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