Healthy Streets

The revised drawings for the planned cycle lanes along the entire length of the A105 between Enfield Town and Palmers Green are now available online.  The drawings reproduced below show the most important sections in Palmers Green only. In addition to the drawings the Council has published a "You said - we did" list: You Said - We Did You were concerned about the bus stop design – we have amended the design at 22 bus stops to create additional space between the bus and the.......

A new campaigning group is calling for a fairer balance between cars, cycles, buses and pedestrians on Enfield's roads. Better Streets for Enfield supports the Cycle Enfield (Mini Holland) plans to boost cycling and walking rates by installing bike lanes, 'quieter neighbourhoods', and redesigned high streets. Devonshire Road should by rights be a quiet residential street, but most of the time is a "rat run".  For two hours a month it turns into a Play Street (Photo:  Phil Rogers)While.......

On 19th May Enfield Council will be exhibiting the final design plans for the A105 cycle lanes scheme, revised to take account of public feedback from the last consultation round.  The exhibition will be held at Palmers Green Library from 3pm to 8pm. On the evening of Wednesday 25 May there will be a co-design workshop for residents on the design of the public realm mprovements in Palmers Green and Winchmore Hill. People have to apply for a limited number of places on this workshop, so get.......

Clare Rogers shares her thoughts about last week's Enfield Cycling Conference This conference at Enfield’s Dugdale Centre on Friday 8 April left me feeling both inspired and daunted – inspired because we were shown what is possible and already being done in the Netherlands – and daunted because Enfield has such a long way to go.  This post tries to give a taste of what was said at the conference. For more in-depth information, you can find links to each presentation.......

Text and images (with some slight reformatting) taken from the Cycle Enfield website and the A105 Consultation Report. The bus stop bypass and bus stop boarder designs that are proposed have been used in other parts of London and the UK. There are a number of councils who have implemented these designs (e.g. Camden Council and Brighton & Hove Council) who have monitored their impact and have not reported any significant issues. Whilst it is acknowledged that this is a design not previously.......

As previously reported, the Cabinet will be invited to approve moving on to the next steps of the Cycle Enfield A105 scheme at their meeting on 10th February.  Previously we provided links to the Cycle Enfield documents as part of a 600-page Agenda Pack.  We are now able to provide links to individual documents (see the box). Additionally, we have extracted from two of the documents lists of concerns raised during the consultation process and the responses provided by the Council........

Excerpts from Council Questions 28 January 2016.  All the questions below relate to Cycle Enfield, but there were many more questions and answers on a wide range of subjects.  Click here to read the complete list of questions and answers. Question 1 from Councillor Neville to Councillor Anderson, Cabinet Member for Environment I made the Cabinet Member aware on 17 December 2015 of a post by the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) urging its supporters to vote for the council's proposals.......

The notes of the meeting of the Cycle Enfield Partnership Board (Enfield West) have been provided to all participants, along with the slides used for four of the supporting presentations. The main headings below are links to PDF documents.  The bullet points are my very rough attempts at describing the content and conclusions of the documents. Notes of the meeting (click to download0 The notes do not in general duplicate the information contained in the presentation slides. .......

Following last week's meeting of the Enfield West Partnership Board, the revised proposals for cycle lanes along the A105 will be considered by Enfield Council's Cabinet on 10th February.  If, as seems likely, the proposals are approved, they will then be sent to Transport for London (TfL) for its approval.  If given the green light by TfL, the proposals will then be subject to a period of statutory public consultation. Following the consultation, the engineers would move on to.......

David Burrowes MP has published the text of a letter written to him by the Mayor of London following a meeting at which Mr Burrowes raised concerns about the Cycle Enfield scheme. In the letter Boris Johnson says that he agrees that it is "very important for Enfield, with the support of TfL, to ensure that the scheme is not moved forward to the next formal approval phase until the borough engages more extensively and intensively with residents and businesses".  He adds that Leon Daniels,.......