The 18-mile east-west superhighway will stretch from Barking to Acton
and give protection to cyclists along some of central London’s busiest
roads.
Riders will have a dedicated, two-way kerb-segregated track on major thoroughfares including the Victoria Embankment, Parliament Square and the Westway flyover.
Extra space will be made for cyclists by removing road lanes, parking and loading bays. “Island” strips along the Embankment and other routes will separate cyclists from vehicles and double as drop-off points for taxis, buses and coaches.
Plans: the road along Victoria Embankment is set to be transformed (Picture: PA)
Work on the Tower Hill to Paddington section will start early next year
and the superhighway is due to be completed shortly before the mayor
leaves office in spring 2016.
A new north-south route from Elephant & Castle to King’s Cross will be completed at the same time, forming a crossroads with the east-west route at Blackfriars.
Both schemes will link to existing cycle superhighways to extend the network of safer routes across the city. The total cost for the two will be in the low tens of millions.
Protected cycle routes will also be created through dangerous junctions, including Tower Hill, Blackfriars, Parliament Square and Lancaster Gate.
Planners have gone to extraordinary lengths to create an uninterrupted track for cyclists, even installing a stretch of superhighway which can be removed when the streets near Buckingham Palace are needed for state occasions.
Mr Johnson, the Mayor of London, said: “Bikes already make up 24 per cent of all rush-hour traffic in central London — hundreds of thousands of journeys every day that would otherwise be made by car or public transport. Getting more people on to their bikes will reduce pressure on the road, bus and rail networks, cut pollution and improve life for everyone, whether or not they cycle themselves.”
Changes: Blackfriars junction (Picture: PA)
Motorists have been warned there will be longer journey times on or near
the routes of both cycle tracks as more space is dedicated to riders.
Transport chiefs will use the controversial gating technique introduced
during the Olympics to phase traffic lights to divert drivers away from
cycle routes as they approach London from Essex and Berkshire.
Andrew Gilligan, the mayor’s cycling commissioner, said: “It involves managing the capacity of roads a long way out from this scheme. We made a decision to maintain the capacity of the inner ring road that will take more of the traffic that passes through the heart of central London.”
The need for better cycle lanes was highlighted last year following a spate of fatalities, including several on the first generation of blue superhighways. Coroners have criticised these non-segregated routes — the most notorious of which are being upgraded — for giving riders a false sense of security.
Riders will have a dedicated, two-way kerb-segregated track on major thoroughfares including the Victoria Embankment, Parliament Square and the Westway flyover.
Extra space will be made for cyclists by removing road lanes, parking and loading bays. “Island” strips along the Embankment and other routes will separate cyclists from vehicles and double as drop-off points for taxis, buses and coaches.
Plans: the road along Victoria Embankment is set to be transformed (Picture: PA)
Work on the Tower Hill to Paddington section will start early next year
and the superhighway is due to be completed shortly before the mayor
leaves office in spring 2016.A new north-south route from Elephant & Castle to King’s Cross will be completed at the same time, forming a crossroads with the east-west route at Blackfriars.
Both schemes will link to existing cycle superhighways to extend the network of safer routes across the city. The total cost for the two will be in the low tens of millions.
Protected cycle routes will also be created through dangerous junctions, including Tower Hill, Blackfriars, Parliament Square and Lancaster Gate.
Planners have gone to extraordinary lengths to create an uninterrupted track for cyclists, even installing a stretch of superhighway which can be removed when the streets near Buckingham Palace are needed for state occasions.
Mr Johnson, the Mayor of London, said: “Bikes already make up 24 per cent of all rush-hour traffic in central London — hundreds of thousands of journeys every day that would otherwise be made by car or public transport. Getting more people on to their bikes will reduce pressure on the road, bus and rail networks, cut pollution and improve life for everyone, whether or not they cycle themselves.”
Changes: Blackfriars junction (Picture: PA)
Motorists have been warned there will be longer journey times on or near
the routes of both cycle tracks as more space is dedicated to riders.
Transport chiefs will use the controversial gating technique introduced
during the Olympics to phase traffic lights to divert drivers away from
cycle routes as they approach London from Essex and Berkshire.Andrew Gilligan, the mayor’s cycling commissioner, said: “It involves managing the capacity of roads a long way out from this scheme. We made a decision to maintain the capacity of the inner ring road that will take more of the traffic that passes through the heart of central London.”
The need for better cycle lanes was highlighted last year following a spate of fatalities, including several on the first generation of blue superhighways. Coroners have criticised these non-segregated routes — the most notorious of which are being upgraded — for giving riders a false sense of security.
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