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Bus Stop M bypass status: five months after works were substantially complete, it's still closed (unless some civilian temporarily moves the orange barriers out of the way)
Will everyone in Bow be given a day off when everything is finished?
No doubt Thames Water will be along to dig it all up again within a few days.
As a cyclist I am looking forward to it being finished but they certainly are taking their time about it!
I do appreciate the works updates with pictures.

This is the kind of stuff that's really difficult to find out officially. The Embankment cycleway, whilst officially still closed, is perfectly usable for most of its length. This lulls the unsuspecting into thinking that e.g. some bus stop bypasses in Bow might also be usable - until we get our regular updates explaining otherwise.

Looking forward to the day that everything is finished and safe for wheeled visitors - I expect I'll find out from here first!
Entire Road closed last night and heavy plant in operation despite people trying to sleep!
I was quite impressed at how quickly they've been resurfacing sections of the road - walked past at around midnight last night and they'd dug up most of the road - by this morning the new surface was down, smooth and lines painted.
As a cycle commuter who uses this road every day I am simultaneously looking forward to this opening and also dreading it.

On the positive side, I'm looking forward to having a much safer journey into and out of work - I have experienced a couple of "punish passes" where cars pass too close on purpose along this road, so will be happy to be away from these nutters!
But, I do fear that come the summer months when we see "summer cyclists" come out, the effective space for cyclists has been reduced from almost one whole bus lane the entire length of the road, to what amounts to half a lane along that same road.

In either case I look forward to DG's next cycle count along here in a couple months after it's been finished. Then maybe another one +6 months and +1 year from finishing. See if the "build it and they will come" mantra proves true for cycling too.
Meanwhile, on the north south superhighway, it appears to be officially open now to three quarters of the way across Blackfriars Bridge - although people have been on officially using for a couple of weeks already.
(There were people in hi-vis supervising its use, signs warning pedestrians crossing the cycle path to reach the bus stop, and even a temporary ramp, which definitely wasn't there yesterday, to ease your passage off the kerb at the point the cycle path temporarily ends.

The junction of the north end is not complete now so you are forced back into the road at the aforementioned ramp (and can't actually access the cycle path southbound yet) but all in all it seems that the EW contractors could learn a few lessons from the NS ones
Just noticed at the weekend they've added a loading bay right outside our flat, straight across the road from the petrol station - they still haven't put up the sign to say when the loading period is going to be - if it's during the night I'm gonna kick off
@jim
Somewhere in the council's website (no doubt - pace Douglas Adams - in the basement, (where the light has gone; and so have the stairs), in a locked filing cabinet in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying "Beware of the Leopard") will be the traffic order authorising the loading restriction and giving its hours of operation. You may even find the statutory notice that must have been posted prior to authority being given.

(Of course, the authorisation will be a permission to restrict loading - i.e to fine people who stop at other times or simply use the bay for parking. Without such authority, anyone would be able to use it with impunity at any time.
It seems the folks at Tfl have been reading you again. They tweeted a link to the following earlier on.

https://tfl.gov.uk/status-updates/major-works-and-events/cycle-superhighway-2-travel-advice?cid=cs2upgrade
...or they might have tweeted that link because they've just announced five more overnight road closures over the next week.
Didn't realise those closures were new. I assumed they were just reminding people about them.
Silly me!
CS6 now complete to the middle of Blackfriars Bridge - although someone needs to tell the dozy taxi driver who nearly wiped me out by turning across it right in front of me this afternoon.
better signage needed - re-educating taxi drivers being a lost cause.
Like Landy, I view with trepidation the very narrow lane that we have been left to cycle in. It could have been designed so much better to give us a bus lane-wide route.

I have been cycling from Newham to the west end for many, many years and never really felt threatened as we had a lovely wide bus lane to cycle in. The only scary bit was going over the Bow Flyover, which TfL declined to use as the most sensible CSH route.

So now I have to share the tiny strips of segregated cycle lane with, to be charitable, other cyclists of all scary levels of experience... And STILL have to nearly die every day to use the Bow Flyover.










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