🚲 An incredible new way to cycle from Waterloo to Woolwich 

Another brilliant video. Some cyclists can sometimes lack the confidence to tackle these routes but you are showing how accessible many places in the capital have become. And of course the more people that use these routes, the better they will become.

A no-cycling sign with a line through it is a 'no no-cycling' sign to the best of my knowledge. 😁

Great video as always!! It's always really nice to see improvements to cycling infrastructure in London, and that bit along C4 really shows how a busy, wide road can easily be made much more pleasant by building a cycle lane. I wish more councils would follow suit (cough cough RBK&C).

This is my every day cycle route up to Greenwich park and i love it although i do get a little freaked out when other cyclists try to overtake me on some of the tighter turns but its better than riding through the Old Kent road New cross and Deptford . All the Best New subscriber

Probably my favourite video on this channel so far. Cycling infrastructure has come far in London and it still has a long way to go 😀

*Nice to see a Looot of the route bein dedicated bike lanes!* 🤙🏽🤟🏽🤙🏽

"If you've made it this far"...lol...it's not the length of the video, it's all the *incredibly fascinating* parts of the south docks that would have me stopping every few minutes, just to gaze and digest. I opened Google map just to get a satellite view of the area the route goes through. It offers a perspective a vid alone can't capture. Angerstein's Wharf and area, although 'the pits' for many, is intriguing to me. Other than the few scary spots with on-road traffic, I absolutely loved this.

28:03 - SALT Woolwich looks delightful; many thanks! 🙏🏽

Thank you for your pedals!! I like your routes!!!!! If your pedals crossed paths with Canary Wurf, it would be fabulous!! Isle of Dogs isn't bad either, especially at Christmas. I still intend to make you wealthy!!!

What a lovely day.

Green or Blue should probably only be used for New Bike Lane surfacing, and not red since many initial bus lanes were painted red which could in theory cause confusion. I believe green was only used in London on painted bike paths up until the Barclay's sponsorship of the Superhighways scheme although I might be wrong.

Just rode this: thanks! If you like 'Industrial Thames' I'd like to recommend riding under the Dartford Crossing (south side path) to Swanscombe Marshes, then take the Gravesend to Tilbury Ferry (it takes four bikes and is the BEST way to cross the Thames). Then ride around Tilbury Fort, along the river path to Coalhouse Fort. It's a bit of an adventure, and I appreciate too far from Central for your series, but it is an eye-opener. Keep up the good work. Watching your videos also gives me a chance to 'look around' and see what I am missing when I am concentrating on the road. And I endeavour to follow your example of being calm and courteous at all times. Have a revolutionary weekend!

I have cycled this identical route both ways a few times in recent months, with the exception of the first couple of hundred yards up to Union St, and yet watched the entire thing, rapt. I think that's a good review!

I do think that there should be a stricter set of national guidelines for building cycle lanes just as there is for roads, including the fact that every bike lane should be painted green, everywhere, with the only exception being if it spoils the visual charm of a street in whatever way. Here in Manchester some of the more recent ones are green and I feel the clash of colours is a psychological tactic to discourage pedestrians from walking all over them. It's so simple yet there is still so much inconsistency about bike lane planning in the UK!

I might ride this next week. I'm very familiar with Woolwich to Greenwich, I ride cycle routes 136, route 13, cut down to Gallions Reach to North Woolwich and cross via the foot tunnel and then hug the Thames Path even round Greenwich Peninsula. I normally stop at the Cutty Sark but I want to ride the new Jamaica Rd lanes and this will fit nicely. Thanks You can takes bikes onto the ferry but you have to stand on deck in little siding with it. The ferry is short but fun to do.

Great video! You should try the Woolich ferry. Its the nicest way to cross the Thames East of Tower Bridge. Check it is running. If it isn't, there is a foot tunnel or you could use the DLR between Woolich DLR and King George V during off peak. The Elizabeth line also allows bikes off peak. The first station is Custom House. Further west the cable car allows up to two bikes per car and is free before 9:30 am. My grandkids love it, even iif it only to speculate on what happens if our car falls!!😁 Shame they are not going to allow bikes to use the new Silvertown Crossing to the Greenwich peninsula. We need a dedicated bicycle tunnel that is e-bike safe!!

