We have published our call to LBTH and TfL to act in the face of the pandemic, to reshape our streets with a people focussed approach.

We identify measures that are urgently needed:

1. The removal of railings and street clutter to ensure social distancing,
2. Bans on parking and loading to widen pavements around shops and supermarkets,
3. The creation of temporary cycle lanes, the re-timing of pedestrian crossings and traffic intersections,
4. Street closures for high streets.

Five Tower Hamlets mayoral candidates faced residents' questions for the first time this election season on Thursday, 5 April, appearing at the Cycling and Walking Hustings arranged by the borough's cycling campaign group Tower Hamlets Wheelers. The current Mayor, John Biggs (Labour), was joined in Limehouse Town Hall by Anwara Ali (Conservative), Elaine Bagshaw (Liberal Democrat), Ciaran Jebb (Green) and Rabina Khan (People's Alliance of Tower Hamlets).

Tower Hamlets Wheelers, the borough group of the London Cycling Campaign, has today launched the Tower Hamlets Cycling Manifesto.

Good news on the progress of Tower Hamlets becoming a 20mph borough. At the LBTH Cabinet meeting on 4 February 2015 it was resolved to:

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LB Tower Hamlets is currently asking for feedback on proposals for a 20mph speed limit on the borough's roads.

Find out more and send your support of these proposals to LBTH using our handy web form and template letter. The deadline for comments is 31 October 2014.

Today at 6:00pm, for a 6.30pm start, London Cycling Campaign will mount a peaceful flash protest in response to the four recent cycling deaths in just over a week, and the increasing number of serious cycling injuries. The most recent fatality, a young woman in her mid-20s at Bow roundabout this morning, was the third cyclist to die at this location.

Representatives from Tower Hamlets Wheelers and the London Cycling Campaign (LCC) today urged LB Tower Hamlets to publicly engage and lead on reducing the danger from lorries in the borough.

Meeting outside the Town Hall, a letter was handed to Councillor Shahid Ali, Cabinet Member for Environment and Jamie Blake, Director Public Realm asking for the council's support of the LCC's Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling pledge.

Lorry crashes are the number one cause of cyclist fatalities. Please write to your council today (using the online tool at lcc.org.uk/pages/safer-lorries) to help reduce the death toll on our streets.

The London Cycling Campaign has released a progress report on its Safer Lorries, Safer Cycling campaign and it's not good reading for those cycling in Tower Hamlets. Our council has been given the lowest possible mark for their inaction on committing to use the safest lorries and best-trained drivers.

Three quick things you can do to help increase support for a better city for us to cycle and walk in.