You can cycle from Stoke Newington in north London to Angel entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 5km long (3.2 miles) and makes use of Cycleway 1 and Cycleway 27 running through various LTNs in Hackney and Islington
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I also highly recommend the Safe Cycle LDN map for route planning, which is compiled by @SafeCycleLDN on twitter:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=1XlpvN9R-Wg7qZHyezO8y-eVlftr4e0WX&hl=en
19 Comments
This is such an amazing route! Well done!
Hi, you are right about LTN changing areas. An LTN was put in my street and I often now see kids cycling, roller skating and playing on the street as the amount of traffic has considerably reduced. Any opposition to them rarely seems to come from the people who live there.(of course this is somewhat anecdotal – but none of my neighbours would want it to return to the old way).
I’ve commented here several times with regards to not living in London (I did once) but enjoying your videos. I think the main thrust should be as your channel name states. However, for people like myself who do not live in London, the ‘analysis’ videos often contain information that’s relatable more broadly. Fitting in the occasional one is, personally, welcome. Thanks.
The Garden School in Wordsworth Road is a special needs school. It's at the end of a dead end loop in an LTN so there's no through traffic. I expect a lot of children are driven in by car or bus so it helps to drive around a loop.
I know this route well, from Hackney to Islington, two of the best cycling boroughs. Check out all those bike hangers/lockers from 1:20. It would be useful to state what month this was filmed – it's relevant for things like people's clothing choices, and also tree growth. The cut-through cycle path on Palatine Road (2:08) was planted with fast-growing trees on the left, which now in mid-May are a bit of a bushy menace. But overall, it's a pleasant ride, and yes, the incremental improvements add up. I like your historical speculations on street names. Keep up the good work!
To really highlight how busy cycle routes are in that part of town at rush hour you should cycle in the other direction rather than with the flow.
If you do this route around now theres some construction going on around king henry's walk. You can still get through but theres a pretty inane temporary traffic light situation that feels particularly stupid given most of the traffic through the area is already bikes, which can easilly get past each other even on a narrowed road. On all the occasions i've been through there, i've yet to see a situation where the lights have been red for a good reason.
I love your channel and the rides are really interesting, but as I live in Hampton Court, it would be great for you to do the Thames Path from Kingston Upon Thames to Central London along the river! G
Great video. CS1 and CS27 is my daily route to work. Islington and Hackney are by and far the best boroughs for cyclists. If only other London boroughs could be just as cycle friendly.
You claim beautifying streets in a qualitative thing which won’t improve any specific statistic but could nonetheless make it a more pleasant place to be. I agree it would make it more pleasant! But you are missing many quantitative improvements that would bring. Removing parking at intersection (“daylighting”) improves visibility which can lead to fewer crashes or scares like at 2:26. There’s also probably some heat island effect reductions which can reduce the danger of extreme heat in the summer.
I used a route close to that one 15 odd years ago. Glad to see that mini roundabout fixed. It was so common for cars to cut me up there. I work from home now. I wish things were as they are now when I was cycle commuting daily from 1999-2020.
Another good indicator of increased cycling in London is the number of those arched bike-hangar huts along the residential roads – for residents who don’t have space for easily storing a bike at home as live in either a terraced house with no garden or a flat. Were sometimes 4-5 bike hangars on those streets he passed …. x6 bikes per hangar….24-30 bikes per street, just in the hangars
Would expect to see similar in inner parts of other (especially european) cities? – but I know the amsterdammers are happy to just chain their bike to a lamppost and hope for the best.
Are they in other cities?
Not a thing here in Perth Australia…most people live in suburban houses with plenty of storage, and (there isn’t much of it) apartments are generally fairly new so come with underground parking spaces / locked storage. But we do have travel-card-enabled secure bike sheds at train stations…
Always amazed by how well researched your videos are
Lots of bike hangars which is good to see!
Another mesmerising ride!
This was my cycle stomping ground in the mid-2000s living in Stoke Newington and working around London, and basically none of this was in place. If I go back even further to being a cycle courier in the late 90s, it was even more sparse – just roads with nothing for cyclists except the odd white line, lots of pollution, cycling around Elephant & Castle trying not to die. Good times! I Really miss it sometimes, living in Hastings by the sea now, but glad to see how the cycling infrastructure has changed unrecognisably since then. Amazing.
Big thumbs-up for the ride.
Perhaps I'm showing my age, and the route was amazing, but I was a little uneasy about the pace, albeit I could easily handle that. It took me a while to figure out what I found disconcerting: Not one (unless I missed one) other cyclist bothered to look behind them at any point. It's like they were cycling in their own little world, and damn the others. Don't get me wrong, they weren't outright rude to their fellow riders, but to *anyone in any vehicle sharing a road*, you have to be aware of what's around you at all times, especially on a bike.
I'd love to do that route, but at a more relaxed pace (fully aware that run-time for the vid is X2).
Thank you 😊
I cycle everyday in London it’s not that bad it’s really quite safe if you just ride responsibly.