🚲 The best way to cycle from Pimlico to Wandsworth
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- You can cycle from Pimlico in central London to Wandsworth in south west London, entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 7.6km long (4.8 miles) and makes use of Cycleway 8 and quiet streets following the south west mainline.
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I haven’t worked in London for over thirty years but I do really enjoy watching your videos. I’m sure the infrastructure is far from perfect but it (probably) is better than most UK cities. What I also really like is how you show and highlight those bits of London that are easily accessible but not found if your idea of London is The Tube Map. Inform, educate, entertain as the phrase goes 👍
Thanks very much that’s very kind! I hope it’s a public service of sorts
@@Londoncycleroutes Public Service Broadcasting 🙂
I personally don’t mind an occasional right turns in two stages, but they really highlight where cycling is just an afterthought to councils and TfL. When they are not willing to reallocate road space, it’s very easy for them to just tell cyclists to turn in two stages.
Yes that’s a good way of putting it I think
A tad too much chat about the big picture at the cost of describing the route I think
there is a wave machine at Latchmere, been there since i was a child im now 43
Good to have it confirmed!
Interesting video and comments. When designing cycleways it would help if the designers made right turns (and other complex manoeuvres) 'clear and obvious' and also consistent. Then we would not have to second guess how to make the turn - it would be obvious. So I don't mind how they do it but be consistent. Thanks for making the videos. Is it always sunny in London? Or do you only make videos on sunny days? Thanks again.
It’s not always sunny but I’m definitely more likely to get out on a bike when it is haha! Partly as it’s more fun, partly as it looks better in the video, partly as I can’t shoot in the rain as even a single speck on water on the lens ruins the footage (it doesn’t break the camera or anything it’s just there’s a speck of water blocking out part of the video). That said though, I do think it rains less than people think - sure the chances of it raining sometime on a given day are fairly high for a lot of the year, but when it comes to cycle commuting it’s rare for it actually to be raining at the specific time you’re commuting - I noticed this when cycle commuting every day that it was just not common to actually get properly rained on- certainly less than 10 times a year I would say
I believe French road rules allow hook turns (turn left to turn right) for cyclists at all junctions unlike in the UK where the hook turn markings indicate those where you are allowed to -- which, if properly advertised, makes for good standardisation (same with contraflow being authorised in all 30km/h roads in France -- though the prefecture de police in Paris is fighting against it arguing that since 30km/h became a blanket rule it led it to be applicable in roads unsuited to it! But that's another story for another day). Some communes have signs to help nudge cyclists into doing so but as Altis's video I've linked below explains, there really is very little clarity on where you are supposed to wait. At least in London, the hook turn markings do make it clear where to wait (and in a case I have in mind at the Tavistock Place/Tavistock Square intersection, the council/TfL refused to install them for some movements because of a lack of waiting space).
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Really interesting thank you! The markings do at least make it clear, I wonder if it would make sense to put in a generalised change to the Highway Code as well in a U.K. context
When I first got my bike I did have LA lessons in RBKC 🎉so was shown this route. I don't like it tho. Crossing Battersea park road would give me ANXIETY the same as all the twists and turns. I don't like feeling wobbly on my bike.
Okay my first bike was a fold up I learned to cycle Albert Bridge to Putney bridge loop. Just like this video. But the chain kept coming off (Inc leaving Albert Bridge 😬) I got a full size trek now I like STRAIGHT roads, tarmac 😍 I love CS8. Tate to Lambeth bridge 😊 is my 10 second speed trial.
So this route, the crossing at the Latchmere, the cobbled road, why isn't Falcon Park made for bikes, every thing about it annoys me 😂 I just go on the main roads which here are too narrow, too busy and a flipping nightmare. I have to psyche myself up first.
I don't think they consult female cyclists like me. A horrible man blocked my bike in with lime bikes intentionally so now I'm back on crutches. Couldn't cycle home yesterday. Same as the last time I went over cobbles. Maybe I could do the turns 😬 but I don't like the wonky dips, rain and missing bits and gaps. It feels dangerous x
Oww sorry to hear about the crutches!
@@LondoncycleroutesI know it's annoying. Lime bikes are 35kg! When shopping for my bike 15kg was too heavy. I got a WD one. So I should feel okay, maybe I could do these turns, but personally I'm more likely to go a busier route and avoid them. Not cause I want busy but even the turning into my road gives me anxiety, it's raised to see better? I hate it. Wonky, tiles, rain, grippy yuk add pedestrians and traffic is enough to make me feel queasy. Lol so not up for this today. Yeah my can't do it may be how non cyclists feel x
Another area is Battersea High Street that should be a great cut thru but every entrance & exit. I was just thinking about the dips, there is one there why aren't they concreted smooth ramp that buggies can also use. I don't like awkward angles and bricks which crumble and leave gaps like the death traps around victoria coach station x
Unfamiliar 2-stage turns are very confusing!
God I hate Kensington and Chelsea council.
They are pretty bad!