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”

2023 New Cycle Infrastructure Review

Map of new infrastructure: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1ded24_il1SkLPmBkiwV02jpKppkGapc&ll=51.516975804561284%2C-0.21828576419061996&z=10 The slow growth of London’s safe cycle network since 2021 has been a painful thing to witness. After the amazing leap forward in 2020 with countless new LTNs and pop-up cycleways, the last three years has only seen a slow drip of new schemes completed. What is frustrating is thatContinue reading “2023 New Cycle 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”