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The Olympic lane ban does include people on bikes but as with all vehicles, the ban is only when the lane is operational which varies depending on which Olympic site is being used. TfL contacted me to ask what advice to give regarding filtering through traffic. I said that we advise people on bikes to filter right or remain in the traffic stream. We don't advise filtering left. Since they cannot advise to filter right (onto a games lane) their advice is to wait in the traffic queue!!
The fact that many of the off road well used commuter routes through East Hackney such as the River Lee and Greenway are closed is scandalous and counter all promises regarding access, this causes a major detour on busy roads for people used to short off road hop between Stratford and Victoria park.
As for Westfield. Cycle access to there is terrible and (apart from the fact that my son works there) it is a souless mall akin to Brent Cross or any other chain store massacre place