🚲 The best way to cycle from Waterloo to Chelsea

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Жыл бұрын

You can cycle from Waterloo station south to the river to Chelsea in west central London more or less entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 5.2km long (3.2 miles) and makes use of Cycleway 3 and various quiet backstreets.
The journey takes under 20 minutes to ride, which is a bit quicker than the same trip by public transport. By Tube you have to change trains.
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@eBoard3R Жыл бұрын

🤙🏼 *One of my favourite routes,* mainly because of the nicely segregated parts 🤙🏼

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Wish we had more!

@mrigennegi6524 Жыл бұрын

Another nice video. There surely cannot be that many more car drivers than cyclists in K&S.

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Yes they’re just a lot bigger!

@renancesararaujo6911 Жыл бұрын

Great video! and this route is a real find since it is K & C.

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Very unusual to be able to cycle there Hah

@j.c.7780 Жыл бұрын

Absolutely love the little anecdote about "The Courier" and the wands outside Buckingham Palace! Extremely geeky little fact I'm going to point out to people next time I watch it

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Hahah I’m glad, I will have to tell my partner and she was slightly bemused by me pausing and rewinding the film when we saw it the other day!

@leereilly7667 Жыл бұрын

Pavillion Road, is so named as there used to be a Victorian sports club on the site (the Princes Club). Middlesex played cricket there regularly before moving to Lord's. The land was sold of for building and sport stopped sometime in the 1880s.

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Good knowledge! Wish I’d had time to talk about it but was too busy gushing over the pedestrianisation…

@Antinumeric Жыл бұрын

I wish it were possible for TFL or the Mayor to force Kensington and Chelsea to actually build cycle infrastructure. The CS3 to C9 gap down kensington high street is an absolute joke.

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

It technically is - basically the mayor can take over the road and make it a ‘red route’. But it requires the sign off of the transport Secretary. So maybe when Labour are in government…

@maxdonaldson861 Жыл бұрын

The risk is that it juat generates more resentment toward cyclists among local residents and business owners. That's why their Tory council took down a cycle lane on Kensington High Road in 2020 only 7 weeks after they put it up, despite the fact that it was put up in response to a drive from the Tory government to promote cycle lanes. However, in reality, less than half a percent of the borough's population had complained, most businesses were closed at the time and road works were causing congestion that was preventing the impact of the cycle lane from being assessed.

@beaumontluke Жыл бұрын

On Constitution Hill alongside Buckingham Palace the continuous barrier is there because the cycle track used to be a horse riding lane. I imagine the barrier stopped horses and pedestrians coming into contact. People didn't walk up the horse route because it was made of sand, now they do because it's the same material as a pavement.

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

interesting! I know there’s a horse ride in Hyde park as well still I wonder if they have similar barriers

@beaumontluke Жыл бұрын

@@Londoncycleroutes take a look at Rotten Row in Hyde Park, the barrier between the pedestrian & cycle lane and the sandy horse lane is exactly the same

@a1white Жыл бұрын

I know what you mean about the other side of Westminster bridge. I tried to cycle down the protected lane last Saturday afternoon. It was absolutely full of people. Even constantly ringing my bell I couldn’t make progress for people walking and standing in it. Not sure what they can do about it. In the past that lane was always blocked by pedicabs. Not sure which is worse! 😅

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

It’s absurd, they really have to fix it

@filou5835 Жыл бұрын

Thanks @London cycle routes for this new delivery, still working with your vid' to build a mindset B for a French biker to manage to ride a bike in London 🥰. It helps really a lot 🙏 thanks from our tiny team 🐶 + 🤓

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the kind comment and hello to monsieur chien! 🐶

@scorah73 Жыл бұрын

Nice route - I've used something similar through Lowndes Square for a while, although yours looks quieter than mine. Would love to see a route from Hyde Park to Wandsworth Bridge/Parsons Green. I think I have an ok route through Brompton Cemetery but interested to see if you can do better :)

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Great idea I’ll have a look!

@zero-wastecycling Жыл бұрын

Another great video! I'm looking forward to exploring some of these routes.

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Best of luck! Thanks for watching

@thomasgibbs-murray7693 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for a new route - wasn't aware of the section leading down south out of Hyde Park to Sloan Square! Not exactly relevant to this route / video , but really hope the changes to Old Bethnal Green Road seen in one of your other videos (the kind that Chelsea and Kensington could really benefit from) dont get reversed by the current Tower Hamlets Council - would be a real great shame if they did. Love the Videos btw!

