Hi everyone. Been a while since I popped in... hope everyone's well!
Over the last 10 years I've watched the speed limit on the Westway drop step-by-step from 70mph down to a soul-crushing average-limit-enforced 30 mph. It's a right bore on a motorbike. But its not as boring as pedalling amongst the melee of traffic lights, taxis, buses, scooters and camera-wielding tourists on the parallel route down Bayswater Road, which I sometimes use if I want to stop in central london on my commute from Ealing to Bexleyheath.
While clearly the junction with the A3220 has very much been built for the car, I don't actually see any "unsuitable for cyclists" signs on Google street view. And with the average speed check along the whole section to Paddington, I'd actually feel pretty comfortable pedalling along there.
Does anybody else ride it with any regularity? If so, how much abuse do you get from drivers who wrongly believe it's a motorway, and would you recommend it as a decent alternative to the congested streets underneath more generally?
Over the last 10 years I've watched the speed limit on the Westway drop step-by-step from 70mph down to a soul-crushing average-limit-enforced 30 mph. It's a right bore on a motorbike. But its not as boring as pedalling amongst the melee of traffic lights, taxis, buses, scooters and camera-wielding tourists on the parallel route down Bayswater Road, which I sometimes use if I want to stop in central london on my commute from Ealing to Bexleyheath.
While clearly the junction with the A3220 has very much been built for the car, I don't actually see any "unsuitable for cyclists" signs on Google street view. And with the average speed check along the whole section to Paddington, I'd actually feel pretty comfortable pedalling along there.
Does anybody else ride it with any regularity? If so, how much abuse do you get from drivers who wrongly believe it's a motorway, and would you recommend it as a decent alternative to the congested streets underneath more generally?