MCC Campaigning

We are campaigning for:

• Manifesto for cycling - what we want from TfL / GLA / LB Merton
• a network of safe cycle routes in the borough - safe enough for use by an unaccompanied twelve year-old
• lower speed limits, so that all roads become safe for cycling
• police to prioritise enforcement of road traffic laws e.g. crackdown on speed limit and red light violations
• radical improvements to Wimbledon town centre
• radical improvements to Morden town centre
• better air quality
• the removal of rat-running motor-traffic through Richmond Park
• the improvement of existing cycle routes, and in October 1998 completed a thorough survey.
• an attended cycle parking facility - the first of its kind in Britain - at Wimbledon Station.
• the implementation of measures advocated in the government's July 1998 Integrated Transport White Paper - see our open letter to Roger Casale MP

We are campaigning against:

• a new supermarket - this campaign now won!!
• compulsory helmet legislation

Over recent years MCC has developed a good relationship with Merton Council and we are now regularly consulted on transport planning and implementation issues.

We have put a great deal of effort into making sure that cycling is well represented in Merton's Local Transport Plan, upon which depends the amount of money the council gets for cycle schemes in the borough.

We give advice on issues ranging from design of the London Cycle Network and accident remedial schemes to location of cycle racks.

We work closely with the council to produce the Merton Cycling map, which shows all the cycle routes in the borough, both implemented and planned. It is available free from the council's libraries, bike shops, or MCC

We are also advising on improving the numbers and locations of cycle racks in the Borough - tell us where you would like to see a new rack.

We campaign on all issues that affect cycling in the borough - if you have an issue that you want us to raise, tell us about it!