cwjlawrence Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Here?s some good news to cheer you all up on a > cold Monday night! > > Coming back from my daughter's primary school last > Friday, I counted 54 unique bicycles between > leaving Dulwich Hamlets (not including she or I), > cycling along Calton Ave and down EDG to Melbourne > Grove. You?re not misreading that - it was 54 > bikes in a 5 minute cycle ride. It was like being > in Beijing in the 70s! > > I've never seen anything like this in East Dulwich > and certainly not in the dark on a foggy day in > winter! 10 years ago, I wouldn't expect to see > anyone cycling and even last year there maybe be > only 1 or 2 people, and probably MAMILs at that. > Contrast this with this scene of this number of > cyclists (of which only 1 or 2 were MAMILS!) going > to and from school/work. > > In my son's class at school, there has been a real > shift in how his classmates get to school with > children now cycling from Clapham who used to get > driven over in rush-hour traffic. > > If this is what it?s like in winter, just imagine > what it?s going to be like come the spring - an > active travel paradise! When you live in the Golden Triangle of Dulwich - all manner of wonderful transformational sights can be seen. But for the rest of us. Nah,