this is possibly the start of a revolution in UK cycling.

Everyman and his dog, from taxi companies, to lorry operators to the RAC will try to kill it dead though – they have massive lobbying power…so to get it through it needs a groundswell of support from cyclists to make it happen.

in Sesame street style: today the word for the day is : ambitious

I have mixed feelings about separation from the main carriageways. I’m not sure its the right answer.

Noiice, Parliment Sq free of trafic at the junction going South over the Bridge..??

Never gonna appen 🙄

I think that infrastructure is only a minor part of the problem. Greater education and a change of attitude are going to be far harder to implement.
A friend of mine is a traffic engineer for TFL so we’ve been talking about this for a while. This is the start of grander ideas and there is a lot of good intention to shift Londoners onto bikes – this isn’t just a token effort from TFL but I do think they have got an uphill battle…

As for the segregation, I hope it works and is used as intended. Obviously, there will be some that will still choose to use the main carriageway to maintain higher speeds but it gives people the choice to move out of traffic if they wish. Even if it only saves one life a year it’ll be worth it.
I’d like to see people using the Sustrans routes more too. I live and work in Croydon so only need to walk to work but on times that I go into London by bike, I use the Sustrans routes through parks and up to Greenwich.
There are people that I work with who could come to work by bike and often say that they would but the “roads are too dangerous”. I explained to one of them about Sustrans routes and how they can get here without going on a main road, even showing them a map but they still choose to come by car and then moan about traffic…

Mixed feelings about doing something that looks kinda Dutch?
OK it’s on;y a few roads, but I’ve certainly posted on threads on here about making a single 2-way segregated bike bit on one side, rather than trying to force 2 narrow lanes on each side. Even the bit where the bike lane goes behind the bus stops looks Dutch too.
Have to start somewhere.

The revolution has been quietly happening for years and the numbers now are too big to ignore. Thing is, London CAN do this – taking lanes away from traffic is not *that* radical, they did it for the Olympics (almost overnight, whole lanes were made one-way, unique for Olympic Traffic etc).

London coped. Do the same but take a whole lane out, put some dividers down to stop cars encroaching and there you have one bike lane!

OK I know it’s much more complicated than that in reality but it’s not going to result in London coming to a total standstill as the naysayers are predicting.