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Your friends, neighbours and fellow Londoners are counting on your vote!
… the streets are safer, cleaner, greener and belong to everyone! If you agree, if you live in the borough, talk to your neighbours and community about why more change matters and please VOTE on May 7th! Thank you and onwards! 💪🚴♂️🌳🚶♀️🧑🦽🚶♂️🌼🚴♀️💪
Cyclists enjoying the new contraflow lane on Blomfield road, helping to close the ‘Paddington gap’
While we’re immensely proud that we’ve gone from a "cycling black hole" to an award-winning leader (Highly Commended at the 2025 LCC Awards), there is still a LOT more work ahead. But the progress is real and the data is clear, Westminster needs to continue to be a place where…
Bike hangars encourage cycling and cleaern, greener streets.
70% of us live in flats, in the borough. Westminster has hit its target of 1,000+ secure residential cycle hangars but more are needed for the two thirds of driverless households who might love to have a bicycle (but not keep it in their 4th floor walk-up living room). So…
Westminster school kids enjoying cleaner air on a newly pedestrianised Stanhope Place.
We want better air quality for ALL. Campaigning has seen 12+ School Streets become permanent, with nitrogen dioxide levels at drop-off plummeting by 30–60%. It's a move that's not just safer for kids, it's a lifesaver for 250k+ people who live & work here. Speaking of residents…
Westminster still woefully short of routes across the city centre
All the recent progress doesn't negate the fact that we're still horribly short on decent passages North/South & East/West, which undoubtedly contributes to Westminster's still troubling safety record. The momentum MUST keep going. It’s not just the lives of cyclists at stake..➡️
…like the Oxford Street pedestrianisation plan. We all know cyclists & walkers spend more time (& money) in local shops than drivers. But an economic & environmental win will be soured, without some visionary planning for the 4500 cyclists displaced from it. AND…
The council’s first fully kerbed cycle lane, recently opened on Westbourne Terrace
The expansion of Cycleways C43 & C51 (whoop!), as well as the 1st fully kerbed lane on Westbourne Terrace by Westminster council, which means the borough is finally stitching together routes that feel safe for everyone, we do need strong leadership for the seismic changes ahead ➡️
London's growing cycling population...
London has officially hit a record 1.5 million daily cycle journeys in 2025/26—a staggering 43% increase since 2019. Westminster needs to be the engine room for growth because if you can’t get through the centre safely, the whole network fails. And while we’ve been cheered by…
The many cyclists in our fair borough...
As we head full pelt into election season, it’s pretty😯🤪🤯to think how far things have come in @citywestminster.bsky.social . For decades, this borough was the "missing link" in London’s cycle network. In 2026, it is starting to become the heart of it. Here’s why the shift here matters👇
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Cyclists in Westminster
Because new/updated cycleways often means that curbs, pavements, sightlines, markings and bus stops are adapted to be more safe & accessible. Another reason to support more changes in this borough and across the city!
Kids enjoying a walk from school to hyde park on a soon-to-be completed, newly pedestrianised Stanhope Place
encouraging more kids to walk to school safely & locals to make more short trips on foot (setting up great habits for life). And guess who benefits from not just side zebras but from all cycling infrastructure plans, other than cyclists? EVERYONE. Why?
We think side zebras are a huge benefit for all mammals in the concrete jungle! Overall compliance was up 50+% across the scheme and 93% of pedestrians were in favour, too. And when safety is improved, active travel normally flourishes. This means …
A freshly painted side zebra on Ebury St /Pimlico Road
Vehicle compliance was doubled to 60%! Still room for improvement - perhaps because the road markings in Soho looked pretty tired (pictured is a fresher job on Ebury St /Pimlico Rd). So, what's our overall verdict on side zebras?
…drivers giving way to those on foot here had a meagre compliance rate of 30% before the side zebra kicked in...this was shocking to consider when we saw such an obvious dominance of pedestrian traffic. So, what happened after the stripes were painted..?
Lastly, for due diligence of our own, we checked out the busiest location for the side zebras. In Soho, at Wardour St / Old Compton St, there is a whopping 1600pph using the junction, with people spilling off the pavements into the roads. Frighteningly, despite this…
Side zebras at work in other areas of use…
Side zebras at work in other areas of use…
Side zebras at work in other areas of use…
…if side zebras look familiar - it’s because they are! They’re already in frequent use in heavily pedestrian areas like hospital, university and car park settings - in fact, these are what inspired Max in the first place!
Westminster councillor Max Sullivan
Although @maxsullivan.bsky.social is trialing them in Westminster, the department of transport doesn’t currently permit zebras without beacons, (as @chrisboardman.bsky.social knows too well). But the Welsh government has made the change & there’s hope we will too. But these aren’t even a new idea...
Neither location felt busy by London standards, so we visited two at Edgware Rd tube, where 1500+pph use the street to enter/exit the station. We missed rush hour but at heaviest volume, there were staggering compliance improvements, from 20% to 80%! So why the controversy?
Is it an anomaly? Horseferry Rd & Regency Pl is another eg (near the Dept of Transport!). It's close to a taxi rank, causing a lot of U-turns for black cabs, so a good spot for one. So, what did the Westminster survey find? Compliance improved from 35% to 85%! However➡️
Westminster’s inaugural side zebra, a stone’s throw from parliament
We visited one on Great Peter St / Millbank. Peak vehicle flow on the side road is about 250 vehicles per hour, with a peak pedestrian rate of approx 600 people per hour. As a result of the side zebras, @CityWestminster saw vehicle compliance improve from 50% to 80%! Superb but...➡️
Financially costly zebra crossing with beacons
If yes, there would be benefits beyond greater safety. Not only are painted stripes much easier to roll out, they cost a fraction of our traditional zebras, which run up to £120,000 to design & install 😯, with London side zebras starting a mere snip at £5k. So ➡️
TFL traffic safety data
…found that 50–75% of drivers did NOT give way to pedestrians. Worrying data also found not only did 37% of pedestrian fatalities happen at junctions, but 50% of serious injuries happen within 20 feet of one.. So can a bit of paint significantly change that?
1 of 11 new ‘side zebras’ in the borough
1 of 11 new ‘side zebras’ in the borough
1 of 11 new ‘side zebras’ in the borough
Side Zebras are painted stripes on the junction of side roads (minus flashing beacons). Since a change to the highway code in 2022, drivers must give way to pedestrians on ALL side street junctions, but @citywestminster.bsky.social did their own study of compliance to the new(ish) rule and...😳➡️
Here at WCC we’re interested in road safety for ALL, so we were intrigued when a new (and bizarrely contentious) kind of crossing started popping up in our borough: the ‘Side Zebra’! There’s only 11 in London and they’re all in Westminster. So what are they and do they work?
Rollercoaster thread on what's been going on at WCC HQ for the last 3 months - with some great news at the end!
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