The Met Police will be holding it’s  ‘Exchanging Places’ event for cyclists, on Monday 16 January, on the eastbound slip road to the roundabout close to M’scDonalds, between 7am and 10am. The event aims to reduce collisions between cyclists and HGVs.  Cyclists will be given the chance to sit in the driver’s seat of a [...]

Encouraging cyclists to safe cycling this winter, Hackney Council have co-ordinated an event, hosted by the Council’s Streetscene Team, in partnership with the Metropolitan Police. Cyclists can ride in and get a free, on-the-spot bike health check and free bike marking. They can also exchange places with an HGV driver to help them understand how [...]

A police spokesman has confirmed that a female cyclist was hit by a lorry, at Old Street roundabout this morning  (24 February) at about 7.40 am. After initial treatment from paramedics, she was transported to The Royal London Hospital with head and chest injuries, which has been described as life threatening. This is the second [...]

A female cyclist in her 30′s has been injured after an HGV lorry collided with her bike, at the junction of Baldwin Street and City Road in EC1. The accident happened at approximately 8.50 am this morning. Police and emergency services were called. A police spokesperson said the cyclist was transported to a hospital with [...]

The cyclist who lost his life after colliding with a lorry at Dalston Junction on 2 February has been identified as 28 yr-old Daniel Cox of Clapton. An inquest opened and adjourned at Poplar Coroner’s Court on Tuesday, 8 February. Mr. Cox was a graduate of Goldsmiths College and an art theorist, who worked part [...]

National Rail and Transport for London (TFL) recently released their performance reports for the period of July to September 2010.  For Hackney, this information is pertinent as most residents get about, using at least one if not more modes of public transport. The reports look at rail services by train operators: Heathrow Express, C2C, Chiltern, [...]

You can say cycling has become second nature here in the borough of Hackney.  According to London Cycling Campaign (LCC  represents cyclists in London), not only does Hackney have the highest percentage of people cycling to work in London out of any London borough, but also an ever increasing amount of people taking to the [...]

The new East London link is almost ready! Commissioning has begun at Dalston Junction station as final preparations are made to open phase one of the East London Line. The line will join the Over ground network from New Cross Gate, south of the river, to Dalston Junction in the north east. The plan is [...]

Commuters using some Hackney Stations will be inconvenienced until 1st of June while they undergo essential engineering works.  They are Hackney Central, Homerton, Hackney Wick and Dalston Kingsland. Rail replacement bus services will run instead and will operate every 20 minutes except for Sundays when it will be every 30 minutes. A time table can be [...]