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It's pretty grim compared to my old commute (lower clapton to London bridge) and there have been days when I don't see a single cyclist until the foot tunnel and then none after.
I'll give that route a try, as from what I remember the big roundabout isn't quite as bad as swinging across 2 or 3 lanes of traffic at westferry (worse in the evening heading north).
Are there any plans to sort out tower hamlets? Or the main roads around Charlton, which seem to all be horrible dual carriage ways with a universally ignored 30mph speed limit?
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Are there any plans to sort out tower hamlets? Or the main roads around Charlton, which seem to all be horrible dual carriage ways with a universally ignored 30mph speed limit?
Tower Hamlets is unlikely to see a radical new approach to its traffic management anytime soon, I'm afraid.
I'm not very well-informed about the London Borough of Greenwich, but there's an LCC mailing list you could try.
Oliver Schick
You've picked a pretty impermeable stretch of London to traverse. :)
I'd probably go from Hackney Wick to Fish Island, cross the A12 at Old Ford Road (cycling and walking bridge), do Parnell Road, Fairfield Road (both fairly busy), then Campbell Road, Violet Road (various dog-legs), Morris Road, Chrisp Street, cross the A13 into Newby Place, and go east along Poplar High Street.
Unfortunately, if you get to the island on that side, there's no way of avoiding the big roundabout (Aspen Way/Cotton Street/Trafalgar Road/Preston's Road) unless you want to do the Blackwall Tunnel. It has been done, but for a regular commute you might well be ever so slightly too predictable. :)
Anyway, then Preston's Road, Manchester Road, East Ferry Road from the small roundabout (filtered in the middle), through the tunnel, etc.
It's worth trying, although in Tower Hamlets most of these fairly minor streets tend to carry high-ish volumes of through motor traffic because there's basically no attention been paid to strategic traffic management. And unless you want to go out of your way, the big roundabout is a given, unfortunately.
There have to be more (non-motorway) river crossings in that stretch--obviously, TfL's hideous Silvertown Tunnel proposal is not the answer.