please empty your brain below
"They're building a pedestrian crossing at the Bow Roundabout. THEY'RE ACTUALLY BUILDING A PEDESTRIAN CROSSING AT THE BOW ROUNDABOUT! Some of us thought this day would never come."

At the next junction along at "Old Ford" we were promised signalled pedestrian crossing facilities when they installed the traffic lights at the junction just prior to the Olympic Games, it was in fact part and parcel of the planning application to install the traffic lights but four years later and we are still waiting, BUT, following my most recent enquiry I have been informed that once all the works are completed at Bow roundabout they will commence the installation of our much needed and long awaited pedestrian crossings at the Old Ford junction. like you DG I will believe it when I see it.

Fishislandskin | 14.01.16 - 7:34 a.m. | #

Cycling through here is a nightmare at the moment with new restrictions every day. I always come through in the dark so it's nice to see your photos and see what we'll actually be getting.

Paul Draper | 14.01.16 - 8:54 a.m. | #

Well, at least isn't all about bus stops this time.

Bow Again | 14.01.16 - 9:16 a.m. | #

"This is it! This is what's going to kill me!" (Phoebe on hearing Ross droning on about dinosaurs on a day when a mystic has predicted her death).

| 14.01.16 - 9:22 a.m. | #

Para 5: "It's either wasteful over-engineering, a sledgehammer to crack a nut, or an inspired experimental design that finally prioritises the cyclist."
No, not inspired, just experimental.
Come to think of it, one could probably shorten that, to just mental.

RogerW | 14.01.16 - 9:37 a.m. | #

Why are TfL cycle lanes blue? Round here they're red - and liable to dump you at inconvenient places, usually where there's loads of traffic.

Bronchitikat | Homepage | 14.01.16 - 10:13 a.m. | #

I think it was branding. Barclay bikes were blue and so was the CSH.

Paul Draper | 14.01.16 - 10:15 a.m. | #

Cyling superhighways may well follow the motorway box schemes of the early 1970's. Just too expensive and disruptive to roll out throughout London. CS2 may well be the westway, one of the few bits that were built before the mania subsided. Or maybe it will all be dug up again in a decade for driverless car lanes.

coffin dodger | 14.01.16 - 10:19 a.m. | #

Paul Draper,

A mistaking of cause and effect. Blue is a generally recognised colour for cycle lanes. Go to Copenhagen and they will be the same shade of blue. The colour probably provided an additional enticement to Barclays hoping (initially) that the cycle lanes would be associated with them.

Pedantic of Purley | 14.01.16 - 10:31 a.m. | #

I still think your solution, which involved no extra lights at all, would have worked better.

"A11 closed" - what, all the way to Norwich?

timbo | 14.01.16 - 10:36 a.m. | #

OMG: nightmare. How long did it take Barnes Wallis to design his bouncing bomb, get a squadron formed and trained, and the operation carried out? A matter of a very few months I believe!

Dave | 14.01.16 - 2:17 p.m. | #

DG the Gallows Corner roundabout and flyover is due to get a revamp in the near future, can you report on this TfL job when it starts please

Bob | 14.01.16 - 3:06 p.m. | #

The shades of blue used for the cycle lanes and by Barclays are quite different.

And, hurray for due process - I first complained to the council, and to local councillors, about the lack of pedestrian crossings around the Bow Flyover when I lived on the Bow Bridge Estate in 1982/3.

Blue Witch | Homepage | 14.01.16 - 5:07 p.m. | #

@coffin dodger. And how would driverless car lanes solve London's chronic traffic congestion?
I'm pleased we're getting better cycling infrastructure but I cannot understand why the works along the A11 are taking so long.

IslandDweller | 15.01.16 - 7:50 a.m. | #











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