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One of the really annoying things about the Grid is that nothing much is going to improve in Kensington and Chelsea. If you're starting from, say, West Brompton Cemetery and you'd like to head north, you've no choice but to use Warwick Road, which just isn't safe for cyclists, given that you're forced to be in the right-hand lane (either to turn right onto Cromwell Road - another 3 lane road, or use any of the existing, ill-thought-out cycle lanes) which almost all motorists think is for overtaking/going as fast as humanly possible before the inevitable red light. Southbound along Earl's Court Road is just as bad, although there are a few alternatives available. Ken High Street is often on this forum for being unsafe. K&C is awful for cycling - in particular the Earl's Court One Way System, and The Grid doesn't make any meaningful change here. As a resident, I really don't see nearly as many cyclists around K&C, than I do almost anywhere else in this city, and the way K&C and TFL manage the roads here, ignoring the real needs of cyclists, must be the cause. A bold decision for a proper cycle lane on Warwick Rd and Earl's Court Road would have been welcome, and The Grid misses the chance to do so.
As posted above, pointing out (at great expense) that side streets exist, and sometimes the (primarily intended for motor vehicles' needs) one-way system may allow you to go vaguely in the direction you want, really isn't doing enough. Seriously, anyone with either a map or a mobile telephone could have worked that much out on their own...