London Cycling Campaign

They obviously thought you like riding your bike, so you'll want to ride it for as long as possible. I'd struggle to find a more circuitous route. Three Mills is fine if you like cobbles.

Try www.cyclestreets.net It can plot routes up to 30km and it offers three options on every route; a fastest route, a quietest route and a baleanced route for optimum trade-off between speed and hostile traffic, each with thumbnail maps of juntions along the route and a height profile. It is based on open source mapping and it can learn: if ot gives a rubbish route because it has missed an obvious shortcut there is a feedback option to tell the organisers what they have missed.

In this case the fastest route is given along Kensington Road and the Strand, the quietest route is through Fulham and along the Embankment (the Thames Path route) and the balanced route goes through Notting Hill and Paddington, then along the LCN 0 Seven Stations route. All about as good as it gets for that journey.

After going through Bethnal Green, though, all three routes converge on Whitechapel Road, Bow Roundabout and Stratford High Street. My spies tell me that this is the only way into the Olympic Park at present - and at that it seems to involve walking through the Westfield shopping centre, where cycling is not allowed.

I am leading an LCC ride to the View Tube from Barnes. My route seems to be a combination of cyclestreet's fastest and slowest routes . We are riding it on a Sunday but I scouted it during the week and it is not too hairy.

The route to the ViewTube looks eminently sensible - perhaps we should tell london2012 !

I do wonder what happens at the Bow roundabout in Games time. I'll have to cross the A12 somewhere.

Very odd things are supposed to happen to the east bound connection to Stratford High Street (there's supposed to be a Games lane on the left hand side, an everything else lane next to it and a contra-flow Games Lane connecting ?MarshGate Lane back to the Bow roundabout on the outside lane of the same carriageway)

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/assets/downloads/corporate/Olympic_Park_Lee_Interchange_to_Bow_Roundabout_via_Stratford_Map_F.pdf

How many cyclists are they expecting ?

And do they all fit into the everything else lane ?

Sorry, the link to the TfL ORN consultation map got mangled.

Try this :

http://tinyurl.com/7xbanna

This post was edited by hestonlad at 09:01am 26 Jan 2012.

I'd definately head towards Bethnal Green and Victoria Park and rather than going via Bow Roundabout, apart from the proven dangers of Bow Roundabout, Bethnal Green and the park is more interesting and way more pleasant.