You can cycle from Victoria in central London to Brixton in south London entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 5.2km long (3.2 miles) and makes use of Cycleway 5 and the Oval LTN as well as shortcuts through estates.
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I also highly recommend the Safe Cycle LDN map for route planning, which is compiled by @SafeCycleLDN on twitter:
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16 Comments
Nice route. Thanks for the video.
Could have gone through Durand gdn, over Clapham rd, Normandy rd, clowley rd, myatts field south, Gresham rd.
I usually go along S. Lambeth Rd just as far as Larkhall Park, then turn into Fentimen then Meadow Rd etc. And more often that not I go through Stockwell Park Estate via the Graffiti Hall of Fame instead of that way but otherwise identical. I've been going this way for many years, more or less. I usually start at Borough Market though, and filter west to Vauxhall via Union St>The Cut>Lower Marsh>Newport St>Vauxhall Walk. I love that block you go under at Mursell, strangely neglected estate. Worst road surface in inner London! That bridge at Stockwell Park is I think the last remaining one, in the 80s you could walk the entire length of that estate on raised walkways, though most people avoided it.. When I leave that estate I usually go left onto Brixton Rd and do a quick u-turn cross through to the side of Max Roach Park, bit of a missed trick there. You can somewhat awkwardly exit the estate a bit further up then cross to Villa Rd instead. Then go through the back of Brixton via St John Crescent Wilshire Rd and Pope's Rd. Then onto Brockwell which now seems to keep the gates open at night permanently… All good until the backward shole that is West Dulwich.
Great quiet route I didn't know about, wow! – I'm looking forward to the Slade Gardens LTN , thank you for mentioning it, it's going to make a great difference 😇👍
Regarding Lambeth Bridge , what are your thoughts on the safe routes it can enable? Are you waiting for the Walnut Tree LTN, for the crucial filter on Lambeth High Street?
Awesome route! Thank you! Mursell Estate looks like a really handy way to cross into Stockwell Park Rd and avoid the main road. The first block you cycle under is quite dramatic looking! Apparently the whole thing (along with Spurgeon Estate nearby) is early 1960s, designed by GLC and was innovative for retaining and integrating a few historic buildings. They look like some really well made maisonettes with also a lot of potential to really improve the ground level for opening up routes through Stockwell..cheers! 🚲
This is very different from when I used to cycle to and from Uni via these areas. It was racing and fighting motor vehicles the whole way.
Some of these paths/junctions did exist then but the wait times to cross were so long it was better to stay on the road.
That contra-flow early on was a bit dodgy given there was only space for one car so if something was coming the other way you would be in difficulty especially if the driver was not considerate.
on the question of the metal barrier on the bridge …
there's something particularly horrible about the car as weapon attacks on bridges, where people have nowhere to escape … and I think at least one person has been thrown off a bridge and into the Thames …
so whilst they are a nuisance, on balance, I'm personally in favour of protection!
Strange thing about this one is I only ever do it in this direction.
2:52 A guy in a Range Rover drove fast at me down the wrong way of this section of (one way) Regency Street a few weeks back. By pure luck I leant my bike and he missed me. He just kept driving.
He had a cloned number plate sadly. Some solution to replace number plates on cars with digital signatures needs to happen, as it appears to becoming more common.
6:09 In an alternative reality, Ken Livingstone would have beated Boris Johnson in 2008 and by now we would likely have trams across central London. Am sure the cross river tram would have been popular enough to convince policymakers to build more
10:19 are those Abingdon lanes "locked in", or can thursday results scupper it?
2:52 Overdesigned micromanaged "merge lane" for bicycles on the opposite side – they don't do this in the Netherlands because they aren't needed
C5 doesn't meet standard, to only have a bi-directional on one side of the street – "why do you hate the other side of the street?"
In the Netherlands they don't put "give way" lines before pedestrian crossings, let alone full traffic lights, yet there are multiple on this part of C5.
3:27 They put the barrier in to fend off against cars, but instead of punishing cars, it punishes bicycles, by taking up their already limited space, and the paint is off-centre. The car lanes are left untouched. This goes against the design principle of comfort.
3:57 This goes against the design principle of directness
4:20 Lovely direct crossing, but the corner at the end is too sharp, it has a very low design capacity, almost like they expected nobody to use it (or they expected everyone to use it very slowly single-file).
It is really disappointing when knee jerk short term measures (terrorist barriers on vauxhall bridge redcing the cycle lane width) just become permanent. The bridge was refurbished back in 202 and I hoped TFL would have taken the opportunity to find a better solution. But no. they put everything back as it was. Pathetic
Can I ask what your camera and mount set up is?
Nice video. The gaps at the side of those plastic road bumps on Stockwell Park Road do not look wide enough for a mobility aid – eg a Class 3 Mobility Scooter or side-by-side tricycle or wheelchair, which should sensibly be 1.5m by national guidelines – so a complaint may get them put up to 1.5m or at least 1.2m, which would be enough for 98% or so.
ok. I can't watch this with the bike going 30mph.