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Depends what part of London you’re in. Unfortunately cycle infrastructure is mostly managed by the local boroughs, who all have very different views on cycling.
by avianlyric 4y ago
Depends what part of London you’re in. Unfortunately cycle infrastructure is mostly managed by the local boroughs, who all have very different views on cycling.
Westminster and Kensington are famously hateful of cyclist, and do every they can to avoid building anything but the most pathetic cycle infrastructure.
However boroughs like Southwark are far not forward thinking. My area is covered in wide dedicated cycle lanes. I can get from my home to the office on almost entirely grade separated and wide cycle lanes. The only fly in the ointment is that my office is in Westminster, the second I cross the borough boundary, it all goes to crap.
- ch4s3 4y agoI biked in Kensington, SoHo, and City of London. They were all unpleasant in different but noticeable ways. Old narrow roundabouts were especially scary in the bike. The bus lanes were nice though.
- avianlyric 4y agoYeah, most of the cycle infrastructure north of the river isn’t great. South is substantially better, the difference is stark. Thankfully it’s getting better north of the river, but a lot of that infrastructure was built before TfL realised that half-arsed infrastructure just doesn’t work. You either need to build proper infrastructure, or just not bother. Thankfully those lessons have been applied to the new infrastructure that being built, include all the stuff south of the river which is more recent.