What is the quickest across London ?

[LLB]

This has been debated before, and even been done on Top Gear (sort of)

What mode of transport is the quickest commute during the rush hour ?

 

[LLB]

I will add that I was up in London on Saturday in a car, and on a Motorcycle a couple of weeks ago.

My moneys on this order

Motorcycle
Cycle
Tube
Taxi
Bus
Private Car

 

[Arch]

I gather than normally when it's done (as it often is in Bike Week in various cities), the bike wins - of course it helps if there are bike-only shortcuts and so on. Restricted to the road only, I'd imagine the bike and motorbike would be close - and the size (and therefore filterability) of the motorbike might make a difference.

oh, and whether it was rush hour - I assume that was the assumption, not 3am when the roads are really quiet...

 

[LLB]

Can't change the title, but rush hour traffic on any given weekday.

 

[Melvil]

Much as I'd like it to be bicycle, I reckon a decent motorbike would beat any of the others hands down.

 

[PrettyboyTim]

It depends a lot on where you're going to and from. My guess is that if you can get most of the way there by going on a single tube line, it'll be faster than pretty much anything else. If have to change a lot or take a rather roundabout route, it won't do as well.

 

[walker]

I'm going for tube. as long as its running on time.

 

[domtyler]

I can often make better time than motorbikes until we get through the worst of the traffic and then they come into their own.

 

[LLB]

How do scoots compare to cycles ?

 

[domtyler]

How do scoots compare to cycles ?

They can be very quick indeed, the problem, like for m/bikes, comes when the traffic is solid. That is when the cycle with its superior manoeuvrability and ability to slip through the smallest of gaps comes into its own.

 

[tdr1nka]

How do scoots compare to cycles ?

Only marginally less irritating to car drivers!

Motorbike is most probably the fastest overall.

 

[LLB]

I used to commute from south London to the City. Motorbike was easily the fastest then.

Was strange then that Top Gear didn't include them in the challenge

 

[Maz]

I was reading in the latest CTC mag that in central London at peak time the average car speed is 9.8 (or was it 9.3) mph.

 

[Disgruntled Goat]

I used to commute from south London to the City. Motorbike was easily the fastest then.

Are cyclists allowed to jump lights, ride down one-way streets and on pavements?

 

[mr Mag00]

i thought the average for a car in any city over its lifetime was 14mph average