At the full meeting of Westminster City Council on Wednesday evening, people from across St John's Wood presented the petition against the current designs for the C51 Cycle Highway. At the close of the petition, 1065 people had given their support, including 802 in Abbey Road ward itself. This is a fantastic result and demonstrates the strength of feeling against C51 locally.
During the meeting, Cllr Hannah Galley pressed the Labour Cabinet Member for Highways on the data that the council are using to justify these invasive and costly schemes. In particular she asked for data on cycle incidents that have taken place on Hamilton itself. She drew attention to the fact the council’s own estimates of the volume of traffic on this road (3,000 cars per day in each direction) demonstrate that an advisory cycle lane would be entirely appropriate (in line with the London Plan and Westminster’s own Local Implementation Plan).
Watch their exchange here and find out more about the campaign on our website.
