2025 has been the best year for new cycle infrastructure in London since the COVID-19 pandemic. This has seen not only the City of Westminster finally start its delivery of several transformative schemes, but also the construction of two new cross-river connections at Lambeth and Hammersmith, and the completions of two large projects, along theContinue reading “2025 New Cycle Infrastructure review”
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2024 New Infrastructure Review
Follow this link for the accompanying map: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1dzywA6k0CrBgQeYculZ6rxZ92lCyvio&ll=51.511623245437306%2C-0.14341749999998932&z=10 Since the lockdown years of 2020/2021 (when councils and TfL constructed pop-up cycleways/LTNs here, there and everywhere), the delivery of new cycleway/low-traffic neighbourhood projects has been slow, with the year-on-year delivery in 2022, 2023, and now 2024, being markedly less than the three years before the pandemic.Continue reading “2024 New Infrastructure Review”
Land Grabs – London’s easy-to-deliver backstreet cycleways
When it comes to the planning and design of new cycleways in London, two things have dramatically changed since March 2020: firstly, Transport for London (TfL) have had to tighten their belts, resulting in fewer planned large-scale cycleway schemes, and secondly, in an attempt to ‘build back better’ numerous new low-traffic neighbourhoods (LTN) have beenContinue reading “Land Grabs – London’s easy-to-deliver backstreet cycleways “
2022 New Infrastructure Review
2021 and 2022 have been the worst years for new cycle infrastructure in London for perhaps a decade. This is because between spring 2020 and summer 2022, central government refused to negotiate a long-term funding settlement with Transport for London (TfL), leading to a freeze in investment for most new cycleway schemes. This means, thoseContinue reading “2022 New Infrastructure Review”
SafeCycleLDN 