🚲 The easy way to cycle from Battersea Power Station to Clapham
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- čas přidán 11. 05. 2024
- You can cycle from Battersea Power Station in south London to Clapham, entirely on quiet streets and protected cycle lanes.
The route is 3.2km long (2 miles) and makes use of protected cycle lanes on Battersea Park Road and Thessaly Road, as well as quiet filtered streets like Larkhall Rise.
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Your videos make me want to cycle everywhere in London
So pleased! Get out there and enjoy it
Bingo! For my, and I'm sure some others' more clarified thoughts though, "everywhere" would then preclude the incredible benefit of this channel, and that's the routes that avoid the areas in London, most notably the roads, that we choose to avoid. To perhaps catch a good part of your gist, this channel shows the now abundant ways to get from areas of London to other areas, and do it safely and enjoyably.
Even just 'going along for the ride' with the vids is therapeutic and satisfying. And tugging at my ex-Londoner heartstrings.
@@stephensaines7100 you're welcome back any time haha! too kind
*Was walkin around the area a few weeks back and was surprised to see how much lovely cyclin areas it had*
🤙🏽🤟🏽🤙🏽
Another great video 👌🏽
Yeah I was surprised how much thought had been given to cycling on the outdoor public realm
The underground cycle parking is a nightmare! Impossible to lift the bike to the upper racks, unless you either have a weightless road bike, or are Hulk! It's really massive as well, and i never saw it full. Inwas tenpted to take a photo and put it on social media, but I thought it would attract bike thieves.
That’s sensible thinking! Yeah it’s a shame because they clearly spent a lot of money on it but they didn’t get the details right that wouldn’t cost them much more
[The underground cycle parking is a nightmare! Impossible to lift the bike to the upper racks,]
Wow!...This!
I'm in rude shape for my age, still well able to do over 70kms on a day-jaunt, weather, roads and mindset permitting, but I had a life-changing accident almost two years ago to today. It took out my right shoulder, irreparably, and I declined the offer by a world class ortho surgeon to do a reverse full replacement. Long story short, therapy terminated in my joining a gym, and other than lifting weight above the waist, I have almost full range of motion for that arm. It doesn't stop me cycling in the least, in fact cycling is excellent for it.
But here's the thing, and this pertains to many of the aging cycling population, even able to do a 100km jaunt: Without a fully functioning shoulder, lifting the bike over a fence, or as you indicate, onto an upper bike rack, is impossible. It's only a partial disability, but one that many designers seem oblivious to. I'm fortunate in being so athletic, but for others with the same 'shortcoming' it's a real barrier to a lot of infrastructure, steps, high kerbs and parking stands.
@@stephensaines7100 ouch yeah I think designers just don't think of very common situations people find themselves in like this! I think of myself as a very able bodied rider but when I put a baby seat on my bike as well, all of a sudden, dismounting is tricky and dropped kerbs are essential, and the bike is definitely not being lifted up anywhere! accessibility matters
Really great route! I've finally started using Clapham Manor Rd~Brommell's Rd to reach the common instead of Rectory Grove thanks to these videos and it's a huge improvement. Thank you! As for Battersea Power Station... for a contemporary heritage-led development it doesn't compare very well to others (for example King's Cross). Just not very many reasons to visit beyond a few brands... I wish it was otherwise 🍀
yeah King's Cross is definitely better done, I agree. Coal Drops Yard in the beginning did have a similar issue with being mostly very expensive shops I think, though it's possibly broadened out a bit more recently
I think your map at the end of this video shows well one of the main challenges of making London more cycle friendly. There are a large number of railways that cross parts of London, like this part and the number of places where the people building railways put in crossings is relatively small. That generally means that car drivers want to get across the railway lines in the exact same place that cyclists or pedestrians want to cross the railway lines. It throttles everyone into the same places.
Rivers are another thing that I think forces motorists and pedestrians onto the same routes, but in this part of London, I think the on-the-top railways, are the greatest barrier to moving about. And with most London roads not being built in a grid pattern, I kind of think of South West London as a number of areas of housing development, with big roads connecting them all up.
The part of your cycle route in Wandsworth looks much better than the part of your route in Lambeth, but the "hero" of your cycle route is probably the bridge over the South London Line at 5:00 where Lambeth put in a modal filter to close the bridge to most road traffic. You mentioned cars still sneaking through, and it looks like the middle of that section has been designed so that police cars, ambulances and even fire engines can get across that bridge if necessary. (I didn't notice any sort of enforcement cameras in your video, but I suppose they could go in there to catch motorists who abuse the modal filter.)
