Damnation! Tower Bridge To Be Shut
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36427337
That will be a real pain in the backside :evil:
Will now have to fight my way to London Bridge and struggle over with all the other hordes
My nice simple, empty of cyclists, moderately free from traffic and more importantly traffic lights route will be denied for 3 months. It will probably add 10 mins at least to my journey and why they do it in the run up to winter as the nights are drawing in and the weather more inclement as opposed to summer, I don't know :roll:
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That will be a real pain in the backside :evil:
Will now have to fight my way to London Bridge and struggle over with all the other hordes
My nice simple, empty of cyclists, moderately free from traffic and more importantly traffic lights route will be denied for 3 months. It will probably add 10 mins at least to my journey and why they do it in the run up to winter as the nights are drawing in and the weather more inclement as opposed to summer, I don't know :roll:PS - Swear filter took c0ck and made it fool! LOL
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From http://www.londontraffic.org/towerbridge/
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You're going to love the motorbikes and mopeds in the bus and cycle lane its a hoot.
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Depends on the time of day, but at peak tourist hour it takes much more than 10 minutes to walk over and theres no space to push a bike.
London Bridge approach is also rather bad because it gets jammed with traffic at the lights by the station - Southwark bridge isn't much further and probably faster unless one has a relaxed attitude to being squashed between a bus and a taxi.
https://tfl.gov.uk/status-updates/major ... his-page-2
I notice that the "alternative" suggested cycle route pushes a cyclist over to Southwark Bridge if coming from the south/east? Whilst I notice the suggested routes run opposite to that of cars, I can only imagine that not a lot of people are actually going to trek over to Southwark Bridge rather than use London Bridge - probably an extra mile/10 mins to your journey.
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if you do that twice a day 25 days a month for 3 months .. that's an extra 1500 minutes of cycling .. or 25 hours extra in the saddle
if you were to get out the saddle and go for it amoungst the traffic and could average errr .. lets say 20mph, you would have cycled 500 miles more, at effort
that is training !
it also seems a lot ... are my numbers right
edit: no they are wrong .. for the milage anyway .. I don't know the milage, I was assuming 20mph for 10 mins ..... I guess though 10mins extra is about 5mph in London
edit 2: ... ok .. that's 25hours of trackstand practice
I was approaching it literally as if I got to the point the road is blocked and then had to turn off. But its the extra over London Bridge to use Southwark Bridge if approaching from Jamaica Road, which a lot of SE people do. Roughly 1 mile extra for London Bridge vs 1.9 if using Southwark
Whatever, its a cr@p suggestion for people coming from SE of Tower Bridge
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Me too !
Initially didn't find this thread after a search :?
I originally posted this in Commuting General:
The City of London Corporation is planning major essential maintenance works to Tower Bridge from Saturday 1 October to Friday 30 December 2016. This means that cyclists will not be able to cycle across the bridge in either direction during this time. The bridge will be open for pedestrians except for on three weekends. Theoretically cycle commuters could just dismount and push their bikes across the bridge as pedestrians.
TFL has advised a diversion route for cyclists and this is what I want to discuss and get some feedback about.
Here is a link to the map illustrating the diversion for cyclists: http://content.tfl.gov.uk/tower-bridge- ... ersion.pdf
The diversion for northbound cyclists sends them over Southwark Bridge and then back east along what the map claims is Cycle Super-Highway 3 (CS3). TFL's site claims that CS3 runs from Barking and ends at Tower Gateway (http://content.tfl.gov.uk/cs3-barking-tower-gateway.pdf)which contradicts the diversion maps claims that CS3 runs as far as Southwark Bridge.
Is anybody, who travels along this stretch of Upper Thames St, able to confirm if CS3 does in fact run as far as Southwark Bridge?
My second concern is over the diversion for southbound cyclists. The map directs cyclists from Tower Gateway, westbound, along Lower Thames Street. It then requires the cyclists to turn right across a lane of traffic, northbound, towards the Monument in order to cross London Bridge in a southbound direction.
Is anyone able to confirm if there are a set of traffic lights at this point to facilitate the safe crossing of cyclists at this point on Lower Thames Street.
My final concern is over the extra distance northbound cyclists are expected to cover compared to motorists. While northbound cyclists are expected to travel westbound as far as Southwark Bridge before crossing, motorists are directed northbound across London Bridge. Given the physical nature of cycling I can see plenty of people (including myself) opting to ignore the diversion signs and crossing north and south via London Bridge. I'm not sure why TFL have not taken the physical nature of cycling into account when devising the diversions.
Does anybody know the best way to feedback to TFL specifically about these diversion for the Tower Bridge closure?
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Is anybody, who travels along this stretch of Upper Thames St, able to confirm if CS3 does in fact run as far as Southwark Bridge?
Yes it does. this is the much vaunted revamped superhighway that goes on all the way along embankment, past parliament square etc. However, watch out for city workers/texters who will saunter out in front of you without a care in the world
Is anyone able to confirm if there are a set of traffic lights at this point to facilitate the safe crossing of cyclists at this point on Lower Thames Street.
I can't recall exactly as there are literally dozens of sets of lights along that stretch but the superhighway is on the right hand side of the road anyway so you are only crossing other cyclists and not the main traffic. My personal preference is to turn right earlier than that at the Hung, Drawn & Quartered pub and head along Great Tower Street that runs into Eastcheap and approach London Bridge from that way. Much easier.
Does anybody know the best way to feedback to TFL specifically about these diversion for the Tower Bridge closure?
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Take a few test rides and try it out dude.
Carrying my bike down the stairs, having to walk it through the tunnel and then carry it up the stairs at the other end would probably add a big time penalty to my commute. It would likely be quicker to head over London Bridge instead.
May give it a try on one occasion for comparision.
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May give it a go this evening just for old times sake.