Been doing the queen of the Suburbs to City via CS7 for ages, Richmond park has benefits but I find the Putney/Fulham bits worse than Tooting and CS7 is quicker.
Use the new Mew Malden - Raynes Park (? not Motspur), equal on time to heading via the A3/Krispie Kreme but continuous and will chill you right out.
In short, bike lane through Green Lane Rec from Surbiton to New Malden, Elm road (level crossing but who cares if held up), right onto the cut, cross New Malden High St, new bike lane all the way to Raynes Park, get off in front of the station and just walk through the tunnel, remount, ride up Kingston road, at the end go straight on up the bike path behind Wimbledon Chase Primary then out onto Kingston Road which becomes CS7 once at Colliers wood 3 mins later.
Hey, this is pretty much exactly what I've been doing and will likely settle on most of the time. I quite often go via RP for a couple of laps a few times a week but outside of that, this is probably the best option.
Been doing the queen of the Suburbs to City via CS7 for ages, Richmond park has benefits but I find the Putney/Fulham bits worse than Tooting and CS7 is quicker.
Use the new Mew Malden - Raynes Park (? not Motspur), equal on time to heading via the A3/Krispie Kreme but continuous and will chill you right out.
In short, bike lane through Green Lane Rec from Surbiton to New Malden, Elm road (level crossing but who cares if held up), right onto the cut, cross New Malden High St, new bike lane all the way to Raynes Park, get off in front of the station and just walk through the tunnel, remount, ride up Kingston road, at the end go straight on up the bike path behind Wimbledon Chase Primary then out onto Kingston Road which becomes CS7 once at Colliers wood 3 mins later.
Can add a map if required.