“Many cyclists will enjoy a quieter, less polluted route, but many others want the directness and speed of the main roads” says Green Assembly Member Jenny Jones as the planned ‘superhighway’ route 1 from Tottenham to Liverpool will result in no safety improvement on main roads.
Jenny Jones has questioned whether the Mayor’s new cycling scheme will count as a ‘superhighway’, as it has virtually no ‘on road’ segregation and Transport for London state that it has “minimal impact on traffic operations over its 11km length”. Plans for superhighway route 1 from Tottenham to Liverpool Street show that “the majority of the route runs along quiet borough roads and without a requirement for significant engineering interventions.”
The proposed Cycling Superhighway 1 will see no improvement to major routes such as the A10 in South Tottenham as pictured above.
Jenny Jones said:
“The Hackney scheme is a great quiet way, but it is not a superhighway. Giving cyclists the choice of a good route along residential roads is welcome, but the Mayor needs to fix the main roads and junctions which he controls on the parallel route. Many cyclists will enjoy a quieter, less polluted route, but many others want the directness and speed of the main roads. We have to make both choices safer.”