please empty your brain below
I find this aspect of the park absolutely infuriating and inexcusable.. as i'm always trying to get there from walthamstow or similar. For example to the north of the Venlodrome where the tarmac path stopped about 5m short of connecting to the existing path made it pointless to cyclists and broke the best way to get north, though i now see they've bodged in some gravel at last.

dg writes: yeah, they fixed that about three years ago.

Alistair Twin | 29.07.22 - 9:08 a.m. | #

Pedestrians are always on the lowest rung of the ladder though there has been some improvement in my country and yours.

Andrew | Homepage | 29.07.22 - 9:48 a.m. | #

Always thought that Northwall Road should be ripped up and become a bit more parkland. A 'mini forest' perhaps, buffering the A12.
(Clearly the current diversion route of the Castaway and Temple Mills Lane is coping fine!)

James Scantlebury | 29.07.22 - 10:30 a.m. | #

You can avoid that central road by going down the stairs which are a little hidden away but do at least duck under the road and technically connect both sides of the park without needing to cross a road. But it does have all the glamour of walking under a dual carriageway rather than immediately feeling like you're in a park.

The road itself should hopefully be reworked when the Westfield Avenue plans (currently in its early stages) eventually happen. I think the plan is to make each direction single lane which will help it feel less dual carriageway-like. But it will still be a road.

Sean | 29.07.22 - 12:30 p.m. | #

Did you ever notice, maybe from atop the Greenway, if the opposite end of the pedestrian subway at City Mill River has been bricked up?

Joachim | 29.07.22 - 12:56 p.m. | #

To be fair to the planners, they inherited an incredibly messy site, criss-crossed with waterways and railways, and with the A12 cutting across the top of it.

Indeed it was BECAUSE the site was such a mess that it was still empty, and available for the Olympics!

Mikey C | 29.07.22 - 1:32 p.m. | #

No easy access to the park from Leyton? From Leyton Library, walk about 1km along Ruckholt Road and then the Eastway (or catch the W15 bus) to Bus Stop L, from where you can walk up onto Eton Manor Walk, which leads straight into the north of the park.

Anonanon... | 29.07.22 - 2:32 p.m. | #

One of the recent legacy retrospective articles in the Guardian mentioned that the loop road was a bit of an afterthought, because they weren't actually expecting the bid to win - so it had to be shoehorned in later in a way that doesn't necessarily make sense ten years on. The two ramps by the Aquatic Centre that never quite met have long infuriated me, so I'm glad they're finally doing something about it.

Northwall Road occasionally gets used for filming - such as this really believable crash scene in EastEnders.

martin | 29.07.22 - 7:12 p.m. | #

If I am nearby and have a quarter of an hour I visit the pieces of the collapsed World Trade Centre near the Aquatic centre, and during 2016 I was a devoted fan volunteering altenate sundays at the meanwhile space on temple mill lane named R-Urban Wick/Mobile Garden City, a combined architects commune/community garden.

Noel | 29.07.22 - 11:38 p.m. | #

The link between Sidings Street and Montfichet Road is now open (and on OSM).

Rob | 20.08.22 - 5:40 p.m. | #











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