Transport for London (TfL) has revealed plans for an overhaul of the Old Street Roundabout, where bicycles now make up one third of rush hour traffic. Today’s announcement comes a week after it published its Road Modernisation Plan, confirming that work will begin next year on Cycle Superhighway 1, which will have that junction at its southern end.
The Road Modernisation Plan outlines details of the £4 billion that TfL will be investing in the capital’s streets in the coming years, including £900 million due to be spent on cycling from now until 2022.
It contains a timetable of proposed works with anticipated start (subject to consultation) and finish dates, with construction of CS1 which will run from Tottenham to the City due to begin in June 2015 and be completed in April the following year.
The consultation is now open on TfL’s plans for Old Street Roundabout, which in recent years has been nicknamed Silicon Roundabout due to the number of tech firms located there and in nearby areas such as Shoreditch, with the cluster collectively known as Tech City.
The roundabout will be converted into two way traffic, with the north western arm, which leads onto City Road heading towards Oval, transformed into a pedestrian space.
TfL says cyclists now account for one third of road users at the junction during the morning rush hour, and the junction will have cycle lanes, segregated where possible, plus separate traffic lights for bike riders.
The safety of pedestrians and cyclists is a key element of the redesign; TfL says that of 44 people injured at the roundabout in road traffic collisions from February 2010 to January 2013, eight in ten were on a bike or on foot.
Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, said: “We are progressing at full steam with our plans to redesign some of London’s most dangerous junctions, and Old Street roundabout is next to be completely overhauled.
“These plans will dramatically improve safety for the thousands of cyclists and pedestrians using the junction, and also make it easier to access Tech City, which continues to nurture upcoming technology and creative talent from around the world.”
TfL says the proposals “would mean a much safer junction for cyclists, but would result in some changes in rush-hour journey times for buses, cars and coaches.”
However, it adds that most journey times would be unchanged, “with the only significant increase being to traffic heading northwest on City Road, which may take up to two minutes longer in the morning and afternoon.”
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Islington Council’s executive member for environment and transport, Councillor Claudia Webbe, said, “We welcome the TfL public consultation on improvements at the Old Street roundabout.
“Old Street is not only a valuable part of Islington but an iconic landmark of London, yet in its current form it’s not fit for purpose. Positive changes to the access and roads at Old Street are badly needed to improve safety and travel.
“The council, local residents, cyclists and businesses have long campaigned for the radical transformation to this extremely busy, complex roundabout.”
She added: “It is exciting to see this project finally coming forward, providing a new public open space and safer pedestrian and cycling routes, improving pupil access to local schools as well as enabling local residents to access new employment opportunities.
“We want local residents and businesses to have their say on the proposals, and will ensure that TfL listen very carefully to these views.”
The consultation is open until 11 January 2015, and you can find more information here.
TfL’s Road Modernisation Plan outlines the timetable for various other works to be undertaken over the years to 2021, many of them cycling specific, and with a number of others such as planned works at major junctions incorporating a significant element of cycle infrastructure.
A full list appears below, in anticipated start date order.
Project
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Start
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End
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Aldgate Gyratory
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Started
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Sep 2016
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Malden Rushett
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Started
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Jun 2015
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Oval
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Dec 2014
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Mar 2016
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Highbury Corner
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Jan 2015
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Jun 2018
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CSNS – Blackfriars
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Feb 2015
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Mar 2016
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CSNS – Elephant and Castle to Greville Street
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Feb 2015
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Mar 2016
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CS2 – Stratford to Aldgate (full route upgrade)
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Feb 2015
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Mar 2016
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CSEW – Tower Hill to Westbourne Terrace
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Apr 2015
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Mar 2016
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CSEW – Tower Gateway
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Apr 2015
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Mar 2016
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CSEW – Lancaster Gate
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Apr 2015
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Mar 2016
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CSEW – Parliament Square
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Apr 2015
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Mar 2016
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CSEW – Spur Road
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Apr 2015
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Mar 2016
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CS3 – CSEW Barking to Tower Gateway (2 discrete projects)
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Apr 2015
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Mar 2016
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CS7 – Merton to City of London (6 discrete projects)
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Apr 2015
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Mar 2016
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CS8 – Wandsworth to Westminster (Chelsea Bridge)
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Apr 2015
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Mar 2016
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CS5 – Inner (Oval to Pimlico)
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Apr 2015
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Oct 2015
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Elephant and Castle (North)
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May 2015
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May 2016
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Stockwell Gyratory
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May 2015
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Apr 2016
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CS1 – Tottenham to City of London
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Jun 2015
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Apr 2016
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CS1 – Apex (Shoreditch)
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Jun 2015
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Apr 2016
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CS11 – Including Swiss Cottage Gyratory
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Dec 2015
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Dec 2016
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Old Street Roundabout
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Dec 2015
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Dec 2016
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A205 East Sheen
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2016
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2017
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Westminster Bridge South
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Jan 2016
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Oct 2016
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Archway Gyratory
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Feb 2016
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Apr 2017
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Lambeth Bridge (North)
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Apr 2016
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Apr 2017
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Lambeth Bridge (South)
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Apr 2016
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Apr 2017
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Chiswick Roundabout/Kew Bridge Junction
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May 2016
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May 2017
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Hammersmith Broadway
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Jun 2016
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Jul 2017
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Great Portland Street Gyratory
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Jun 2016
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Feb 2018
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Brent Cross/Cricklewood
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Jun 2016
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Apr 2021
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CS4 – Tower Bridge to Deptford
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Jul 2016
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Mar 2017
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CS4 – Surrey Quays
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Jul 2016
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Mar 2017
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CS4 – Rotherhithe Roundabout
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Jul 2016
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Mar 2017
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Stratford Gyratory
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2017
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Mar 2019
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A316 London Road Roundabout
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2017
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Sep 2019
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Balham High Road
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2017
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Aug 2017
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Trinity Road/Burntwood Lane
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2017
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Sep 2019
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A24 Tooting Broadway
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2017
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Feb 2018
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CS4 (Deptford to Woolwich)
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Jan 2017
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Nov 2017
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CS4 – Woolwich Road/A102
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Jan 2017
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Nov 2017
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Wandsworth Gyratory
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Jan 2017
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Jul 2019
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Waterloo IMAX Roundabout
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Jun 2017
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Nov 2020
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CS4 (London Bridge to Tower Bridge)
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Jan 2018
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Sep 2018
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CS4 – Borough High Street/Tooley Street
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Jan 2018
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Sep 2018
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A23/A232 Fiveways Croydon
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Jan 2018
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Dec 2019
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Nags Head Gyratory (includes Seven Sisters Rd)
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Jan 2018
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Mar 2020
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Vauxhall Cross
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Feb 2018
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Dec 2019
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Kings Cross/Euston Road
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Apr 2018
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Apr 2021
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Marble Arch
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Apr 2018
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Apr 2022
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Bow Roundabout
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Jun 2018
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Jun 2020
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St Paul’s Gyratory
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Dec 2019
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Apr 2021
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