St Mary Axe - Lunchtime Streets
St Mary Axe - Lunchtime Streets
24 July 2019
Making the streets safer for people is key to both the City of London Corporation's Transport Strategy and the Road Danger Reduction and Active Travel Plan. The Active City Network support this.
The next Lunchtime Streets initiative will take place at St Mary’s Axe on the 13, 14 and 15 August.
Tuesday 13th August
Street Garden – Deck chairs, trees and grass
Music - Niteblues Original Steel Band
Street Food Market:
• Snow White – Ice Cream
• Illegally Delicious Cakes
• Bamboo House Oriental Fusion
• The German Sausage
• Berlin Donner Wraps and Salads
• Love Eat Hiltons Macaroons
• Pedal powered free coffee
Wednesday 14th August
Street Garden – Deck chairs, trees and grass
Urban Bicycle Fair:
• HSBC UK British Cycling – everyday cycling stall
• Canyon Bikes - expo of the latest industry leading products
• havebike - free bicycle and maintenance tutorials
• Cycle Confident – urban biking quiz
• Rollapalluza Smoothie bike – free pedal powered fruit smoothies
• Pedal powered free coffee
• Pedal Me – bike taxi
• Freebike – electric bike hire service – free rides
• Transport for London - information stall
Street Food Market
Thursday 15th August
Street Garden – Deck chairs, trees and grass
Music - Skya String Quartet – popular classical music
Garden games
• Golf Putting
• Outdoor Boules
• 9 Pin Skittle Alley
• Table Football
• Giant Jenga
Street Food Market
The trial we ran in March was very successful. During the four day event 273 participants gave us their comments o a Lunchtime Street survey.
The highlight was that an incredible 95% of participants showed support for the trial and making St Mary Axe traffic free at lunchtime.
88% said they support or strongly support the diversion of daytime traffic from St Mary Axe to make space for street activities on a permanent basis and 85% of participants rated their experience as being enjoyable or extremely enjoyable.
Following on from this trial (on an already closed road), Lunchtime Streets will be return to St Mary Axe in August and will remove of all non-essential traffic from the area for the lunch period.
During the 13, 14, 15 August we will create extra space for the local community to enjoy a range of on-street activities during their lunch break. Please come and give us your view and feedback on this initiative to make the streets safer
This is an example of what people wanted to see at a Lunchtime Streets
"Lunchtime Streets will engage with the public and re-envision how public space can be used, while also trialling methods of retiming freight and serving traffic".
We encourage you to come down and give us your views because understanding the effects and perceptions of the local community when reducing traffic at a peak times, when most people are travelling on foot or bicycle will be key to making the streets safer
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