Fabulous video. I've done the bit along the Thames and you show it well. One useful thing for people to know is the Woolwich Ferry is FREE! As for No1 Street, you could do a video from No1 St to the house called No 1 London at Hyde Park!

never knew about that other C4 section!

I prefer the red colour on the lanes - wouldn't it be nice if all cities were like Milton Keynes!

Great weather!

Could you do Upton Park to Euston please? These are very useful, thank you.

Cool video, thanks for making!! The giant Environment Agency roundel might be a later addition as EA was founded in 1996 and the barrier was completed by Greater London Council (and originally had big GLC logos on the piers) back in 1984. After GLC was abolished it eventually became EA's responsibility... and maybe had a 'rebrand'? 🌊

Great video! You’ve basically covered my exact commute! Can’t wait until they finish cycle way 4 though as I find the Thames path parts of this route to be pretty slow

Riverside path at the naval collage leads straight to a pub thats very busy all the time inc the outside seating area even more so at night as is the 4 foot wide path its self. Its way too busy for cycling any time b4 12.30am after the pub has shut & people have had time to disperse u have to take the main road round it & take the 1st left then 1st right on to old Woolwich Rd. Good u inc the closing of the gate at night this time. Try Erith train station to Vauxhall

I think you’ve mentioned it before but at 15:32 you pass Greenwich London Underground power station, used as an emergency source should there be a big grid failure, provides enough power to safely evacuate the tube (fire systems, minimal,lighting etc) not enough to run trains though. I think they also have an arrange,ent with National Grid to supplement the normal supply where required. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenwich_Power_Station

Whoaaa @9:10. I'd get off and walk when approaching that until clear of it the other side. Someone is going to get whacked big time there sooner or later, and I'd rather it not be me. Superlative route otherwise so far 1/3 in.

That's a great summer ride along the river. I wonder if there's something similar on the other side?

What a great video well done you😎

Perhaps you could compare and contrast the same route but using Cycleway 10? What would the compromises be / the opportunities / the different sights?

Very enjoyable route. Inspired, I cycled out east from the City earlier this week and then caught the ferry and completed the route west of the south terminal. You get great views of the Thames Barrier and Canary Wharf as you cross the river -- and they are possibly even better in the morning when they will be lit by the rising sun. Generally the north side of the route was good, although C3 is busy along Poplar High Street. Navigating the roundabout east of the Lea Crossing was also bit confusing because of the amount of Silvertown Crossing works. However, it looks as though some pretty good cycling infrastructure is being built on the Silvertown Way and North Woolwich Road -- maybe this could be a route to look at for the future for people either commuting to / from Woolwich / North Woolwich or even to and from City airport.

27:23 You’re correct its called No 1 Street because of its military past. Several of the residential buildings in the complex are also numbered, eg Building 22, Building 50, etc.

better voice over recording mate nice one!😇hope you found those blankets for the sound!

I'm really happy to see this route! I've done it a few times but I can never figure out where to go once C4 ends. I always end up on some random main road. I'll definitely be using this route to get to IKEA and the other shops as you come off the motorway bridge.

thanks for this, I recently did a similar route into work, only from Abbey Wood, it's still a bit sketchy around Plumsted but choosing side streets made it manageable.

Thanks for another great video. After coming through the old navel collage at Greenwich and going down Old Woolwich Rd, I’d be inclined to take a left down Merchants Row, back to the river. Here you pass the Cutty Sark pub (another great one for a pint) and you pick up the Thames Path at the end of Ballast Quay. It’ll take you around the peninsula but it’s traffic free.

Another great route & video, thanks!! 👍

I have cycled every bit shown in this video, though rarely at the same time. I have mentioned Surrey Quay section of C4 being the slow section due to the traffic light sequencing, in your other videos. I ignore the unofficial 'no no cycling' signs on the path next to the recently completed estate in Greenwich. The path was there long before the estate was expanded. I also vary my route using C10. I like to mix and match. Nice video. 👍🏾

22:00 There is something nice about cycling alongside rivers. Maybe it's the views or just in general something different to buildings that surround us in the city. Or maybe it's calming in some ways?

I cycled around London for the first time checking out a bunch of your routes the other day and absolutely loved it! Do you think you could try a route from Chalk Farm area to Islington?

