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Meanwhile TFL have just sent this to my inbox
*Cycle Superhighway Route 5, which runs from Oval to Pimlico via the Vauxhall gyratory, has now launched. This is part of the Road Modernisation Plan and is one of the ways we reinvest all our income to run and improve your services.The route provides a more direct journey with a number of innovative safety features including:
- A fully segregated two-way cycle track across, separating cyclists from motor traffic along the route, at signalised junctions and at bus stops
- Connections to Cycle Superhighway 8, which runs from Wandsworth to Westminster, at Vauxhall Bridge Road
- Wider footways and new and upgraded pedestrian crossings*
Perhaps its worth emailing TFL with your experience of the new CS5 so that they might realise the errors in their planning.
- A fully segregated two-way cycle track across, separating cyclists from motor traffic along the route, at signalised junctions and at bus stops
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Perhaps its worth emailing TFL with your experience of the new CS5 so that they might realise the errors in their planning.
I've just emailed Graham Nash, Sponsorship manager - Major Programmes Email address: customerservicesroads@tfl.gov.uk - shall see what happens.
@PQR I've jumped off the cycle path too. However, as its a drop curb, its a bit it and miss whether the traffic is in your favour or not.
Muppetteer
CS5 is a real step backwards for cyclists although it does provide (some) segregation.
The first set of cycle lane lights going south on Vauxhall Bridge Road are phased to really treat cyclists as second class citizens. They're green for less than 50% of the time the main lights are on, which is frustrating. Motor vehicles can go straight on, but cyclists are stuck, so a couple of motor vehicle can turn left onto John Islip Street.
At the end of the Vauxhall bridge, cyclists have to queue on the pavement to cross over the Albert Embankment. If it gets busy now, with 20-30 cyclists queuing at rush hour, its going to be chaos in the spring/summer. And once you've crossed the first section, there's a really strange bend and another set of lights. Last night there were too many cyclists to get everybody though, and people had to wait on the other side of the road. Crazy!
Once you've got past all of that, through the tunnel thing by the Royal Vauxhall Tavern, which is only as wide as a set of handle bars. Then you've got to queue at another pedestrian crossing to continue onto CS5. None of this I would mind if cyclists had equal green light time, but alas, its on for a very brief period.
And to top it all, as you go southbound along Harleyford Road / A202 southbound, it just stops and dumps you on the wrong side of the road at another pedestrian crossing. Imagine if motorists had to press a button at traffic lights?