All photos in & around London

New contraflow lane in Covent Garden

Racks at Buckingham Palace.

Problem routing down this series of steps:

twitter.com/IsabelleClement/status/1672193420243214337

Superb.

Cycles crossing from Wellington Street to Waterloo Bridge have an awkward merge.

Strand

William IV Street, Covent Garden, London.

St Martin's Lane, Covent Garden with the towers of London Coliseum and St. Martin-in-the-Fields in the distance.

Lots of roadworks in the area make it effectively pedestrianized.

Oxford Street at coronation time, 2023.

Oxford Street at coronation time, 2023.

Oxford Street at coronation time, 2023.

Oxford Street at coronation time, 2023.

Oxford Street at coronation time, 2023.

Memorial to four soldiers killed, twelve injured soldiers, six injured civilians and seven horses killed.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyde_Park_and_Regent%27s_Park_bombings

I heard the explosion from two miles distant.

Times on signs:

↑ Marble Arch 6 mins
↑ 🚲 C55

Hyde Park Corner (via crossing) 1 min ➤
🚲 C3

Diana, Princess of Wales memorial fountain.

Segregated cycleway on Waterloo Bridge, A4200

Segregated cycleway on Waterloo Bridge, A4200

Narrow start to the segregated cycleway on Waterloo Bridge, A4200

Temple Bar, Strand, London

Detailed relief of a trip to St. Paul's by Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, February 27th 1872

Samuel Johnson

Strand

Kingsway, Covent Garden, London

Drury Lane, Covent Garden, London

London Cycle Network signs for:
Euston and King's Cross straight on

Left for Covent Garden, Soho

RIght for The City and Islington

But I think it has been rotated 180 degrees.

Wardour Street, London

Cycle hire in Soho Square

Oxford Street, London

Oxford Street, London

Oxford Street, London

Ramillies Street racks

Oxford Circus panorama

Magnolia by the cycle racks.

Hanover Street

Roadspace claimed for pedestrians and covered with planters in Regent Street, London

Except cycles in Oxendon and Panton Streets

Panton Street, West End, London

Eclectic mix of electric bikes in Cambridge Circus.

Santander hire bikes in Kensington Gardens, Queensway.

Timing of signal for cyclists going between Hyde Park/William St is awful. Lots of waiting even when people could go.

Bikes on the Elizabeth Line - quite normal now, though the two lifts to get down to the platforms are not close to each other so it's a tedious transfer.

Alley near Paddington station (and an excellent new real ale/craft beer pub)

I'd guess that cycles can still get through.

Cycle parking and route sign etc

Cycle lane on Horse Guards Avenue.

A dockless city bike by the Royal Tank Regiment memorial, Whitehall Court

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Tank_Regiment_Memorial

Whitehall Court

I was pleasantly surprised to notice bikes parked just inside the main entrance of this building: No. One, Horse Guards Avenue.

It was a small set of two-tier racks.

Horse Guards Avenue has advisory cycle lanes.

So much new traffic-free space, and this is more or less all the new cycle parking for Somerset House - more is needed!

Modal filter on the new traffic-free section of the Strand

Cycle and pedestrian crossing from the new traffic-free section of the Strand - but it's usually too busy to cycle.

Despite the 20mph sign, cyclists have to turn left here - the route ahead is for westbound cyclists only.

The Parliament Square cycleway blocked by a bus in the middle of the junction

Lights on the Parliament Square cycleway

Route sign on the Parliament Square cycleway (to the right of the motor lanes)

Roadworks on CS8

Cyclesuperhighway 8 narrows here to pass inside a floating bus stop.

Temporary closure, I think, but cyclists can get through

Cyclesuperhighway 8 narrows here to pass inside a floating bus stop.

The off-road cycleway might as well be removed now the segregated on-road route has been created.

Bridge in the Grosvenor Waterside development - pedestrians only, and it doesn't really go anywhere.

Modal filter on access to the Grosvenor Waterside development

Modal filter on access to the Grosvenor Waterside development

The segregated cycleways along the Embankment (CS8 and NCN route 4) start here at this bike sharing station

Hard to see why motor traffic would need two lanes from 7pm to 7am, but not during the day.

Right-turn lane on Cyclesuperhighway 3

End of the Hyde Park cycleways

No Entry, but Please ride considerately? Clearly an Except Cycles plate is missing - but the design of this whole route is based on it being closed for major events and used for motor vehicles.

There are railings there? How would you know? Let alone chain a bike to them.

Two weeks out of date

Why does this have to be so complicated? Luckily one can just go straight ahead between the bollards.

Bus Stand markings still visible, and new bus stand outside the lane now used as a cycleway.

Former traffic lane now a two-way segregated cycleway

Bus Stop markings still visible, and new bus stop outside the lane now used as a cycleway.

Westminster borough street-sweeper's e-bike

Sharing scheme bikes and pedestrian cut-through

New pedestrian area

No No Entry sign, so cyclists should be able to cut through along Berners Mews

Mews cut-through towards the BT Tower

No Motor Vehicles on this link to Oxford Street

Cycle parking just off Oxford Street

Closed road to Oxford St with cycle parking

Cycle parking just off Oxford Street

Pedestrian alley to Oxford Street

New cycle parking on both sides of the road

New cycle parking on both sides of the road

New cycle parking on both sides of the road

Pedestrian alley (with cycle parking ahead)

Cycle parking on a pedestrian alley

New pedestrian area

Victoria Embankment CS3

Savoy Street links Strand and Victoria Embankment

Strand / Aldwych

This part of Strand at Aldwych has been pedestrianized with cycling permitted.

An upside down globe and stainless steel racks.

Vale, Dame Vivienne Westwood: designer, punk, cyclist.
Her London office was close to mine so I’d see her all the time going by bike. I remember spotting her red hair from afar as she circled Berkeley Square, weaving around stationary taxis in an enormous tartan cape. RIP t.co/yPvq0gsPf0

www.theguardian.com/fashion/2022/dec/30/vivienne-westwood-an-appreciation

[Editor's note:] The photo was probably taken several years previously to that shown here.
Also, I think that is Waterloo Bridge in the background and this is on Victoria Embankment.

New arrows to steer motor traffic away from the cycle lane on Waterloo Bridge

Moving bollards outside King's College, London on Strand:

twitter.com/WorldBollard/status/1598245522909065218

[Image taken 21.10.22] Storey's Wine Bar/Westminster Arms (www.westminsterarms.co.uk/), 9 & 10 Storey Gate, Westminster, SW1P 3AT. Two laden e-cargo cycles. This image was posted to the Lambeth Cycles googlegroup: lambethcyclists.org.uk/ It illustrates what and how much can be carried by a cargo cycle. They illustrate why this is not cycle parking: #187024. They show why cycle parking needs to be provided close to the point of loading/unloading - ie not the far side of a car park with a long walk between moving motor vehicles: #187063; why there is no place for kerbs when locating cycle parking: #186444; and why you need a lot of space in front of any supports/uprights (ie not as here: #186049) and also behind, as this good example shows: #184752.

Covent Garden Market - www.londonkensingtonguide.com/bike-shops-covent-garden/