Val welcomes Cycle Hire expansion to Stockwell

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Valerie Shawcross AM has welcomed news that proposals for new cycle hire docking stations are moving forward in Lambeth.

Transport for London have recently announced that the next phase of the Barclays Cycle Hire Scheme will be rolled out into southwest London by early 2014, with new docking stations planned for several locations in Stockwell. Local Labour councillors in Stockwell ward have lobbied for this development of the scheme and Val submitted their petition to the London Assembly in December 2010 calling for this improvement.

Val said ‘This is a welcome development. We support the cycle scheme and the fact that it provides a clean and green alternative way to get around. But it’s been for too concentrated north of the river – if you live south of Kennington, you currently can’t access the service. So I’m glad that TfL are working with Lambeth council to get new docking stations and bikes in action for more Lambeth residents!’

Around twenty new docking stations are proposed for the Oval and Stockwell area and the rollout will involve a further 5,000 cycles going into circulation. The next step is for the proposals to go through Lambeth’s planning process.

Val added ‘The local councillors and community worked hard collecting signatures and there is obvious support for the bikes. I hope that the Mayor and TfL will now consider rolling out the scheme to other parts of south and southeast London in the next phases of the scheme but we’ll have to go back to the waiting game on that one’.