Streets For Cycling – 1st Pledge

You may recall from our last newsletter that London Cycling Campaign are asking local council party leaders to pledge to build a safe cycle network in Hillingdon. On the 19th of April we received our first pledge, from the Green Party. The full text of their email is...

Local Elections Underway

Hillingdon Civic Centre (Image: Conrad Roth CC-BY-2.0) With less than a month to go until residents get to vote on who should represent them as councillors, the Hillingdon Association of Residents Associations (HARA) have organised a hustings which will take place...

Where Did That Cycle Lane Come From?

As a teenager, I remember being really impressed with the first segregated cycle lane I got to ride on, right on my doorstep on the Uxbridge Road in Hayes. In my youthful naivety I thought these would spring up everywhere. Forty years later the same cycle lane is...

Launch of LCC Streets For Cycling Campaign

The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) now has an action for our local group, Hillingdon Cycling Campaign, to get its teeth into! Given that local elections are to be held in May, LCC is asking local political leaders to make a simple pledge: if elected, build a safe cycle...

Hillingdon Second Bottom for Healthy Streets

In an unwelcome but not unsurprising report from campaign group Healthy Streets, Hillingdon has again come 32nd in London on the 7th Healthy Streets Scorecard measure for 2025. Only the London Borough of Bexley comes below Hillingdon in the table. Our neighbouring...