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I wish there was more scope for my son riding on the road around where I live, but all he's done (at age 5) is a few laps of Finsbury Circus on a quiet Sunday afternoon, and the odd little bit where we've crossed a road so that he can keep going on the pavement with me in the road next to him. The back roads are still used as rat-runs during very off-peak hours. But that's life in EC1. Not very easy to travel by public transport (to get to quieter places) with bikes in tow either. Sort of limited to me carrying his bike and my Brompton on a bus, and then onwards via a train station.
Next summer I'm intending to organise a day out where we ride to Liverpool St (him on the pavement again, probably), and then get a train out to one of the traffic-free routes in the countryside i.e. disused railway line.
Anyway, I sympathise with the OP.