I used to ride this section everyday until i left the park. it used to be a better layout but to assist the 'lympics the layour has been changed several times in the last 2 years. the current layout has removed the cycle lane from the the road and tried to force cyclists onto a shared path which forces you to cross 2 sliproads , one on and one off the A12. then crossing Homerton Rd junction. I spoke to somebody in hackney council cycle team 12 months ago and was fobbed off with its down to the ODA , so I wrote to Hackney council cycling team just before the layout was changed for games mode asking why the cycle lanes were removed. I haven't had a response yet and i have a feeling i won't now.
its a tragedy that should not have happened for several reasons now i have read reports , the one on road CC was fairly traumatic.
RIP
I ride that way a lot, too. I gave up for months, fed up of the HGVs working on the Olympic Park. I started using Stratford>Bow but binned it after the two fatalities last autumn and commuted by scooter instead. I used to be a militant cycling evangelist but I've got a little lad to think about now. I went back to using Ruckholt when the pedestrian/cycle bridge opened, thinking if they'd built that, then the infrastructure for cyclists must have improved. Sustainable Olympics, innit.
Well, no. It's much worse than before. Subaqua's description nails it. Also worth mentioning is that the shared paths are covered in fine gravel. It's just an appalling place to cycle. There is absolutely no way that a cyclist was consulted in the planning phase.
Risk is something everyone has to accept when you ride a bike. Fair enough. But there is no East/West route that could be considered remotely safe. It really does boil my p*ss that cyclists are just expected to accept that and get on with it. When is that going to change?
