Die-in against Greenwich cycle deaths
Woolwich Town Hall, London. Thu 7 Jun 2018
The protest was in front of Woolwich Town Hall - Greenwich is in the
London Borough of Woolwich
'It's Time to put the Green in Greenwich - Safe Bike Paths Now' and
a great paint job on a bike
Setting up the protest on the pavement
'Another 4 Deaths!!! Another Protest! Enough!!!'
Right: Victoria Lebrec, who had to have a leg amputated after a skip
lorry failed to see her and her bike, waits to speak
Traffic kills - both graphically by collisions with pedestrians and
cyclists, but more indisidiously by pollution which
causes thousands of early deaths every year - estimated at almost
10,000 deaths across London.
Early plans for Cycle Superhighway CS4 to extend to Woolwich were
apparently dropped - and councils like
Woolwich have opposed and dragged feet over safe cycling provision.
Alex Raha introduces Victoria Lebrec
Victoria Lebrec
A mock tombstone states that 280,000 have died from transport pollution
in the UK from 2010-2017. Alex Raha speaks
A friend of one of the cyclists killed speaks
Jane Davis speaks
Jane Davis
A developer speaks about the speaks about the CLOCS (Construction
Logistics and Community Safety ) scheme
aimed at reducing collisions involving vulnerable road users and construction
vehicles
A speaker from Greenwich Cyclists talks about the work he did 37 years
ago desigining safer lorries which has not been widely taken up
Cyclists wear t-shirts with a tyre track across them - to save lorries
the trouble
A speaker from Greenwich Cyclists - despite work he did 37 years ago
most lorries have very limited vision for drivers.
The CS4 section to Woolwich was allegedly dropped because the then
Woolwich council leader's personal antipathy
to Boris Johnson’s former cycling commissioner Andrew Gilligan.
New Greenwich Council leader Danny Thorpe says
he wants to see action - and I understand came to watch the protest.
A cyclist describes her daily journey to work past where two of the
cyclists were killed recently. Another cyclist died at the Woolwich Road
roundabout
in 2009, but plans for improvements there were dropped when Sadiq
Khan cancelled the 2014 Better Junctions scheme.
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