OK, I thought only red on your map was closed. A link to it would really really help. If pink roads are also closed, go further north by turning right at Aldgate: go along London Wall (ugly tunnel but it has bike lanes) to the Museum, then the little cut through to Smithfield Market to CS6. It looks like CS6 may be open across Blackfriars Bridge (it was in previous years, which also used Blackfriars Underpass), then you could turn right onto NCN4 under Waterloo Bridge, with maybe you having to walk just the last bit through/past Jubilee Gardens but I rather suspect that might be a start funnel area anyway, or you could continue on CS6 to St George's Road / Lambeth Road and approach the area from the south. If CS6 isn't open over the top of CS3 or you want the Trafalgar Square area, then turn off back streets through the Fetter Lane area and Covent Garden and then it looks like pushing again.
Well reminded! As well as being published, I think there were big yellow letters and arrows hanging from lampposts and so on.
Just to be clear I'm not suggesting a trip through the tunnel which I have done and agree is the worst cycling experience I've had. Just stay south of the river heading East until you get to Greenwich.
I've cycled through the Rotherhithe tunnel. It's horrible. Years ago I walked through it (why the hell did I do that?) it was even more horrible. Everything is covered with a film of soot and the air is foul and polluted. I've also driven through it lots of times. That's just not very nice.
I think they used to close the Rotherhithe tunnel for Ride London when it started in the Lee Valley didn't they? Even if it was closed I wouldn't relish cycling through it. It would take more than a few hours closure to get rid of the polluted stink.
Get off your bike and wheel it through the Greenwich Foot Tunnel. That's quite an interesting experience. And not horrible.
. Pass swiftly through.
At the moment first service from Prince Regent DLR station is 07:05 into Tower Hill at 07:35.
There are a few nice historical bits near the river. It has the Brunel museum which is pretty good. There's a monument to the Mayflower in a churchyard. A nice pub whose name escapes me. But apart from that ... highly missable.Rotherhithe itself is just like Peckham (Del Boys home) on a very bad day
With four bridges closed, the south bank between Rotherhithe and Lambeth seems likely to be an utter cluster fark of whining motorists refusing to divert and causing jams, similar to the Vauxhall/Battersea area when the old London-Surrey route closed bridges further west. It will probably not be fast or fun cycling.
Oh cool. It's not like that stage had crashes that pretty much ended someone's racing career(!)
Let's hope spectators on the route have learned not to stand on the course to take photos, or at least that marshals stop them this time.