Hi, love your videos . I am a keen cycle commuter myself living in wales. I just wandered what sort of bike you do your rides on [ I’m guessing road bike]. Also , what would be more practical , clipped in pedals or flat pedals for cycling around London Thanks 👍

An interesting option to go towards the Thames. I go through Greenwich town centre which isn’t the most pleasant part but it’s not very long. I was on the busy supposedly protected cycle lane on Trafalgar Road yesterday when I was passed by a motorbike doing about 40mph. I don’t have a camera but it was busy with cyclists at the time and I’m hoping that one of them has footage that they’ll pass on to the police.

Could you add a tiny map of the route as you travel along please?

When it comes to the colour of cycle lanes, I think that there should be UK-wide standard colours for road surfaces in the highway code (and that these should be complied with, when things are rebuilt). Red has been used for bus lanes, well before I saw it on cycle lanes. So, in the mind of pedestrians, as well as motorists, they might not pick it up as a visual cue for cycles coming. So I would suggest that red is avoided for future cycle paths. If Boris Johnson picked blue, because of Barclays Bank, that's pretty shameful. This sort of thing should be done via studies to work out which colours are best for visual attention. And I've heard of a couple of blue-surfaced roads that were slippery and caused accidents (even fatal ones). That actually makes me a bit wary of blue surfaces myself. That's not to say that blue should not be used, but from a UK-wide point of view, we should probably base a decision on a study of the colours of the existing cycle lanes and go with the most common colour, that is not used in bus lanes. Blue is also used for motorway signs. I don't know what the lady that designed our motorway signs would have to say about using that colour for traffic-calmed cycle routes. But that sort of thing needs to be taken into consideration. Green seems a good colour. People associate that with environmentally friendly things, so that may well be be a good colour to go with, especially if it is used outside of London. I've heard that some bus lanes are open to cyclists, while others are not (contra-flow bus lanes, IIRC). So I think that it might be worth having two colour-schemess for bus lanes. Having said that, the problem could be solved another way by putting a contra-flow cycle lane next to a contra-flow bus lane, as much as possible. And that would be preferable to "no cycling this way" markings. I agree with you totally, on the box junction thing. I would go further than that and say there should be a new sign, similar in some ways to a level crossing sign, that warns drivers that a junction is a protected cycle crossway. I've watched several of your videos and the way that some of the two-way protected cycleways swaps from the left side of the road to the right side of the road sometimes takes me by surprise. So I think I would be get lost a few times, if I got another bike. I think that motorists, who have not been back to an area for several years, may have no idea that there is going to be a flow of cyclists from right to left...or from left to right. So maybe a sign coming up to the traffic lights that shows cars and bikes swapping sides or something similar to that. If the box junctions for protected cycle crossways were marked differently to the box junctions that let cars out of junctions, we could have larger fines for people who drive into the cycle box junction and put cyclists at risk. After all a car hitting another car in box junction causes financial loss, while a car causing a cyclist to get hit can cause life-changing injuries in the cyclist. Finally, I do agree with you on the street furniture in cycle lanes thing. It is difficult to move lamp-posts, as they are wired up to the electrical grid, but if a lamp post can not be moved, the cycle lane should split and go both sides of it and recombine on the other side. (And then the cycle lane can be simplified later, when the lamp post next needs to be swapped out.) I really did not like those big round silver bollards, near the environmental agency. They are probably there to stop "ram raider" style attacks, that might knock out a smaller bollard, but I don't think it is good to have things like that that can hit handlebars. Modal filters are supposed to prevent vehicles other than bikes passing through. I don't think they should be designed in a way that can cause a cyclist to smack their handlebars on them. Those things should be lower in the ground.

Could you do Shadwell to Brockley?

Please do Hackney Wick to Carnaby Street/soho ❤❤

Doesn't the Woolwich Foot Tunnel warrant a mention? ☺

Blue 💙 cycle superhighways need to be blue. It's calming. Red = danger. Green= go. Neither are appropriate. Blue is a neutral and a joy to cycle on - I ❤ by the Tate or maybe it's just getting out of Chelsea and reaching a cycle path. That park is proper dodgy. Those fake signs need spraying before they start fining people x

What camera do you use to record these videos? The picture is so clear.

I do wish pedestrians would stay out of the cycle lanes. (I'm not counting the bit where the pavement was closed)

Have you ever done a 'Ride London' or even the 'London Naked Bike Ride' before?