🚲 Cycling across the whole of central London without traffic — from Kensington to Liverpool Street

It's a fab route. I'm very much looking forward to the end of the super sewer sites so we get the safe spaces for people back from the road. At Blackfriars the way the lighte work for cycling is poor, I assume as they are designed for the cycle path you point out is due to be restored. At Westminster, massive pedestrianisation with cycle paths and very limited vehicle access has to come. The crossing Westminster bridge on a cycle path being used for big ben pictures and illegal ice cream vans is just not working.

One of my favourite routes, I continue it down Cable Street and towards Canary wharf. Shame the bit around Buckingham Palace is so frequently closed for one reason or another.

Also the tent city in Puddle dock is expanding, it used to be a few tents now there's loads.

Is there a good way to get from Chiswick to Marylebone/Euston area? How about to South Kensington around the museums, or the Royal Brompton/Royal Marsden hospitals?

Great video . Lived in Hammersmith until mid-last year and took a large bit of this route almost daily, to Westminster and along the river either to Tower Hill of Greenwich… lovely piece of infrastructure. Personally I actually liked Kensington High Street to cycle through (those few months there was a cycle lane were not particularly better and created quite a lot of issues for tax'si, food delivery etc…

Nice route. I don't know London very well, so I'm probably missing something, but looking at the map there appear to be other roads running parallel(ish) to Kensington High Street. Could TfL not use one of those to link the west London cycle network to the rest of the network in the centre/north/east?

Thank you, warning, I have taken one of those speed limiting things and punctured, and kudos to the Corporation of London aka The City, for its infrastructure, it may be the best London borough Aso if I was a cyclist from somewhere other than London with an interest in London I'd watch these

Not yet but I swear I will spot myself in one of your videos one of these days. You are riding some of my regular routes! Love 'em! 🤩

Great video! Thank you for making it. Really interesting to think about how individual routes 'network' to create far larger connections like the 'London grid' idea. So many places used to be really heavily car dominated (Elephant and Castle for example) before getting cycle upgrades and it seems like Kensington High St is one such spot that would benefit from similar modernisation. The whole stretch feels like a weird remnant of 1990s London currently … I guess some influential locals, or the local authority really want to keep it that way? 🚲🌳

Although I tend to avoid very touristy areas like that around Buckingham Palace, this could be a useful route for me when I've just been to the big Wholefoods Market on Kensington High Street. I don't find the rumble strips painful. Of course, if sit on the saddle like a sack of potatoes, you're going to feel every jolt. You have to move with the surface.

Pitfield Street is good for approaching Liverpool Street from a more northerly direction, as you can cross a nice wide crossing to Paul Street. Also, although the roads approaching it don't meet your criteria of quiet back streets/protected cycle lanes, the Old Street roundabout is now very cycle-friendly, and can get you down City Road in a southerly direction. You can then turn left down Worship Street or Finsbury Square towards Liverpool Street.

So it has come to this. I knew this day would come. The ultimate end of level boss of London cycle routes

Every time I watch you go down the section, I think about how the entire area around Castle Baynard Street needs to be demolished and built to a 2020s placemaking standard with great architecture fitting its prime location. It's just so miserably car-designed 1960s .

Honestly, a lot of the buildings near the river along Lower Thames Street are a disgrace. It all needs a redevelopment framework badly, preferably creating a vibrant medium density district along the river.

Layout at Blackfriars is too complicated- cyclists just ignore the infrastructure and lights

I’ve moved now so I don’t have to deal with them, but they put rumble strips on the Thames Path in Wandsworth just before the summer and I hated riding on them SO MUCH. Surely there must be better ways to slow people down! Sad to see so many tents in the tunnel by Upper Thames Street, seems like there are more each time

Never has there been a better example of nimbyism where central government needs to step in. Kensington & Chelsea is the most arrogant and self-centred borough that you could imagine. It's one thing having local oversight, but to actively block safe cycling routes for over a decade is a disgrace. The idea that they have the right to block routes between Westminster and Hammersmith is an absolute joke and a complete over-reach of what local transport powers should be about.

The new government needs to quickly pass new powers for the Mayor in order to override the boroughs' powers when it comes to key strategic routes. Kensington themselves will never change. They actively lobbied Boris to remove the congestion charge area extension, even though it meant their residents had to pay to enter the original zone as a result. They will literally cut off their nose to spite their face to prove their 'power' to not be told what to do.

Wow, It’s amazing around Threadneedle street now!
when I cycled for work around London in 1992-2008 that area was very heavy with buses heavy construction lorries. What an improvement!

Even when cycle lanes are very clearly marked I’ve had pedestrians yelling at me for being “on the pavement”. Bad signage shouldn’t happen. But there’s a lot of idiots out there as well.

very gud, thanks man 👍

Thanks for the video. So helpful and the 'network effect' that you mention is very interesting.