Save cycling in Regent's Park: petition

Nothing has been published yet as we are still at pre-consultation where the Parks are talking to stakeholders. But we know the Parks want full width cobbled raised platforms through junctions, crossings and at pedestrian islands, and that they want to use TfL's cycling budget for it as a quid pro quo for agreeing to let CS11 go through Regent's.

You're right that it's not totally flat, and I regularly get dropped on the "hill". You'd still have to be trying pretty hard to hit 30mph for more than a few metres past the Mosque if you ever come across a green light!

If I may say so, I agree 100% with your first para. It's not even as if there will be any segregation because that would not be "heritage compliant". At Buckingham Palance, the Parks were at first willing to make cyclists traverse the 4 lane gyratory or get off and push - in Regent's we just have to go through the park, which is already a nice ride and could be made even better by ANPR cameras and/or gate closures to stop rat runners.

None of this makes any sense.

Bedfordshire Clanger wrote:

Does anyone have a link to the actual plans for this? The outer ring is hardly in need of traffic calming measures. The road is not busy and is nice and wide. It hardly needs to be part of the super highway network as anyone who can use Regents Park to commute by bike already does and no special provisions to cycle on the roads there are required. The combination of quiet road, Georgian architecture and giraffes is a compelling draw for the discerning cyclist. It is a haven for cycle training in central London and was a big draw for pre-work miles for me when I lived in Hackney and worked in the West End. If they really wanted to benefit cyclists they would remove the two completely unnecessary sets of lights that govern the junctions by the mosque and on the south side entrance to the inner ring and convert the pelican crossings to zebra.

Oh, and there may not be any hills but it isn't pan flat. If you want to keep an even pace, there is a real leg burner headed north and free speed going south. Great fun. I would want to see it ruined by sleeping policemen but I'd hope that there would be provision for cyclists to avoid them.

No, it is proposed as the route of CS11, and it is proposed to misuse over £1m of public money set aside for cycling for the deliberate purpose of stopping sports cyclists training there.

We are right to complain about speeding motorists (although actually it is not a serious problem in Regent's Park, to the extent that it occurs, can be solved more effectively by gate closures, some Seimens SafeZone ANPR cameras measuring average speeds, and generally enforcing the law). There is no double standard, because cyclists aren't speeding in the park. The speed limit is and will remain 30mph limit on what is an almost pan-flat loop with traffic lights, junctions and corners.