London Bridge-Kensington Gardens Loop

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There has been a decade or more of work to develop safe, segregated cycle routes in London. What kind of possibilities has it opened up? I set out to look at Central London where most of the new cycleways are. Have stitched together a circular route that gets you around in reasonable comfort and passes lots of interesting locations.
Start 10am at London Bridge. Cross and drop down to Cycleway 3, a well-designed, segregated route. Follow this along the embankment, through Parliament Squ, past Buck house, across Hyde Park.and into Kensington Gdns. Start back past the Albert Memorial then continue over the Serpentine to Lancaster Gate. Abandon C3 there and stay in Hyde Park heading east and exiting just before Marble Arch via the cycle crossing to Stanhope P.l. Back streets (LCN5) to Crawford St where the route becomes Cycleway 27. C27 is a bit of a let-down; no segregation, no protection at junctions. However it is a (nearly) straight route. At Gower St we leave C27 and use the segregated lanes on Torrington Place eastwards, these not having a cycleway designation (LCN6). Keeping going east we join a second stretch of well designed route, Cycleway 6 and turn south to and over Blackfriars Bridge. Last segment is on C14 most of the way to London Bridge. At an easy pace we can ride this loop in 3 hours including a coffee break. Bruce Leading, 14 miles. Route at https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1qkrX4KxPAZfk9xDVDZM5tWq_oaj4kBQ&usp=sharing
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This ride is organised by Southwark Cyclists and is part of a regular programme of Saturday rides, more information at https://southwarkcyclists.org.uk/healthy-rides/. Southwark Cyclists are part of the London Cycling Campaign. This ride is organised by volunteers. If you have any feedback, good or bad, please get in touch with [email protected]. For details of LCC’s Safeguarding and other policies please see lcc.org.uk.
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This is an attempt at a Inner London Cycleway route. Showing how to put a route together that uses as much segregated cycleway as possible.

Moslly segregated cycleway. Some unsegregated sections.

Several stops a places of interest plus a coffee stop

Just yourself and your bike

First-timers welcome!