Dear John,
Below are excerpts from an email, relating to Westminster, sent to one of our members - there might be other similar campaigns in Hammersmith & Fulham, Kensington & Chelsea and the City of London.
"Please take two minutes to tell Westminster City Council that its Air Quality Action Plan is not good enough – electric vehicles are not a silver bullet! Also, is a cycle hangar planned for your street? Show your support otherwise it might not get installed.
Respond to Westminster's Air Quality Action Plan
Westminster’s air pollution is the second worst in London, and most of it comes from traffic. So why are there no measurable targets to reduce traffic or boost walking and cycling in the council’s Air Quality Action Plan 2019-2024?
Its five key actions on transport start with providing more electric vehicle charging points. The others include investigating changes to parking bays and permits.
All these actions are fine, but without specific targets and measures to reduce motor traffic and enable active travel they are nowhere near enough.
Tell the council they must do better for the health of everyone who lives, works or studies in Westminster. The consultation is open until Wednesday 26 February.
You could make these points in your own words using the comment boxes:
Question 3:
- Set a target to reduce motor traffic overall, as the City of London has done, by using measures like low traffic neighbourhoods. Changes to parking looks promising but vague.
- Remove barriers to all-age walking and cycling across Westminster to make non-polluting active travel the natural choice for short journeys.
Question 5:
- Set a target to roll out 'school streets' (traffic-free at school run hours) across the borough.
RESPOND HERE
Please support your local cycle hangar
Westminster City Council's existing on-street residential cycle parking hangars are a roaring success. Every cycle hangar is full and has a waiting list to rent one of its six secure cycle parking spaces at a cost of £72/year.
There's a new public consultation on plans for 29 more cycle hangars. We have learnt lessons from losing some cycle hangars to opposition in the previous public consultation:
- Cycle hangars were cancelled if they received more emails in opposition than support, so please send a quick email to [email protected] by Wed 12 Feb
- Emails giving general support but not naming a specific cycle hangar site didn't count, so please support specific cycle hangar site(s) named below
Many Westminster residents live in small flats with little space to park a bike. Cycle hangars enable more residents to travel by this zero-emission, active travel mode.
Residents in the West End have been overlooked until now. The first cycle hangars are proposed in Chiltern Street W1U, Dean Street W1D, Golden Square W1F, Tavistock Street WC2E & Greycoat Lane SW1P.
Residents in St John's Wood NW8 also missed out in the previous round. The first cycle hangars are proposed in Blenheim Terrace, Mackennal Street, Marlborough Place & Wellington Place.
In Pimlico SW1V we've heard that the residents' association FREDA has already objected to proposed cycle hangars in Alderney Street, Belgrave Road, Gloucester Street & St George's Drive. Please raise your own voice.
Additional cycle hangars are proposed in the north of the borough:
W2: Porchester Square, Queensborough Terrace, Venice Walk x 2
W9: Biddulph Road, Delaware Road, Grantully Road, Hormead Road x 2, Lauderdale Road, Portnall Road, Randolph Avenue, Sutherland Avenue, Warwick Avenue
W10: Dart Street, Huxley Street
Join us to find out about the latest cycling issues in Westminster, raise issues that affect you, and have your say. Westminster Cycling Campaign"
With best wishes,
Vivien Lichtenstein
Chair / Coordinator
West Central London Green Party
07528 292808
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