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gine everyday transport by bicycle and believe in general that having all possible routes for motor vehicles open is a good thing the quietway element of the mayor s vision hit precisely this snag it turned out as i expected that it was actually poltically far easier to carve space for cycling out of main roads by physical segreagtion than it was to create routes on minor roads by closing rat runs those who depend on car transport typically only think their street should be quieted the next one and the next one they should all be rat runs to allow them to get places fast this is a fundamental problem we have seen that there is not yet political consensus on the general desirability and practicality of low traffic residential areas in london we ve seen that again and again in lambeth loughborough road area camden west kentish town hackney london fields and so on where progressive proposals from boroughs for area wide traffic reduction in residential districts have been defeated by opponents but judging from consultation results and also conversations i have with politicians we do have consensus that main roads should allow protected space for cycling we need the calmed neighbourhoods as well of course for many reasons beyond cycling but it looks like being a while still before that argument can be generally won then again a main point about the 2012 campaign was we were trying to influence the mayor and he controlled not the neighbourhood roads but the major ones so it made sense for the campaign to be calling for stuff that he could bring about directly the point about the main road treatments is they really do generate new users they get people out of their cars and off the buses and tubes and start to build up the mass of influence we need to get the other more difficult changes through that s why attempting to start with the other stuff wouldn t be very effective that s why i stressed in the video this is the first step to generating a real mass cycling culture the propaganda power of the cycle track carved in granite out of what was previously space ruled by motors is huge and immediately comprehended by those who have never thought about this subject before in a way that filtered permeability just isn t in other words as paul gannon said to me back in the last century people cycling on separate tracks on busy roads make other people think i could could do that too to a far greater extent than any other engineering measure or piece of promotion does the proof of all this seems to me to be amply demonstrated by what we see on the roads of central london today mind you i never expected to see the scene that was videoed by wayne david last saturday at the embankment site of the east west cycle superhighway the route for which i first suggested to andrew gilligan the future mayor s cycling commissioner in 2012 hundreds of people on bikes just rode down embankment in london pic twitter com sgtrjabrlq waynedavid waynedavid81 july 23 2016 clearly this was not the normal usage of the embankment even on a busy day for cycling bike biz tried to get to the bottom of what it actually was seemingly a semi organised semi counter cultural semi commercial youth street happening it attracted criticism but i cannot but agree with one commentator on the bikbiz article who wrote looks like they ve done a better job at getting young people on bikes than all of the government schemes put together they may have been preparing for the ridelondon freecycle this saturday this annual mass ride around closed streets in central london has existed for many years under various names and sponsors it was first suggested to the then mayor ken livingstone by lcc i ve been somewhat negative about this event in the past of the 2011 event then called sky ride i wrote in this event a seven mile circuit of central london streets is given over exclusively to bikes for a few hours once a year cyclists are dressed up like yellow canaries for no apparent reason except to unwillingly advertise sky sports and a huge number of obstructive barriers is erected around the mall to prevent anybody from conveniently walking anywhere enforced by a huge number of paid for the day officious event staff who shout orders at you and tell you what a good time you are having i saw it as rather tokenistic and an excuse for the mayor not taking decisive action to make cycling an everyday option for londoners to expect sky ride to encourage more people to cycle under everyday london traffic conditions is like expecting the experience of taking a cross channel ferry to encourage people to swim the channel it unrealistic as the conditions are so profoundly different but from where i sit now having seen the changes since then i reckon i was a bit harsh perhaps these events though demonstrating the suppressed demand did contribute to generating the political pressure that brought our present infrastructure programme into being and strangely enough i am quite looking forward to this weekend s event it looks far better than ever before with a route that does not use the same roads there and back as in the past but is a real loop round with various interesting alternatives to explore using in part the new east west superhighway but closing a lot of other roads to motor traffic besides and of course if you are lucky enough to come from an appropriate direction you can use a superhighway to get there maybe i will see you there look out for the vole posted by david arditti at 02 40 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels boris johnson cycle superhighways cycle tracks cycling policy lcc tuesday 26 july 2016 the cycle superhighway reaches hyde park construction of the east west cycle superhighway or cs3 in london has been continuing and the sections on the roads in hyde park are nearly built and to pleasing quality from the already famous section on the embankment which opened on 6 may the opening was boris johnson s last act as mayor of london the route is programmed to go via bridge street parliament square and george street already constructed via a new path on birdcage walk by st james s park a new bollard segregated section past buckingham palace mentioned in this post and an upgraded path along the margin of green park in constitution hill to the crossing of hyde park corner and thence along south carriage drive in hyde park it will then turn sharply north on to west carriage drive wrongly labelled as exhibition road in tfl s own diagram below and exit the park at lancaster gate as i ve pointed out before this routing is not the most logical and i expect most cyclists actually following the east west route to connect from apsley gate at hyde park corner to lancaster gate via the existing cycle path of the broad walk and the north carriage drive which is more direct than the official route which seems to have been chosen for political reasons between the royal parks authority and transport for london i guess they did not want to encourage more cyclists on to the already busy broad walk full of pedestrians cyclists and skateboarders which has painted line segregation and a poor design which is not effective at keeping pedestrians and cyclists apart one foolishness is that the benches must be accessed from the footpath by crossing the cycle path it would be better to use the benches as a barrier rather than change this poor design in broad walk the authorities have chosen