe Street and Wood Street area Village schemes in 2016.