You can cycle from Leytonstone in north east London to Hackney Wick in east London entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 4.8km long (3 miles) and makes use of protected cycle lanes on Grove Green Road and Waterden Road.
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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/2012424926?share_token=alwXoUUHRF1PE6Bnf3XOMyrR43HpHpIFS4nJQ9oFCRQuSYyq29&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:
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11 Comments
Hope this shames the council responsible in to clearing those bushes. Always annoying to see safe space being compromised by lack of maintenance. Thank you as always for a fab video.
I prefer to cycle through the Olympic Park once you come over Eastway, much nicer wide paths. There's also an abandoned road (but nicely paved) that you can take instead through that section of the park too. Great vid as always!
my local area 🙂 I do my best to avoid the eastway clusterf*ck. Go straight into the Langhtorne Footbridge, cross it, from there LTN around Leyton, Temple MIll Lane bridge and olympic park. Shame that crossing of Leyton High and Temple MIll lane got no bike crossings at all, lethal place.
5:33 I get the impression that is probably the single clearest indicator of the current lack of ambition in London's leadership – why is there no (urban highway&)parking removal plan yet? There clearly is way too much car infra as it is
Hackney wick has really nice cycling routes. Can you please do a hackney to Marlybone route? I once cycled in Marylbone and I find it stressful- lots of cars and speeding cyclists and barely any separate cycle lane.
Interesting route. Complete alien world for me, West London folk. I mean, I got lost and confused during the Hackney Half Marathon 😅😅
In need of a quick cycle route from Romford to Feltham (only protected cycles lanes of course 😉). If you could whip that up I'd appreciate it. Cheers.
Thanks for the video. The final part around the Olympic Park area seemed to be more of a mess that I would have expected given how good the other areas in the video were. Any chance of a video around the Olympic Park maybe picking out the best routes around and through.
Pity about the big concrete blocks in the cycle lane by the olympic park, but before they put them in there were a LOT of drivers using it as an extra access road
I don't like shared paths either, esp when populated by dog walkers with loose dogs. I have found that even if the path has a line down the middle pedestrians walk on the wrong side – that includes one where the sides are on different heights!
RE the Olympic design. Yes, there was an internal circulation road for athletes (called the loop road), but it was wholly within the park. Parts of it are still in use, marshgate lane Northwall Rd and sidings st. for example. Eastway, which you rode on was already there before the games. I think its width is down to the fact that there is no other E-W route for a ways in either direction (north and south).