You can cycle from Archway in north London to Tottenham Court Road in central London, entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 8.3km long (5.2 miles) and makes use of parts of the historic London Cycle Network 14 route as well as Cycleway 50 and the protected lanes on Tavistock Place.
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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:
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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
21 Comments
From Camden Sq/Agar Grove take Camley St (pedestrianised entrance at junction of Murray St and Agar Grove) to Midland Rd rather than Royal College St.
Barry White vibes!
Good vid
Another brilliant video! Thank you! I cycled the part from Camden Town past St Pancras last week for the first time and it was a really pleasant ride
Another great video!
Nice ride!
Well this is so funny: At Tavistock Square you are overtaken by a red jacketed man on a Cube bike. That's me! I was cycling from Kings Cross to Covent Garden yesterday morning. Thank you for my 15 seconds of fame!
Thanks for the video! Would be really handy to see Drayton Park station to Victoria Coach station please!
Thanks!
Great video as always. One slight route optimisation suggestion: After the crossing at St Pancras/Euston Road, I usually prefer to turn right immediately onto Bidborough St instead of later at Leigh Street. Bidborough St is a bit wider than Leigh St and practically traffic-free. Ok Cartwright Gardens isn't terribly wide either, so I guess road width is a toss-up, or is a point slightly in favour of Leigh St. Nevertheless, with Bidborough St, you have one less traffic light + zebra crossing to think about, so it's also marginally faster
i find getting the tube from Archway station to Tottenham Court Road station is a very quick trip and checking google maps it tells me it's 13 minutes on the Northern line direct! Nonetheless, the bike route is very much appreciated. Thanks for the videos!
@3:41 / 17:01 The chamfered curb to delineate between cycle and pedestrian space is an excellent way to separate the two most of the time, but to still leave the option in a tight or emergency situation to cross-over to avoid an incident. Ditto later when you commented on the chamfered concrete barriers, albeit you'd have to' use a much tighter angle of incidence to climb over them. Even if you did go down, at least the hard corners are missing when you impact.
Bedford Square is technically one-way with no cycle contra on the carriageway. Not sure if you missed that you're supposed to go left and along the funky-colored space on the square before rejoining at the end. Directional arrows are on the ground so wayfinding isn't ideal, although the space is wide enough it isn't usually an issue to avoid pedestrians.
Obviously no vehicles when you went down, but could be times when doing that could create conflict with taxis, delivery vans, and construction vehicles, especially when the parking spaces are full.
Bayley Street is two-way for cycles. There used to be a blue cycle symbol on the bollard next to the Santander bikes as well, but it disappeared a while ago. Can still see it on Google Maps from a couple years ago when there was demolition work going on.
3:36 damn that kid's run is competitive with public transport
Excellent video again!
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At 9'30" you mention it's (understandably) not possible to cover all routes requested. Just a thought, but where this is due to a lack of suitable cycling infrastructure, or some particular 'killer issue' (could be a dreadful major junction or an unmitigated recent development), it might prove just as useful to produce the odd roundup of a few such non-starters.
OK, odds against but perhaps someone from the local authority in question may be watching, whether a decision maker or a councillor irritated by the unability to let kids cycle safely to/from a local school …. thereby potentially removing much car traffic and gaining said councillor votes from happy happy constituents (d'ya see wot I did there? 🙂)
Nice route! Well done👍🙂
Brilliant to see how efficient the humble bicycle is as a viable form of transport around the capital. I rarely visit, but came to visit my brother recently in Earls court and took my bike on the train. It was fantastic getting around on the bike compared to where I live in Manchester. Your videos should be used for publicity by Tfl in persuading even more drivers out of their cars.
I know I'm going to win the award for most predictable comment but- Hooray for Midland Road!
I didn't realise the end of Bedford Sq was closed to motor traffic – great tip! A request if I may – I've noticed a slight gap in your (always excellent) service… could you add something more to cover north-central London taking in Marylebone east-west? I'm thinking of something like Paddington – Old St?