Transport Group Brainstorming ideas
The Transport Group launched at our AGM in May 2013 where we had a massive response to our brainstorming activity - see below the ideas participants came up with.
Most popular ideas
* Cycle Commuter Group Rides
* Community car club
* Cycle route through CP park & better junctions at top of park
* Play Streets & Home Zones
* Art Trails with upcycled art
* Cycle parking in and around the Triangle
* Bike fixing days
Cycling issues
* Help residents get councils to provide on-street secure cycling parking for residents
* Cargo Bike runs for the food market
* Cycling Festival in CP Park
Walking, community-building and fun events
* Social picnic walks for families & older people
* Children's bike days? Cycling with children as a group?
* Orienteering, treasure seeking, geocaching, local adventure
* Travel Befrienders for people with mental health problems
Things to lobby and campaign on
* Lobby for tram extension to Crystal Palace
* Push for electric bike rental scheme (2 responses)
* Better, clearer cycle lanes & signage
* Sustrans cycle to school schemes
* Lobby TfL to make bus drivers do mandatory cycle awareness training
* Charging points for plug-in electric vehicles
* Upgrade all bus stops with better weather protection & Countdown boards
* Work with the councils to make junctions safer for cyclists
* Thameslink 2018 @ Norwood Junction
* 20mph boroughs for safer streets
* Advertise "Beware Bikes" on back of commercial vehicles in big bold lettering
* Lots more parking bays
* Reduce Triangle car parking to some short stay bays & use space for people + planting
Maps & Knowledge
* Cost, Carbon, Calorie calculators
* Personal travel planning
* Walking routes for parents & kids around CPTT projects
* Palace transport map
* Signage for distance or time on foot/bike from epicentre of CP
* User-friendly area maps showing beginner cycling routes incl parks where allowed
* Quick connections map showing how to get from A-B by a number of routes (especially buses)
* Map of cycle routes beginning or ending in CP or nearby
Blue sky or pie-in-the-sky?
Obviously some of these brainstorm ideas would need a lot of community and business consent to be carried through, and do not at the moment represent CPTT policy!
* Ditch the one-way
* Pedestrianise the Triangle
* Paxton Bike Tunnel
* Cycle lift ("like ski lift") up Anerley Hill