Active travel

shopping area in Charlton, ...
with immaculate access for cycling and walking from the east and west completely separated from cars. .

Where is this?

That middle article link chimed with me when I read it yesterday. I noticed a few times recently drivers doing this shooing gesture as I wait to cross the road at a junction. Only started seeing this in the last few years. Like a gesture you would do to an irritating wasp, rather than open-hand offer saying "you are safe to cross". It's kind of sad, I think a lot of motorists fell into the Top Gear / Daily Mail lazy anti-bicycle rhetoric. There is a lot of anger on the roads. The 'new dawn' of cycling popularity post-2012 fell flat pretty quickly. A cynic might say that an ebike future might be more about the e than the bike. We have to be constantly consuming these days. Regular bikes are dangerous because they are cheap, self-empowering, healthy and offer freedom.

Charlton... with immaculate access for cycling

FWIW I cycle daily from Putney to Woolwich and the Charlton stretch is one of the worst bits of road on the whole 25km route.
It has never once been swept or cleaned and every inch is strewn with glass, it's bumpy, filled with pedestrians standing in it by bus stops, drivers swing across the cycle path to turn into junctions without looking/caring. I hate it and I get a puncture there every couple of weeks