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Completely agree about tower hamlets! I did Shoreditch-Walthamstow the other week to hopefully galvanise at least someone to reply to the consultation! It will be an absolute disaster if it goes. Also, thank you for your generous support by the way! 🙏

@maxdonaldson861 Жыл бұрын

Very familiar with most of this route; it would be nice to see the rarely used road next to the cycle lane along the edge of Hyde Park be repurposed, perhaps by opening up the cycle lane or by using it for roller blading lessons and stuff like the space in front of the statue of Prince Albert.

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s a great idea, it’s currently just a bit strip of road but could be used for something cool!

@Matt-ln1zl Жыл бұрын

The Citymapper bike time was off by a lot. Have you ever considered working for Citymapper to improve their bike routes?

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

If they ask!

@fToo 8 ай бұрын

@5:33 "pedestrians who've picked the wrong side" ... with the short daylight hours at this time of year, and the rather feeble streetlights along here (presumably to avoid causing light pollution in Buck House gardens) ... pedestrians are mostly to be found in the cycle lane at the moment ... and who can blame them!

@Londoncycleroutes 8 ай бұрын

Yes indeed!

@ladylove3636 Жыл бұрын

I wondered what way you would go as south Bank to home is one I do often, the bollards by st Thomas are proper annoying. At big Ben it's always a choice along the Thames Inc the scary roundabout or thru the park. And if thru the park via Victoria which I don't actually mind! Or up constitution hill. I don't like the lights at the palace at all. And just stick to the road and I prefer just going before the traffic around the the Belgravia entrance, it's lively for 10 seconds. That crossing into the park is too fiddly for my tastes but I do go through there on the way back from the pub in Mayfair. I don't use the cycle lane, same gate and generally pop to Waitrose just on the left and then home around Sloane Square which I don't mind too much either you did good with pavilion rd it's usually BUSY and getting across Sloan's avenue x

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Definitely get what you mean about the lights at the palace, also they’ve been broken when I went around the other day!

@ladylove3636 Жыл бұрын

@@Londoncycleroutes glad its not just me, its what I wanted to pay attention to when I saw you heading that way, I never know when to cycle going right, but maybe when turning left maybe not going on the cycle path means I cut across the traffic, I mostly go via victoria, its not actually too bad, the first right at victoria has two options for left, a cycle cut thru - bit tight & odd timings, so I dodge traffic on the bend & head straight to SS. All that bit feels bumpy tho... x

@ladylove3636 Жыл бұрын

SO I either turn Right with the cabs, or right at the bottom after the coach station, its a fun sweep down mostly, the back route is narrow, bumpy & waiting for traffic, the main road oft quieter??? x

@pfscpublic Жыл бұрын

Yes, that's a good safe route although I must admit I always take my life into my hands and cross into Chapel Street (from Grosvenor Place) to Belgrave Square after leaving Constitution Hill, old habits and cyclists die hard!

@ladylove3636 Жыл бұрын

It's fun!!! I sweep around to Grosvenor Crescent and down as I'm not especially a fan of right turns, you just have to beat the traffic heading north 😬😬😬 speed up and hope the lights don't change. 5 more seconds and it would be great x

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Interesting, I have to say I cycled on grosvenor place when they closed C3 during the jubilee and it was terrifying! Not familiar with chapel st itself though

@lemelleiur Жыл бұрын

Hello, can I ask you to make a route from stratford to westminister pls

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

Yes definitely! Will put it on list to do soon

@lemelleiur Жыл бұрын

@@Londoncycleroutes Thanks very much for commenting, I realised now I don't actually need directions from Stratford to west minister. If you want to do it then that's great but you don't need to now! I have got a cycle route (Westminster to Battersea Power Station) I don't need a video but I wondered if you know how to get there? Thanks! (Sorry!)

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

@@lemelleiur Westminster bridge, C5 down royal street, follow C5 all the way to Courland Grove, union Grove, Thessaly road! and you're there if you're brave you can go down Nine Elms lane which is a bit tricker but more direct

@lemelleiur Жыл бұрын

@@Londoncycleroutes Thanks a lot!

@johnmcshane4515 Жыл бұрын

I agree K& C terrible for cyclists ! Kensington High St is the worst .

@ladylove3636 Жыл бұрын

Kings road heading west between worlds end and the cycle path - 4 lanes of traffic no space for bikes not a mm. Old Brompton road, Cromwell road by the hospital, none of it's good is it except for the cycle light behind Gloucester road to get you across to the bit South of Kensington high Street x

@Londoncycleroutes Жыл бұрын

It really needs sorting, such a big gap in the network

@a1white Жыл бұрын

Funny that all the worst boroughs for cycling in London, K&C, Bromley, Bexley have one thing in common 🤔