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Croydon Cycling Campaign

CCC meeting minutes and agendas

Draft minutes of July monthly meeting: 20080714_CCC_Minutes.pdf

Minutes of June monthly meeting: 20080616_CCC_Minutes.pdf

Minutes of May monthly meeting: 20080519_CCC_Minutes.pdf

Other

CCC Constitution
Croydon Cycling Campaign's constitution as agreed at the 2007 AGM.

Croydon Council Meetings

Minutes of Croydon Road User Forum meeting of 18th October 2004 (proprietary Microsoft Word format)
If you prefer you can download a PDF local copy (140KB).

Air quality

Pollution In Croydon Annual Report 2001/2002 (1.4MB PDF)
Page 8 cites Croydon Health Authority figures estimating that each year, between 32 and 189 people in Croydon die prematurely because of air pollution.

Croydon AQAP 2002 (415KB PDF)
Croydon's first Air Quality Action Plan.

AQAP Progress Report 2004 (158KB PDF)
Croydon's Air Quality Action Plan progress report issued in May 2004.

DfT Transport Statistics Great Britain 2005 (3.7MB PDF)
DfT Transport Statistics Great Britain, 31st edition. Table 3.6 shows emissions per kilometre for various types of motor vehicle. Note: The DfT tends to move or remove files after a period of time. If the above link does not work, you can use this local copy instead.

Design guidance and standards

London Cycling Design Standards

Transport for London's design standards for the LCN+ cycle network, published in May 2005. This information is publicly available from TfL's website, but lower resolution versions of the PDFs are duplicated here for convenience and to provide a long-term reference. The document is lengthy, so is provided in several PDFs:

Foreward [80KB]
1. Introduction [321KB]
2. Procedures [265KB]
3. Links - Plain links without special cycle facilities [249KB]
4. Links - Cycle lanes, cycle tracks and other cycle facilities [322KB]
5. Junctions and crossings [236KB]
6. Signs and markings [205KB]
7. Construction including surfacing [122KB]
8. Cycle parking [80KB]
Appendix A - References and bibliography [27KB]
Appendix B - Liaison with TfL Signals Section [61KB]
Appendix C - Typical detail drawings [2MB]

Electric-assist cycles & UK law

DfT Factsheet: Regulations For Powered Two And Three Wheeled Vehicles (137KB PDF)
Describes European Whole Vehicle Type Approval (ECWVTA) regulations for powered 2 and 3 wheeled vehicles not meeting exemption criteria. Explains that the regulations are effective from 17th June 2003. The exemption criteria for (described on pages 1 and 2) ensure that electric-assist pedal cycles have a bicycle-like (pedelec) rather than moped-like (e-bike) feel.

DfT Factsheet: Electrically Assisted Pedal Cycle (EAPCs) in Great Britain (86KB PDF)
The DfT's understanding of UK and European regulations governing electric-assist pedal cycles. Some weasel words suggest that sale of non-conforming e-bikes should be tolerated by Trading Standards. Did they run this advice past their lawyers?!

Routes

LCN Quality Monitored Routes in Croydon report (1.1MB PDF)
September 1999 audit by Colin Buchanan & Partners of four of Croydon's LCN routes

Safety

DfT Road Casualties in Great Britain: 2004 Annual Report, table 23 (14KB PDF)
DfT Road Casualties in Great Britain: 2004 Annual Report, table 23. Shows the number and severity of collisions by combination of vehicle type; and with pedestrians by vehicle type.

Safety In Numbers in Australia (88KB PDF)
Paper from Dorothy L Robinson in the Health Promotion Journal of Australia 2005.

Abstract
Issue addressed: Overseas research shows that fatality and injury risks per cyclist and pedestrian are lower when there are more cyclists and pedestrians. Do Australian data follow the same exponential "growth rule" where (Injuries)/(Amount of cycling) is proportional to ((Amount of cycling)^-0.6)?
Method: Fatality and injury risks were compared using three datasets: 1) fatalities and amounts of cycling in Australian States in the 1980s; 2) fatality and injury rates over time in Western Australia as cycling levels increased; and 3) deaths, serious head injuries and other serious injuries to cyclists and pedestrians in Victoria, before and after the fall in cycling with the helmet law.
Results: In Australia, the risks of fatality and injury per cyclist are lower when cycling is more prevalent. Cycling was safest and most popular in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), Queensland and Western Australia (WA). New South Wales residents cycled only 47% as much as residents of Queensland and WA, but had 53% more fatalities per kilometre, consistent with the growth rule prediction of 52% more for half as much cycling. Cycling also became safer in WA as more people cycled. Hospitalisation rates per 10,000 regular cyclists fell from 29 to 15, and reported deaths and serious injuries from 5.6 to 3.8 as numbers of regular cyclists increased. In Victoria, after the introduction of compulsory helmets, there was a 30% reduction in cycling and it was associated with a higher risk of death or serious injury per cyclist, outweighing any benefits of increased helmet wearing.
Conclusions: As with overseas data, the exponential growth rule fits Australian data well. If cycling doubles, the risk per kilometre falls by about 34%; conversely, if cycling halves, the risk per kilometre will be about 52% higher. Policies that adversely influence the amount of cycling (for example, compulsory helmet legislation) should be reviewed.

Strategy

Croydon Cycling Strategy (326KB PDF)
Croydon Council's 1998 Cycling Strategy... On the whole, this is a good document, and it is still current (as at 23/01/2005).

London Cycling Action Plan (854KB PDF)
Transport for London's 2004 action plan to increase cycling in London.

Interim Local Implementation Plan (614KB)
Text-only copy of Croydon's 2001 Interim Local Implementation Plan (ILIP). Some pages left unintentionally blank! A full version should be available at the Council's web site.

DfT: Policy, Planning and Design for Walking and Cycling (1.8MB PDF)
Local Traffic Note 01/04 (draft consultation) describes in detail a framework that the Government expects local authorities to use to achieve a better environment for walking and cycling. Includes planning and design requirements for routes; the need for a transport hierarchy prioritising (in decreasing importance): walking, cycling, public transport and motor vehicles; the need to design to meet the needs of different types of pedestrians and cyclists; hierarchy of provision; descriptions of infrastructure that is helpful. Also emphasises the need for removal of one-way restrictions and banned turns affecting cycling.