TFL Cycle Superhighways

CS3 is a victim of its own success. It's too narrow for a two way cycle route at the moment - It gets so busy in rush hour that I've had some hairy moments there with other cyclists overtaking me straight into another cyclist coming the other way. Granted they shouldn't cycle like dicks, but it's such a confined space - compare with the nice wide n-s superhighway.

So the whole thing needs to be widened or they need to do something else to address the problem - one of which might be a traffic calmed mixed traffic route in one direction, for example.

The LCC's demand for Cable Street has always been to filter--the existing track is a sub-standard joke and the side street junctions are very hazardous. Just last year, a forumenger lost some teeth somewhere along there in a crash (graphic photo posted on the forum). We have long said that the track needs to go and the street fully filtered.

There are definitely problems with the proposals, however--they're proposing to create a lot of one-way streets. Basically, they're filtering Cable Street but are proposing using 'traditional' and very poor methods (one-way streets, banned turns) to manage traffic in the rest. I think they may have taken the words 'filter Cable Street' to mean that they should filter only Cable Street. You always have to filter the whole cell, not just one street in it. I do hope we can get that changed. The track should, of course, be scrapped in both directions, with full modal filtering. At the moment, they probably can't afford all the kerb work that would require (re-routing drainage etc.), so they're proposing to do only half a job, but the proposal to only have a carriageway in one direction causes problems with traffic management. The new Mayor of Tower Hamlets supports it, and he's still here for a while, so there's no reason not to do it properly.