The main path through West Harrow Recreation Ground has been resurfaced in preparation for being converted to a shared cycle/pedestrian route (currently cycling is prohibited according to local byelaws).

This new link will allow people to cycle between Wilson Gardens / Butler Road and Welbeck Road, which are minor residential roads suitable for cycling.

The All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group published its report today, which calls for a national cycling champion to lead a drive for 10 per cent of all journeys in Britain to be by bike by 2025.

Please sign this epetition to urge the Government to implement these recommendations in full:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/49196

Key recommendations include:

• More of the transport budget should be spent on supporting cycling, at a rate initially set to at least £10 per person per year, and increasing as cycling levels increase

• Cycling should be considered at an earlier stage in all planning decisions, whether transport schemes or new houses or businesses

• More use should be made of segregated cycle lanes, learning from the Dutch experience

• Urban speed limits should generally be reduced to 20 mph

• Just as children learn to swim at school they should learn to ride a bike

Halfords on Sheepcote Rd 2pm-5.30pm on Sat 13 April

St Albans church in North Harrow at 10am-12pm on Sat 20 April

The Metropolitan Police Safer Transport Team in Harrow are offering FREE bike marking to anyone who would like it. They use the equipment supplied by Bike Register.com (usual cost £16.90) and send you an email with the registration details.

This Wednesday (5th December) is the deadline for submissions of evidence to the All Party Parliamentary Cycling Group. They are writing a report to advise ministers on how to Get Britain Cycling.

Submissions should be sent via e-mail to Adam Coffman (coffmana@parliament.uk). Submissions should be brief and any submissions of more than six pages long should include a table of contents.

http://allpartycycling.org/inquiry/

Please send them your ideas by Wednesday.

Harrow, Ealing and Brent councils are planning to construct a signed cycle route from Stanmore to the Thames. The report and map can be downloaded from here:
Report (3.3MB): http://ubuntuone.com/78ntHHW2jRf6tFKYDbI92G
Map (3.4MB): http://ubuntuone.com/543gry6bBpYVZ1mAFikmrL

Our opinion is here: http://ubuntuone.com/2Nn9ZitXKfUjBghCwZb3yi

The idea is that the route should run through as many open spaces as possible with the remainder on quiet roads. There will be some new infrastructure built (making some roads two-way, some toucan crossings, resurfacing some off-road routes).

Tony and Anoop rode this route on 19 August, and we have posted some photos of the route:
http://www.cyclestreets.net/search/id/asc/?search=stanmorethames19aug

The proposed route will be:

1. Start at Stanmore station
2. Via minor roads and a short stretch on Marsh Lane to Stanmore Park

Researchers at the University of East Anglia and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine modelled possible changes in occurrence of diseases if people walked and cycled more. If, on average, people walked 1.6km and cycled 3.4km compared to walking 0.6km and cycling 0.4km, there would be a significant decrease in diabetes, cancer, dementia, heart disease, stroke and depression. This is estimated to save the NHS in England and Wales £17 billion over the next 20 years.

This implies that building better cycle infrastructure which encourages people to cycle will be good for the economy.

Read the article here (it is available free of charge but you have to choose a Lancet username and password)

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2812%2960...

Click http://harrowcyclists.org.uk/node/152 for details.

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Sky Ride is coming to Hillingdon for the first time this summer!

Harrow Cyclists will be leading a feeder ride to Hillingdon departing
from Harrow-on-the-Hill station @ 10am.

All are welcome, and we could especially use a few experienced
marshalls to help out!

http://www.goskyride.com/Hillingdon

Harrowcyclists will have a stall at the Under one sky festival at Kodak sports Ground Harrow View. We will be there from about noon to 5pm and would welcome any members to our stall.