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Unless we revive utility cycling in the borough; for example, few Green School girls ride to the school, then I fear we are creating another Stevenage.
And your plan for upping utility cycling is to send kids out into the state of traffic so clearly documented in the 'Reporting bad drivers' thread?
Backstop-
Not sure what you are saying here or perhaps its my bad syntax
The Green School is Walthamstow School for Girls , a secondary school. Both my daughters are alumini
Its on the edge of the Village..
Even as things stand it's ok to cycle to. My girls could have done from Whipps X. Neither of them did
There is not a cycling culture amongst their peers. Cycling is just some that their dad bores them with.If I have had a point in my posts it's been about creating a culture of cycling in Waltham Forest. It's what you do to get some where, it need not define you.
You can build all the infrastructure you want but it probably won't create a cycling culture.
Bike shops at the Bakers Arms and on Hoe street selling cheap but decent utility bikes might make help create a Waltham Forest bike culture..
And so might cycling lessons at Leytonstone school , the Green School and Connaught girls
Peter_Carter
Simon, I d agree it's settling down and the traffic is flowing.
However, the battle for hearts and minds is being lost. I can not get my hair cut or shoes mended without hearing about bloody MH. There is also , I am afraid some truth in the Tarquin stereotype of the village.
To be honest, apart from the LCC and the LVCC there's not yet much utilty cycling in the borough. It would be interesting to know how many of our cyclist's moved to e10/e17 in the last 2-3 years.
Unless we revive utility cycling in the borough; for example, few Green School girls ride to the school, then I fear we are creating another Stevenage.