Important: Shard HGV Routes published for Fri 16th > Sat 17th April 2010. Avoid area!

http://www.lcc.org.uk/index.asp?Pageid=1792

Every 3 mins......

Route from Bow
Exit Bow Midland Depot, turn left onto Wick Lane and take an immediate left to join the A102 Blackwall Tunnel Approach Rd. Exit the A102 at Brunswick Rd and drive up the slip road to the junction of the A13 (East India Dock Rd). Turning right onto A13 (East India Dock Rd), continue along the A13 Commercial Rd and at the top of Commercial Rd, turn left into Goodmans Stile and an immediate left into Leman St. Take a right turn into Prescot St and at the end of Prescot St, turn left into Mansell St.

At the end of Mansell St, turn right into Tower Hill and continue on into Byward St. Continue along Byward St into Lower Thames Street and into Upper Thames St. From Upper Thames St turn left into Queens St Place and drive over Southwark Bridge. Once over Southwark Bridge, take a left turn into Southwark St. Turn left at the end of Southwark St into Borough High St and then an immediate right turn into St Thomas St and on to the site.

Route from Battersea
Exit Stewarts Lane Industrial Estate on Silverthorne Rd and turn left. Take an immediate right turn on to Broughton Street. Turn right at traffic lights onto Queenstown Road. Travel along Queenstown Rd, straight over onto Battersea Park Road, up to the roundabout, turn right into Prince of Wales Drive and join Nine Elms Lane. Continue along Nine Elms Lane and through Vauxhall Cross on to Albert Embankment. Cross the roundabout at Lambeth Bridge on to Lambeth Palace Road. Cross the roundabout at Westminster Bridge into York Road. Cross the roundabout at Waterloo Bridge into Stamford St. Continue across Blackfriars Rd and into Southwark St. At the end of Southwark St, turn left into Borough High St and take an immediate right turn into St Thomas St and on to site. The return to the depot will be identical.

Please, let's have no LFGSS peeps caught by these..

(good spot by @cyclodelic on twitter)

ah just got a mailshot from LCC Lucy, you beat me to it.

I plotted the routes on a map

I plotted the routes on a map

to make it easier to avoid them.

most excellent indeed. found you on twitter, thanks+++++

So are we gonna arrange a 100+ cycle along this route ? ;)

but seriously, every 3 minutes? they'll just get stuck in traffic!

Certainly the lights don't change as fast as every three minutes, so presumably we'll end up with small convoys of trucks as they catch up with each other.

I'll be going past the Battersea part of the route tomorrow evening, so I'll make damn sure I watch out for them.

So are we gonna arrange a 100+ cycle along this route ? ;)

but seriously, every 3 minutes? they'll just get stuck in traffic!

there's a critical mass tomorrow night, if you've heard it might be heading somewhere...

The cost for ruined concrete I believe is quite a bit, perhaps someone in the building industry could put a figure on it?

Could get messy.

Thanks for the warning guys!
It is literally a nightmare out there on my route!

Isn't the next Critical Mass in two weeks time, or do you know something I don't?

Isn't the next Critical Mass in two weeks time, or do you know something I don't?

it's been on twitter for the last few days.

'Special Critical Mass on Friday (6.30pm NFT) visiting UK's biggest ever concrete pour @ The Shard...these lorries kill too many cyclists...'

is what I saw.

Ah right, I couldn't see anything on the CM London website, and I don't dogmatically watch my Twitter feed, I just catch the occasional thing.

Interesting.

there's a critical mass tomorrow night, if you've heard it might be heading somewhere...

The cost for ruined concrete I believe is quite a bit, perhaps someone in the building industry could put a figure on it?

Could get messy.

I really don't see what disrupting this achieves apart from pissing off a load of drivers and construction companies...

That hardly seems conducive to a friendly environment on the roads.

If it's just a critical mass that happens to go past there fine, but if it's sole point is to disrupt this, then that seems pretty stupid to me.

Southwark Cyclists are spreading the word about a 'special' Critical Mass ride tomorrow 16 April from 6.30pm - starting as usual @ NFT.

Would be great if we could arrange 100+ cycle along the above routes but I don't know if enough peeps know about what's going on at the Shard...?

So come along to the NFT! And be careful out there tomorrow every one...

Alex

There were more tipper trucks and concrete mixers about this morning (7 am) than usual I seem to remember.
Empty.
But this was coming up to the City from the South East .
Passed one of those tipper trucks trying to take a left turn into this side street off the Minories - http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=tower+gate+london&sll=54.136696,-4.042969&sspn=9.432466,26.279297&ie=UTF8&hq=tower+gate&hnear=Westminster,+London,+UK&ll=51.510248,-0.074882&spn=0,0.003208&t=h&z=18&layer=c&cbll=51.510491,-0.074972&panoid=vdww49NElD65_PZ5ErH1ng&cbp=12,297.6,,0,15.8

I plotted the routes on a map

to make it easier to avoid them.
Ha! you beat me to it, I was plotting the map now on the LCC site at the same time.

Thanks for the warning guys!
It is literally a nightmare out there on my route!
I'm off to Scotland for the weekend.

I plotted the routes on a map

to make it easier to avoid them.

Thanks for that. I've facebooked it. It's not like many of my facebook friends are cyclists but worth getting the message spread far and wide.

Kept the message simple if anyone else wants to blog it in some fashion. Yes, I shamelessly copied the text from the LCC site.

**Caution London Cyclists - Pouring of the Olympic Shard

Starting during evening rush hour on Friday 16 April 2010, and lasting for 36 hours, almost 700 return lorry trips will continuously pour 12,500 tons of concrete into the foundations of Europe's largest building site.

This amounts to an extra lorry on London's streets every 2-3 minutes on this route.

http://www.bikely.com/maps/bike-path/Routes-for-concrete-tipper-lorries-to-from-Shard-site**

**

How is the route correct? St Thomas street is one way from guys onwards. Are the lorries going to subvert the current one way system (due to their building site) and go back down taet part of st thomas street, or go up stainer street and onto tooley?

Or down Weston street, where they have already killed someone.

Oversight.

Nuts. The Battersea route is most of my long-cut in to work these days.

Will see how it is for a few days.

Ha! you beat me to it, I was plotting the map now on the LCC site at the same time.

That's a bit nicer with the annotations. What did you use to plot it?

Just looking at the route the A12 and A13 don't really pose that much of a threat to cyclists, it's the rest that's the real hazard and given the traffic that they'll encounter and the distance travelled it amazes me they couldn't find a more suitable loading alternative.

At the end of the day, the Shard will be built and from a construction point of view that foundation does need to be laid in the most effective manner possible. The logisitics of the operation are clearly very lacking though and that's where the authorities really need to be hauled up on this.

My building's management is sending out this info to all companies / staff in the building.....

from http://road.cc/content/news/16635-london-cyclists-red-alert

"
The London Cycling Campaign (LCC) has issued a warning to London cyclists that 700 heavy concrete mixer trucks are this weekend scheduled to visit The Shard building site near London Bridge Station.
Starting during this evening's rush hour - oh joy - and lasting for 36 hours, almost 700 return lorry trips will continuously pour 12,500 tons of concrete into the foundations of Europe's largest building site."

Well in. Cheers for that.

That's a bit nicer with the annotations. What did you use to plot it?
plotted on google maps with fatter darker lines. I asked about the return routes but didn't get a reply. I would have thought that using limehouse link and the highway would have been better than commercial road, and tower hill gyratory.
The first PR person I spoke to said that there would only be 30 lorries, no one had told him that each lorry was doing 23-24 return trips.