This is an example of how you end up with areas of London with a higher percentage of people driving as a result of the public transport options being a bit disjointed. Hopefully good safe cycle routes like this will encourage more people to get out of their cars.
Unfortunately, there is a chance now Susan Hall will make this channel a lot harder to make. It's a shame cycling is getting so much safer in London but we might now have a mayor who will reverse so much of the gains.
@@EtonMessUK yes, it’s so depressing. I cycled down Hyde park cycle lane today, which I know is one of her first targets to rip out. There were other cyclists using it and it felt so great to be in safety on that busy road. The motor traffic was also free flowing despite what she claims. It would not only be sad to see lanes like that taken out, it will likely cost more cyclists lives over the next 5 years.
Parts of outer London are absolutely quicker on bike due to the lack of transport links. Most of central London is quicker on bike because of traffic and congestion. Its though fiddley areas between zones 2-4 that are quicker on public transport usually.
Yeah I find it’s usually about the same- some places the train is way quicker eg a Victoria line station to another, or if you’re lucky to live on a fast national rail route and show up at the right time
@7:07 this is where you go from LB Hounslow (with their fancy side road crossings) to LB H&F (with their cheap and nasty side road crossings) ! There's a couple of side road with lovely old huge trees which make it hard for drivers to see cyclists - so take special care with those junctions.
Thames Water road works - at least that shows a commitment to solving an issue. In Kent, 12 months on from a chalk cliff collapse we have a main road closed; diverted traffic; neighbourhoods blighted by traffic noise, tailbacks and road rage; years of litigation ahead; no local or central government funding identified for the remedial works; businesses laying off staff; protracted negotiations for Kent CC engineers to access the neighbouring land just to assess the current position; and no prospect of the road re-opening any time soon.
FYI there is a cycle crossing planned from C49 to C9 but it will be further east from where you crossed at Fishers Lane and will be at Windmill Rd. A formal crossing at Fishers Lane wasn’t practical because of the bus stop, plus Fishers Lane is one way at the junction as you mention. It will be the same route except taking a left from Fishers Lane to Chiswick Common Rd for Windmill Rd.
Thanks that’s helpful! I think the C49 route is already signposted along the common - it makes sense going this direction but turning right towards Kew Bridge it’s a detour so I wish they’d just contraflow this way!
After entering Southfield Recreation Ground, it is quicker to turn left and cross Southfield Road into Bonheur Road. Then left into Brookfield Road. At end turn right into The Avenue, second left into Whellock Road and then into Abinger Road. Where Abinger Road meets Bath Road turn left and then right into Prebend Gardens to rejoin the Chiswick High Road.
7:43 perfect timing! Thoroughly enjoyed this one also. I think you should do a separate tutorial video on GoPro settings because, as a GoPro newbie, my Hero 12 videos are somehow not as good as yours 😞.
I had the time stamp on my clipboard to comment on the exact same incident. I was drifting off, imagining myself cycling in London again, and being amazed at the changes, and how good things look, irrespective of the ongoing political and social turmoil, and got jolted alert with that. As safe as the routes have become in spots, you can't make them idiot-proof. That being said, I constantly view this channel with an eye to how my reflexes would handle being on the left hand side of the road (I'm North Am raised)
If you notice on both ends of Hammersmith bridge there's now security guards ( you can see them in your video ) they're there to stop delivery mopeds trying to cross the bridge.
@@Londoncycleroutes We saw them the other day and stopped to ask. Pretty much doing a similar route to the one you posted but back to Portobello road on the way back.
[ they're there to stop delivery mopeds trying to cross the bridge.] That's a pretty universal (in the Western World at least) issue. And it affects cyclists in many ways, none good. Not only are they a danger to motorists and pedestrians, they're a huge danger to cyclists due to their disregard for protocol, let alone common sense. This is a whole topic in and of itself, not least as many push-cyclists are grouped in with them by the larger public which fails to realise they're 'not one of us'.
Also I made a note of where the most collisions happen in this area and on CS9 it’s the junction of CHR and Duke Road, CHR and Brackley Road and King St and Weltje Road. Be careful folks. Lot of cars just completely ignore the cycle lane
Thank you so much for your work! Long time watcher but only starting to get out on some of these routes now the weather is (kind of) getting better! Any thoughts on The Green Link Walk ?
I just reviewed using your timestamp. Just viewing the lay of the intersection when approaching it in this vid, the sixth-sense tingles. I'm old-school, albeit an avid and very fit cyclist, and think it's beyond folly to go through any red lights w/o at least slowing to a crawl if one does insist on doing it.
Its mad that you mention the map here because i was just thinking about how useful it would be to have one about 20 minutes ago before i sat down and saw this video, how long has that been around?
I used to have a bike, when I was a kid and then the roads started to get more and more dangerous and I really thought that cycling, as a thing, was becoming a thing that would radically reduce the lifespan of cyclists. Seeing these videos makes me realise that there are large parts of London, where that is being reversed. I think the next big threat to cyclists (over and above being struck and injured or killed by motorists) is the damage caused by breathing in tail pipe emissions. And the expansion of the ULEZ is starting to deal with that, by pushing motorists to reduce the use of the most polluting vehicles in London. It is however, a real shame that lobbyists are trying to push back against the ULEZ and remove the right of the people of London to have clean air. I do hope that the people of London elect a new Mayor who commits to retaining the ULEZ, as well as committing to continue to push local councils into expanding their cycling networks. I also hope that we can move towards a future where there is much better signage for the sort of routes that you show. I have, in the past, used bus shelter maps to navigate around parts of London by foot. I don't think there is anything in place that allows non-local cyclists to figure out the sort of routes you take. Your routes are awesome, but they are also not necessarily intuitive.
@@Londoncycleroutes I'll project that one step further: Most routes suggested by Google would be unsuitable for 'safe and pleasant' cycling by being optimised for motor vehicles, not bikes. Not only that, there will be short cuts available to bikes that aren't to cars. And thank God for that!
Yep on castlenau this is definitely true - I guess the (on paper) uncertainty over the bridge’s long term future (eg will it ever reopen to cars) prevents any decision on there
the south bound cycle lane on Castlenau is really quite narrow in places - even for me on a standard bike the cycle lane isn't wide enough for cargo bikes - they will need to use the (not very busy) main lane
