from the City to Beckton

[dand_uk]

Just looking at Cable Street in Streetview. Can't imagine you make good progress on that cycle path, switching from one side of the road to the other and bumping up and down kerbs.

I think if I were to cycle the route I would take the A1203 The Highway, nice wide two lane road. Dunno how busy this is but surely it would have made more sense for the CS3 to go down this road?

Failing that - do away with the pavement cycle path, turn Cable Street into a normal width two way road but intersperse with narrowings that motor vehicles cannot pass through.

 

[gaz]

I think if I were to cycle the route I would take the A1203 The Highway, nice wide two lane road. Dunno how busy this is but surely it would have made more sense for the CS3 to go down this road?

The cycle superhighways are built on pre-existing cycle routes, bus lanes etc. This is keeps work to a minimum and it's normally on. Routes which are already popular. The cable street cycle route was already in place before it was painted blue.

 

[jefmcg]

Just looking at Cable Street in Streetview. Can't imagine you make good progress on that cycle path, switching from one side of the road to the other and bumping up and down kerbs.

I think if I were to cycle the route I would take the A1203 The Highway, nice wide two lane road. Dunno how busy this is but surely it would have made more sense for the CS3 to go down this road?

Failing that - do away with the pavement cycle path, turn Cable Street into a normal width two way road but intersperse with narrowings that motor vehicles cannot pass through.

One of my colleagues recommends the Highway, but it was too fast for me (40mph) and I was forced onto the footpath, and shame-faced, had to return to the blue path.

What you can't see from street view is the cyclists overtaking when there is a cyclist heading towards them, or the shrouded women leading their tiny children across the path without looking, or the all too common truck parked across the path, or the fact that parts were totally closed for several weeks in January while Thames Water dead their fearsome work.