London Cycling Campaign are organising "Bike Tubes": organised rides to work for new cyclists:

http://lcc.org.uk/pages/london-biketubes-2016

One is leaving from London Fields Station at 07:30 to Farringdon via Old St.

https://www.theguardian.com/public-leaders-network/2016/jul/12/developers-estate-agents-and-homeowners-cash-in-on-crossrail-london-elizabeth-line

A project called Energy Garden has been set up to green Overground stations and add solar PV power generation to help fund it.

This sounds like a great idea to me and a good way to advertise sustainability locally.

Other organisations like Repowering London are involved too, so it would make a good complement to Hackney Energy.

They only have limited…

The council has published the draft of its 10 year transport strategy for consultation:

https://consultation.hackney.gov.uk/streetscene/draft-hackney-transport-strategy/consult_view

Comments need to be received by 5pm on Friday 24th October.

The full notice is below.

Please comment on how Sustainable Hackney…

Jules Pipe told the Hackney Cyclists' meeting on Wednesday that TfL have informed him that returning the Stoke Newington Gyratory to 2-way working is on their work plan for 2018.

Was anyone else aware of this?

I'm not sure exactly what it means: will this definitely happen or will it maybe happen depending on funding etc.?

I look forward to more details, but it definitely sounds like good news.