🚲 A very nice way to cycle from Archway to Tottenham Court Road
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- You can cycle from Archway in north London to Tottenham Court Road in central London, entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 8.3km long (5.2 miles) and makes use of parts of the historic London Cycle Network 14 route as well as Cycleway 50 and the protected lanes on Tavistock Place.
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Well this is so funny: At Tavistock Square you are overtaken by a red jacketed man on a Cube bike. That's me! I was cycling from Kings Cross to Covent Garden yesterday morning. Thank you for my 15 seconds of fame!
haha hello, what a coincidence! I remember admiring your luggage rack game!
Lovely ride, trips like this and so many others couldn't have been done to such a high "quiet streets and protected cycle lanes" standard when this channel was first created. Nice to see how far we've come and how much further we have to go yet in this city :)
agree. I’d be curious to see a video bringing together these routes as they probably make up a pretty decent network now that you can use to make your own alternative routes by joining various bits up. If you’re willing to occasionally get off to walk to cross some busy roads I bet there is actually decent ‘quiet’ coverage now in most of london.
Similarly a ‘black spot’ video would be good where there are obvious missing parts
yes it's been something to see the city evolve, if not always as fast as I'd like!
I couldn't agree more. It's with great envy as well as 'getting to know the parts of London' that I've never had the opportunity to explore in my prior sojourns there. Even parts that I'm familiar with from almost two decades ago near the end of the trip, (Tottenham Court Rd up to King's Cross area), look far more inviting to cyclists now than they did then.
This trip time would have been multiples greater for me, not because I'm slow (I'm actually a very avid distance cyclist), but I see so much to explore along the way.
I'm loving these vids.
Another brilliant video! Thank you! I cycled the part from Camden Town past St Pancras last week for the first time and it was a really pleasant ride
it's a great little bit
Thanks!
thank you, very kind!
Brilliant to see how efficient the humble bicycle is as a viable form of transport around the capital. I rarely visit, but came to visit my brother recently in Earls court and took my bike on the train. It was fantastic getting around on the bike compared to where I live in Manchester. Your videos should be used for publicity by Tfl in persuading even more drivers out of their cars.
Another great video!
thank you!
Bedford Square is technically one-way with no cycle contra on the carriageway. Not sure if you missed that you're supposed to go left and along the funky-colored space on the square before rejoining at the end. Directional arrows are on the ground so wayfinding isn't ideal, although the space is wide enough it isn't usually an issue to avoid pedestrians.
Obviously no vehicles when you went down, but could be times when doing that could create conflict with taxis, delivery vans, and construction vehicles, especially when the parking spaces are full.
Bayley Street is two-way for cycles. There used to be a blue cycle symbol on the bollard next to the Santander bikes as well, but it disappeared a while ago. Can still see it on Google Maps from a couple years ago when there was demolition work going on.
oh yes good spot on Bedford Square, that's a very confusing way to do contraflow cycling! easy to miss
Barry White vibes!
haha I've been a bit ill!
@3:41 / 17:01 The chamfered curb to delineate between cycle and pedestrian space is an excellent way to separate the two most of the time, but to still leave the option in a tight or emergency situation to cross-over to avoid an incident. Ditto later when you commented on the chamfered concrete barriers, albeit you'd have to' use a much tighter angle of incidence to climb over them. Even if you did go down, at least the hard corners are missing when you impact.
Yes it’s an important detail!
Nice ride!
thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video! Would be really handy to see Drayton Park station to Victoria Coach station please!
this should mostly be doable! though I might start a bit further up by Finsbury Park and the very last stretch into the coach station doesn't really have a comfortable way I think
@@Londoncycleroutesooh nice one thanks! I’ll keep my eyes peeled 😁
Nice route! Well done👍🙂
Some really good tips in there. Do those traffic light sensers for bikes not get tested, or do they just become less accurate over time?
I think they have quite a narrow beam so they don't always get the whole waiting area, or at least they're set up like that often
Amazing videos, would love to see a route from Bermondsey to Brixton if you get a chance 😊
someone else requested Herne Hill to Bermondsey recently so I'll probably get around to this soon!
Do you have a cold or a new mic? Your voice sounds deeper
a cold haha!
@@Londoncycleroutes Get well soon!
Excellent video again!
Thank you!
i find getting the tube from Archway station to Tottenham Court Road station is a very quick trip and checking google maps it tells me it's 13 minutes on the Northern line direct! Nonetheless, the bike route is very much appreciated. Thanks for the videos!
It’s 13 mins if you live on the northern line platforms at Archway and want to get to the platforms at TCR and leave exactly when a train is coming! but I always use the citymapper timings at 9am on a weekday from the point the video starts to where it ends - so 30 mins includes a short walk to the station, getting in and out and an average wait for a train at peak time. It’s still pretty generous as the video starts and ends near both stations and people may have to go further afield!
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Great video as always. One slight route optimisation suggestion: After the crossing at St Pancras/Euston Road, I usually prefer to turn right immediately onto Bidborough St instead of later at Leigh Street. Bidborough St is a bit wider than Leigh St and practically traffic-free. Ok Cartwright Gardens isn't terribly wide either, so I guess road width is a toss-up, or is a point slightly in favour of Leigh St. Nevertheless, with Bidborough St, you have one less traffic light + zebra crossing to think about, so it's also marginally faster
That sounds sensible to me!
3:36 damn that kid's run is competitive with public transport
Lmao
Hi, what sort of camera and mount do you use ? I ask because after recently being doored by a car I"m looking at getting something to record all my rides for safety/insurance reasons. Thanks.
I've got a GoPro Hero 11 black and I mount it on the handlebars with a fairly generic mount I got off amazon
I'll have to do this when I'm feeling adventurous. I've cycled Camden south, so I must've gone north 🤣 but my favourite vegan Chinese is or was at Archway, I've not been in years now so this looks great especially over the bridge x
the closed bridge is really helpful for avoiding the main road!
From Camden Sq/Agar Grove take Camley St (pedestrianised entrance at junction of Murray St and Agar Grove) to Midland Rd rather than Royal College St.
that works too - it might even the corner a little bit actually
@@Londoncycleroutes Love the channel, thanks for all the pedals.
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Good vid
thank you for tuning in!
At 9'30" you mention it's (understandably) not possible to cover all routes requested. Just a thought, but where this is due to a lack of suitable cycling infrastructure, or some particular 'killer issue' (could be a dreadful major junction or an unmitigated recent development), it might prove just as useful to produce the odd roundup of a few such non-starters, in the (perhaps vain) hope someone from the local authority in question may be watching, whether a decision maker or a councillor irritated by the unability to let kids cycle safely to/from a local school (thereby potentially removing much car traffic and gaining said councillor votes from happy happy constituents - d'ya see wot I did there? 🙂)
I can hear kids in the background haha🤣
haha yes I couldn't find a fully quiet time to time to record this one