Ditch the Archway Roundabout - March 1st - 6.15PM

[CTC London]

Over the weekend, there has been a big effort by Better Archway Forum to put up posters in a lot of shop windows. The 2 blocks on Junction road from Absolute Print to the tube are pretty much saturated. There is a scattering of posters on the other side including MAP, Yildiz, Bean and Bread. In addition many of the local residential streets have been leafleted and leaflets have been delivered to the leafleters who are doing the remaining streets.

If you think that any junctions anywhere in Islington need to be made safe for cyclists then please come on March 1st. This is the junction that all politicians are focused on and we won't be able to get other junctions sorted until the Archway Gyratory is removed. Due to the work of The Times, the cycling bloggers, the Go Dutch campaign and upcoming Mayoral and GLA elections, cycling has become a political issue. ICAG's Chris Ashby made the comment last week that this event at Archway was exactly the kind of thing ICAG should be doing. Chris Ashby, Keith Macfarlane and Anita Frizzarin are all going to be leafleting the Archway tube this week. (I'd like to leaflet the cycle lane that runs through Whittington Park one night this week around 6 to 6.30pm, if someone will do it with me).

You might think there is nothing left for armchair activists to do. Au contraire!

If are a facebook user, if you are coming, please say so on the event page. Whether you are going or not, please go through your fb friends list and go to the event page and invite all your friends that live around north Islington or who cycle from Highgate, Muswell Hill, East Finchley, Fortis Green etc. I found a few people who I had forgotten lived locally until I went through my list. Also fb will let you create a list of 'locals' now for similar occasions! If you haven't got time right now, then simply like our fb page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Islington ... 1069704880.

If you are a twitter user, please tweet the icag webpage and we'll retweet you.
http://www.icag.org.uk/2012/ride-for-a- ... e-archway/

If you don't use fb or twitter, then please just forward the event using email (ideally using the share button) on.
http://www.icag.org.uk/2012/ride-for-a- ... e-archway/

Links to everything related, including the press release are attached to the above page.

thanks
John