Our leaders want us out of our cars, on our bikes and into new homes beside Cycle Superhighways.
This weekend 100,000 cyclists, from small children with stabilisers to professional riders, will take part in the UK’s biggest festival of cycling, the Prudential RideLondon.
On Saturday a seven-mile stretch of central London will be closed to cars allowing families to bike past the capital’s landmarks in safety. This precedes Sunday’s 100-mile race which starts at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in east London, runs through the Surrey Hills and finishes on The Mall.
In some ways, this is a snapshot of life to come. With 140km of London cycle paths under construction or in planning, road-by-road the bike is being prioritised over the car.
Work started this month on Cycle Superhighway 4, a route for commuting cyclists that will run from Deptford in south-east London to Tower Bridge, with new pedestrian crossings and a redesign of Rotherhithe roundabout — a notorious accident blackspot.
It’s part of a Transport for London £2.3 billion project to expand the capital’s network of safe cycle routes to encourage more people to choose two wheels over four. This new infrastructure also fits with the political push to create healthier streets.
According to a Government report on Active Travel, published earlier this month, the modern urban crises of congestion, air pollution and climate change, physical inactivity, depression and stress can all be tackled by the simple act of walking and cycling to the shops or to work.
Plan for new homes along the Cycle Superhighways
TfL is aiming to increase the proportion of Londoners who live within 400 metres of the cycling network from nine per cent to 28 per cent by 2024. There are new residential developments well-placed along Cycle Superhighway 4.
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