Cycle Super-Highways

[Lurker]

In principle, I do not want any CSH cycle lanes within a bus lane as it has the potential to corall cyclists unnecessarily. I'd rather have 3 medium sized bike sharrows in the bus lane - one to the left, one in the centre, and one to the right....

Fair point. They do seem determined to have blue paint though....

 

[Origamist]

Fair point. They do seem determined to have blue paint though....

Middle sky blue, I believe.

I've just found out that the roll out date has been pushed back to the summer of 2010 for the two pilot CSHs. I imagine this is due to implementation issues after consulting with the boroughs/stakeholders concerned...

 

[marinyork]

Well I'm interested, I might use the Cycle superhighway 10 if it ever gets built painted. Not a big deal though I didn't really have many problems cycling through that bit of London as a newbie apart from what I later found out was called the Hanger Lane Gyratory which I found out even later than that has a cycle path to bypass it and the start of CS10 nearby somewhere called Park Royal.

 

[gaz]

Nothing from croydon? plenty of cyclists use the a23 everyday.. admidtidly the further you get away from london the less you see. but who is going to cycle from heathrow to london?

 

[Origamist]

Nothing from croydon? plenty of cyclists use the a23 everyday.. admidtidly the further you get away from london the less you see. but who is going to cycle from heathrow to london?

CSH 6 goes from Penge to the City - so not too far from Croydon.

Map here: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/Cycling/cycle-superhighways-map-170909.pdf

 

[StuartG]

Left hand/right hand ... TfL are currently financing a new improvement scheme that covers part of CS6 in the next year. If CS6 does go ahead by 2015 TfL will have to pay for these improvements to be undone as they are incompatible with the CS approach. I think I've now got both sides of TfL talking to each other ... although the compromise might be no improvement and no CS6 (or it gets diverted elsewhere). I would like to hear from anyone with special interest in the southern end of CS6.

 

[gaz]

CSH 6 goes from Penge to the City - so not too far from Croydon.

Map here: http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/Cycling/cycle-superhighways-map-170909.pdf

but that is going to take you over crystal palace... i don't like hills

I'll use part of 7 of my commute, and i can't really complain about most of my route on the A23.

 

[StuartG]

but that is going to take you over crystal palace... i don't like hills

Nope - from Croydon you would skirt round to the east passed Selhurst/Norwood Junction to join at Penge. Fairy flat. Then a gentle canter up to Forest Hill which is actually a valley between two. The worst is Dog Kennel Lane a short sharp hillock to rhyme with with the locals ...

 

[chap]

Nothing from croydon? plenty of cyclists use the a23 everyday.. admidtidly the further you get away from london the less you see. but who is going to cycle from heathrow to london?

Funny you should mention that, interestingly enough I noticed that there is a very well thought out segregated cycle path which runs more or less the entire stretch of the A4 from Brentford to Heathrow.

I only noticed this because the M4 was closed, thus I was forced to use the diversion. I can tell you, each mile I progressed the more excited I became, when I got to the end my jaw was on the floor and I was notably very impressed.

It is interesting that the LCC have not lavished praises, in each instalment of their magazine, upon whoever designed that system.

Then again, they exist to serve their-selves.

 

[chap]

After some further research, I have found that the cycle facilities around Heathrow are even better than I had expected. As if it couldn't get any better the actual Airport has cycle facilities and information about arriving by bicycle!

It takes 90 minutes to get from Heathrow to Paddington by bike, and you can at least get into central London safely due to the segragated cycle path.

Heathrow Cycle Facilities Page

I seriously think I might start using this means to get there now.

 

[CopperBrompton]

Do you have details of the bike path by the A4? I just tried the TfL journey planner and it doesn't seem to know anything about it.

 

[chap]

Do you have details of the bike path by the A4? I just tried the TfL journey planner and it doesn't seem to know anything about it.

Alas the best I can do is point you towards that link I put in my initial post, Heathrow Airport make mention of the path, there is a pdf which contains the part of it from their bit.

The only issue would be the poor cycle facilities when one reached Hammersmith. Although there is apparently a canal which is open to walkers and cyclists called 'Grand Union'.

Best bet appears to be to cycle from Paddington.

• Heathrow cycle page
• Discussion about cycling safely to Heathrow
• Cyclechat discussion

 

[CopperBrompton]

I had a look, but it only showed the path immediately around LHR, and then points to the TfL Journey Planner for the rest. The latter just takes you there on roads.

 

[marinyork]

www.opencyclemap.org is incomplete but it might help. Very clearly shows where some bits of London stuff goes.

 

[chap]

I had a look, but it only showed the path immediately around LHR, and then points to the TfL Journey Planner for the rest. The latter just takes you there on roads.

I almost doubted it myself, I was seriously considering cycling it with GPS to put on MarinYork's OpenCycleMap.

The best I can do is provide this link, follow it up across Great West Road and you can see why it lives up to its name:

Google Map Street View on Great West Road
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