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Hackney Town Hall (licensed CC BY SA 2.5 on Wikimedia Commons by Tarquin Binary)TfL consults on segregated Cycleway from Hackney to the Isle of Dogs
Transport for London (TfL) has launched a public consultation on a new segregated cycle route linking Hackney with the Isle of Dogs. The proposed 7.5km route – which would feature 5.6km of segregated cycle lanes – is the first branded “Cycleway” project to be consulted on from TfL’s Strategic Cycling Analysis, which identified the 25 areas with the best potential for increasing cycling numbers.
The new Cycleway would link with Quietway 2, Cycle Superhighway 2 and Cycle Superhighway 3, as well as the Bow Liveable Neighbourhood scheme. TfL and Tower Hamlets will consult separately on the section relating to the last of those.
The route is also proposed to continue onto the Greenwich foot tunnel via Canary Wharf. Again, this section of the route will be consulted on at a later date.
London’s Walking and Cycling Commissioner, Will Norman, said: “These exciting plans not only include a new high-quality cycle route connecting the busy streets of Hackney and the Isle of Dogs, but include a raft of improvements that will make the local area cleaner, safer, and more welcoming to get around on foot. I encourage anyone living or working in the area to look at the plans and give us their views.”
Simon Munk, Infrastructure Campaigner at the London Cycling Campaign, said: “Today, the Mayor takes another step to fulfilling his pledge to the LCC to triple the mileage of protected space on main roads. This route will mean far more people will be able to cycle between Hackney, Canary Wharf and beyond via the planned bridge to Rotherhithe, connecting from Walthamstow to Woolwich.
“To cut air pollution, tackle climate change and create a healthier city it is vital everyone – residents, landowners and local stakeholders – work together to ensure this route is high-quality and goes where people want to, from key employment centres to schools and shops.”
Councillor Feryal Demirci, Deputy Mayor of Hackney, said: "In Hackney, more people than any other London borough commute to work by bike, but we want to make cycling as accessible as possible for everyone. This proposed cycle route linking Hackney to Mile End and Canary Wharf would mean more people can start to cycle for all or part of their journey. I'd urge people to have their say on the proposals."
You can have your say before June 21 at tfl.gov.uk/cycleway
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Why is that man carrying his bicycle?
And neither of those bicycles appear to be locked up, in London.
he’s on a footpath, it would be illegal to cycle.
there is no crime in Artist’s Impressionland.
So have a bidirectional lane that is narrower than one 'motor' lane. There's not enough width there for safe bi-directional cycling for all types. This is one of the many reasons why people won't cycle on lanes. If you have a parent and child cycling to school on that, or even a bunch of them, how is a faster commter/utility or even leisure cyclist going to get past without having to impinge on other cyclists coming from the other direction wanting to do the same thing? Ah, you want them to slow down every few seconds you mean which utterly defeats the object and is far more work/time than simply going on the road.
Look at that road, one single lane is wider than that cycle lane, this is NOT what people want, that shit should be binned off, take one half of that road making it one way and use the rest for a wide cycle lane, a single cycle lane should be 1.8m wide, that should mean this bi-directional lane should be over 3metres wide, but it's nowhere near that!
As for using the Greenwhich foot tunnel, yeah okay, you get enough aggro going through there as it is, it's a pain in the arse to get in/out at either end so unless they are going to build an easy exit/entrance plus join it up far better than what is currently there (which isn't much and zig zags around peds) then it'll be a non starter.
Wot he said!
Linking up with the foot tunnel, great.
How about they link it up with the Rotherhithe foot/bike bridge that was proposed years ago now and STILL hasn't been built despite it being desperately needed?
The second section to the foot tunnel is not being consulted on yet, because they're waiting until the new Rotherhithe bridge is consulted on, so the routes can link up properly.
The second section to the foot tunnel is not being consulted on yet, because they're waiting until the new Rotherhithe bridge is consulted on, so the routes can link up properly.