This morning's commute and other commuting stories

I was turning left onto Kennington road.

So there are issues regardless of whether going left or straight to E&C.

As long as the segregated lane is at least as wide as the current bus lane. If not there is going to be a tailback of cyclists almost as long as the one full of cars each morning peak. If the number of cyclists increases even that isn't going to be wide enough.

Sadly I have to agree.

Finished work early yesterday, recabled and retaped my geared bike (the ubiquitous blue Ribble audax). Rode it in this morning for the first time this year, instead of riding the fixed gear. Wow, I'd forgotten what a piece of piss having gears makes everything. However, despite brand new cable inners and outers, it's still not shifting that great.

Nice to be able to ride up and down hills at appropriate cadences though.

How worn are your chain and sprockets?

The CS2 seems awful, the traffic through Whitechapel after work was bad enough, now cars are being squeezed more and the 'Segregated bike paths' are already in a horrible state to cycle on. Bounce you all over the place and put you even closer to even more oblivious pedestrians.

LCC's Go Dutch /space for cycling campaigns will be shown to be what they are: misguided.

The first thing we need to sort is the burden of proof. But no the campaign focussed on segregation.

/annoyed

Rode in for a midday start today before the hangover kicked in.
Lots of families cycling along the river Lea having a really great time.

10/10 - would slow down for happy children again.

So much this. That video shows a blue lane going in between two bits of pavement. That's not going to end well. It's basically encouraging some Cat 5 cuntmuter to ride 20mph in between peds. NICE PLANNING GUYS. Facepalm.

They're filthy and had a few months of hard use through crap weather towards the end of last year. Might have something to do with it...

I've been booked by the same agency in Kentish Town for 3 months and I live just off Camden Road, I keep telling myself that I'll leave early to go for a scenic ride or walk in instead, but I just lounge about the house and leave with about 5 minutes spare. Laziest commute ever!

fuckingthis!

Why they thought it'd be smart to have cyclists leave the flow of traffic, weave about with pedestrians, then re-enter traffic is beyond me.

Someone high profile has to make the case against blindly segregating cyclists like that.

Not heard anything back from my earlier email to the TFL team

fast becoming apparent that segregation only really works if it all fucking joins up. hey look folks! here's some of that segregation you people keep banging on about. sure it's all of 30 metres on an otherwise inoffensive stretch of road and it spits you out into the path of an oncoming bus, but it's segregated! woo! take the rest of the week off.

this isn't what anyone asked for.

^well said.

I lived in Wapping for two years whilst working in Canary Wharf. I am crap at getting up in the mornings, so perfected waking up and being at my desk 15mins later. Admittedly having showers at work helped ;-)

I was at the LCC AGM when they voted in the #space4cycling campaign. @Oliver Schick was one of the few people in the room to say it wasn't as good idea.

Natch

I could vaguely understand the segregation if it eventually ran behind the bus stop, but even then, at some point or another, it has to spit you out into the bus lane again. Have been trying out the new system, if only to appease the already stressed drivers, but safest option for now is to ignore it.

This two

Look at the other segregated bit of the CS7 - Southwark Bridge. If you're travelling northbound at rush hour it's pretty likely the blue paint will disappear under an HGV once the segregated bit spits you out.

Bonus points for the "Cyclists stay back" sticker on the bus in Gaz's clip. So TFL have spunked money on stickers telling cyclists to stay away from the cycle lane TFL put in.

Wow. Proper Dutch infrastructure. I would definitely let my kids ride through there.

They're filthy and had a few months of hard use through crap weather towards the end of last year.

What people forget is that the cycling infrastructure is routinely maintained in other country.

The British seemed to think that they only need to build it and leave it at that.

I passed the video by cyclegaz onto the lambeth cyclists group emails a bit ago. Agree with stuff about the bus stop becoming a floating bus stop(on an island with the cycle path going behind it). If I find somewhere to register support/complaint/feedback I'll post a link.