to built a new high quality route along the south and west carriage drives which already had cycle facilities but poor ones this is in many ways a good thing it creates a high quality high capacity motor traffic free connection from hyde park corner to kensington gardens and south kensington exhibition road to replace the far too narrow existing line segregated path along the south side of the park at the same time it benefits walkers taming the rat run of south carriage drive and taking flows of cyclists on the east west axis well away from flows of pedestrians the work on west carriage drive is also in itself welcome and long overdue replacing the strange and illogical mixture on on and off road facilities on different sides of the road that existed before and creating a top quality cycle connection north south across the park from exhibition road to westbourne terrace linking south kensington to the future western extension of the superhighway boris johnson opens the first phase of the east west superhighway in may two way superhighway on the west side of bridge street heading for signals in parliament square the old cycle path on broad walk does not effectively keep pedestrians out at busy times and is often closed for events south carriage drive as it was a wide open fast rat run for cars with a painted cycle line that only hardened cyclists dared use and space wasting central islands that forced pedestrians to cross the road in two stages building work on south carriage drive in early july a swathe of road on the park side is being segregated off for a 4m wide track the old pedestrian islands are going along with the old cycle lane and the whole road is being moved southwards to the right slightly a completed section of 4m segregation on south carriage drive near hyde park corner the old cycle lane markings are still present and the red surface is old presumably it will be resurfaced the track on the east side of the west carriage drive is largely complete and is 4m wide generally but widens to 6m at alexandra gate to allow for lanes for cyclists heading to and from exhibition road and cyclists following the superhighway from and to south carriage drive charlie fernandes charliecycling demonstrates the width of the track approaching alexandra gate exhibition road the pavement has been rebuilt and the old poor on pavement cycle track is gone the track in west carriage drive gracefully allows cyclists to bypass the near permanent traffic jam that has always made cycling here so unpleasant and inefficient in the past a chamfered kerb has been used here which is good practice and in the distance a table runs across both cycle track and carriageway at a pedestrian crossing point detail of the speed table on the track the ramp has cobble ish stones but is fairly benign i don t know why a zebra crossing was not used are royal parks are antipathetic to these the track becomes very wide again on the curve north of the serpentine bridge this is very good design there is something of a slope here and some cyclists will be going fast at the junction of the track with the car park entrance the extra width here gives room for errors by both drivers and cyclists the same viewed from the north an odd thing has occurred her in the cycle track having a black machine laid surface but the carriageway being reddish as is often royal park s practice the colours are thus the reverse of the dutch convention when i viewed these facilities in early july they were not yet open though of course cyclists were trying to use them the building of the linkage through lancaster gate a hitherto highly unpleasant racetrack gyratory and major blockage on the cycle network had not started i believe work in westbourne terrace further north has started however this is the last part of the superhighway that is currently approved for construction in april consultation took place on the next section taking cs3 and the superhighways firmly into west london via the elevated westway section of the a40 this idea by johnson s cycling commissioner andrew gilligan was not universally welcomed by cycle campaigners who generally would have preferred a more accessible and humane route on the surface but i supported it as due to the obstructiveness of the royal borough of kensington and chelsea who seem to have a horror of the idea of cycle tracks on their roads there was really no alternative for westwards continuation at that time transport for london have jurisdiction over the a40 we await a decision by the new mayor sadiq khan on the continuation of cs3 on the westway as well as the northward continuation of cs6 the north south superhighway from farringdon road to judd street and the commencement of works on cs11 from portland place to swiss cottage all these were consulted on earlier this year and despite the vicious campaign against cs11 that i reported o n all secured a high level of public support khan must now start to make good his election promise to make london a byword for cycling so far we have only heard generalities from him except for a commitment to create a new walking and cycling bridge in east london and a commitment to pedestrianise oxford street which may or may not work out well for cycling he has also not yet appointed a successor to the highly successful first cycling commissioner for london andrew gilligan caroline russell green london assembly member has reported that this job which is to be re badged as cycling and walking commissioner is to be advertised soon i am worried about this the cycling commissioner post that gilligan occupied under johnson was a political post as it needed to be the job was not advertised because it needed to go to a political ally of the mayor for the role to be effectively accomplished in gilligan an ally of johnson and indeed a friend political heft was combined with diplomatic capability and a great deal of knowledge about cycling in london with a recognition of it as being generally dreadful and a determination to knock political and bureaucratic heads together in order to change things a journalist and thus an expert at publicity or propaganda gilligan was not a technical expert but understood enough technicalities to challenge experts when they stood in the way of progress and was able to work with campaigners if not always in complete harmony then with a constructive friction a kind of double agent if you will advertising the post of cycling and walking commissioner suggests it is to be be downgraded to a technical role a technician is likely to be ineffective in this highly political position but we will have to see i hope my worries on this are unfounded they could be with someone who is an expert in the post of commissioner but a strong driving force from the mayor and deputy mayor for transport i suppose gilligan could re apply for the job he is clearly the most qualified person to do it his report on the progress of the first three years of the mayor s vision for cycling human streets is worth a read while the segregated superhighways have been the massive success we knew they would be they are still far from where most londoners live and work they only represent the bare beginnings of a functioning cycle network it would be a crime for momentum to be lost and for the the expertise now built up within transport for london in building high quality effective cycle infrastructure to be dissipated which is what will occur if we do not rapidly have ...