You can cycle from Walthamstow in north London to Wanstead in north east central London, entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 4.8km long (3 miles) and makes use of the Walthamstow Village LTN, protected cycle lanes on Lea Bridge Road and the Green Man Interchange cycle paths.
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You can see a digital map of the route and download a GPS/GPX file to use on whatever device or app you want here:
https://www.komoot.com/tour/1740308429?share_token=a5x4dWuuHkHLep1OLzBbFNzUqAbHJl0KODuBJeudsxeeT4ZAb0&ref=wtd
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I also highly recommend the Safe Cycle London map for route planning, which is compiled by @SafeCycleLDN on twitter:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1XlpvN9R-Wg7qZHyezO8y-eVlftr4e0WX&hl=en&ll=0%2C0&z=12
10 Comments
Can you do longer trips? Love them and they inspire me to cycle that route
Hi, weirdly enough I had someone shout at me a week ago while cycling on that shared path. So even though there are so many signs, some people just don't notice. I use that path regularly and you are right that there are never that many people walking on it – most prefer to go into the green space to it's side.
Great video! Obligatory shout out to Waltham Forest for showing what can be done in an Outer London borough!
Nice to see you back in this area. You were lucky there was no car outside the door shop on Lea Bridge Road. They block the cycle lane a lot and no one cares.
6:25 — Good old Central Line! 🔴
(Connecting West to East in the oven 😂)
Therapeutic, as always! Many thanks for that.
That's a pretty nice route. No bits where you are close to falling into a canal and drowning.
It's a shame that they have a smaller shared path in the middle bit, when you have a big road on one side and empty green land on the other side, and it would be relatively easy to increase the width of the land used for bikes and pedestrians.
Excellent, thank you. I’ll do this route the next time I stay in Wanstead.
Good point about road budgets being able to easily cover budgets of interventions that money ringfenced for active travel never could. Building a bridge or an underpass to keep pedestrians and cyclists out of the way of the cars seems like it's easier to justify when it's about keeping the cars moving, and not about improving the experience for people on foot or bike.
Do you plan to do the new Cycleway 42 and maybe combine it with 43 too?
Barking and Iford, I know there shitholes but you won't be stopping and will never have to return.
😆