I'm looking to the west of your route and I don't see so many good places to cross the mainlines going south from Victoria to Wandsworth Road and Clapham Junction. And I also don't see many good places for people to cross the mainlines going from Vauhall to Clapham Junction.
I think the problem here is the cartographers. The cartography on this map is designed to help car drivers find the best routes. The B Roads and A Roads are wider and given colours. It is not designed to help pedestrians and cyclists find quiet through roads. I've walked home from Central London to Wandsworth late at night, in the past. And I've generally ended up walking west along Nine Elms Lane or Wandsworth Road, as I've not wanted to end up getting trapped in side-streets. (Looking at the map your fans have made of your routes on Google, I think I was a fool to ever cross the river at Vauxhall Bridge and should have been trying to find my way to Slone Square Station and gone down the A308 from there and onto Albert Bridge Road. The District Line really does distort people's ideas of what the north bank of the Thames is like, as it does not travel in a straight line.)
If I was trying to navigate your A to B route, without a map, I would probably miss your two crossings over the railways and end up turning right at Battersea Power Station, following the road past Queenstown Road station and then go down Silverthorn Road and North Street. I must get better at improving my route knowledge for the quiet ways out of my own area, so that I don't spend too much time on main roads, if I get another bike.
On another note, I think that a campaign to ban motor vehicles from crossing Albert Bridge would be good. Battersea Bridge is close by and Albert Bridge Road is one of the roads that is blocked by the mainlines from Vauxhall to Clapham Junction. So everything that crosses Albert Bridge has to get onto one of the other roads anyway.
Some great points here - it’s unusual for Wandsworth to come out on top vs Lambeth but in this case you’re dead right in your assessment I think. Very smart points about geography too
Great video once again. You can absolutely use the cycle parking at Battersea without using a lift though. There's a ramp going down to it from the road
I think that way (kind of through the retail bit, if we’re talking about the same place) says no bikes? I may have missed another way in though
*Limehouse to Elephant and Castle* (or even the Oval) might be a challenge. That said, I'd reckon you could shave 30% of the time off compared to public transport.
Definitely doable! Will make a note
Nice route 👍🙂
Thanks very much!
I’m pretty sure your audio is always improving! 10/10 🔊
Thank you! I’m definitely taking more care over it and making occasional equipment changes!
@@Londoncycleroutes It's also your presentation. More than just rhyming off the route details, you have an entertaining commentary on events.
I Urbexed Battersea Power Station 13 yrs ago. Although I see the need to protect architecture I think realistically they should be aloud to demolish some old buildings. About 60% of the power station was 'restored' ie knocked down and rebuilt including its chimnies. Its why no one has developed Royal Victoria Dock, in Silvertown. Millennium Mills restoration turns develpers away because of the cost. Battersea was over 6 Billion to develop.
Its develpments like these though that help progress pedestrian and cycle layouts. Its easier to pitch and sell these ideas to the public by Councils as its the developers money being spent and 'our' taxes.
Must have been amazing to urbex in there while it was derelict! very jealous
Could you try between Walthamstow and old street? It’s my daily commute. I use c23 and c27 (I think), it’s a good route but I don’t know a great way through Clapton and Hackney Central other than the main roads to get to London fields
Absolutely! I think there’s definitely a good way. Will see what I can do
Another great video, Jon. Do you happen to know of any decent way from Victoria to South Kensington stations without going all the way up to Hyde Park and back down?
Sort of… there’s a mess of one way streets between the two places, almost in a grid pattern. The traffic on them isn’t that bad but it’s really easy to get lost! I couldn’t say which streets but honestly it’s probably a rare one where I might ask Google maps for cycle directions- it’ll all be more or less the same. Alternatively you could use Hyde park which isn’t a huge detour honestly
Still, those two nre tube stations have given residential landlords to hike up the rents!
Yeah I mean it’s nice to have more tube stations, possibly not where I’d put them but oh well
There's a school on Thessaly Road. Trust me, that lane is a saviour. School run drivers are the devil!
That’s really useful to know, I hadn’t considered school traffic!
1:43 what the hells going on there girl?
Interesting spot!
Yeti feet!
She left the rest of the Gruffalo costume indoors.
I don't want to be that guy, and I otherwise really enjoy your videos, but I do see you cutting corners like at 5:52 and feel it's not the best way to ride.
advice noted, thank you!
It’s best avoided tbh
It’s definitely not for everyone! (And I wish they’d built it so it was)