You can cycle from Tottenham Court Road in central London to Aldwych entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 1.8km long (2.1 miles) and makes use of a new filter on Bayley St, protected lanes down Bloomsbury Street and the newly pedestrianised section of the Strand.
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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/2783089296?share_token=auNm37ckEcGQedIoxbGIw6d1HEyyUy5Ur3nPTt4KOaP0EtI47m&ref=wtd
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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
21 Comments
Thanks for doing a west end video. Its still quite easy to go wrong doing that journey and ending up on shaftesbury avenue, Holborn or similar!
Nice – this is my little lunch time route from Kings to Fitzrovia. It also gets you near Waterstones and Tavistock for Kings Cross
Agree on Bow Street being chaotic. Wasted opportunity to make a street with such lovely buildings better, as you say
Rare sunny day in London! 🌞
Another great video. I was brought up in London and I love seeing how it has changed for the better in your videos.
At 4:09 you can just see the entrance to Aldwych Station, originally Strand Station, which was closed in 1994 and is now used as a filming location.
Thank you for a video in my back yard, the only thing I'd add for somebody who cycles in the West End frequently the pedestrians are as much of a hazard as the vehicles
No reference to Komoot or a shout out Thanks to Jacob, this week.
Good seeing the sun in central London after so many days of grey.
Odd how the width of that road varied so markedly.
Lovely sunny day when you filmed. Thanks.
Great route. I'll use that. I've never known what to do at the North End of Endell Street.
I rate the fish and chip shop on Endell Street, amazingly consistent
re: beautiful pedestrianised area near King’s College, there's lots of people milling around, and it's common for the occasional car and van to be pottering around, so good policy to just take it really chilled through there
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Please can you do some videos around Wimbledon, Kingston sorts of area? I’ve noticed you don’t have many videos in south west london and there are some good schemes like the one from Raynes Park to New Maldon – Cycleway 31
Thank you! Has anyone else noticed that Citymapper has been stopped for cycles unless part of a rental bike ride?
This was part of my daily route from Waterloo to Great Portland Street and that wiggle at the end of Endell St. ALWAYS used to get me! The wiggle is much worse riding in the opposite direction, motor vehicles just don't care about cyclists at that junction because it's such a complicated junction for everyone.
Great video, especially the West End & central London focus which so many of us pass through so often.
I don’t ride central that often and if I do tends to be along the embankment, though looks like lots do use hire bikes for such use, I tend to get as far as I can by train and then be on foot, tube at least central is inaccessible for me so some places are not really worth the effort and all that.
Ooh you said "The" Strand. Heinous crime! 😆
Nice one. Some parts of that route are new to me
I dont do Tottenham Court Road- all my routes either just cross it or are parallel. Nb i use Komoot to plan my journeys.
How lovely with no cars. Quiet and no pollution. There could also be garden & lawned areas alongside. A better quality of life. To think we had it right in the 1950s – railways everywhere with buses and lorries working WITH the railway, not against. Cycles could go in the guards van. An integrated system.
Oooh this is part of my commute, I love the slightly chaotic-ness of endell street onwards always gives me some entertainment especially in the evening.