Pop Up Cycle Lanes
Summary
Camden’s pop-up lanes:
Goodsway – completed in May
Prince of Wales Rd – currently resurfacing at eastern end
York Way stage 1 – complete;
York Way stage 2 – more than half done
Chalk Farm Road – complete north of Adelaide Road
Gray’s Inn Road – preparatory work started
St Pancras Way – digging between Agar Grove and Georgiana St
Haverstock Hill – awaiting decision
Adelaide Road – awaiting funding
TfL pop-up lanes:
Euston Road lanes under threat, Hampstead Rd etc as last month
Theobalds Rd – no more news
Prince of Wales Road
Protected cycle lanes on both sides between Grafton Road and Haverstock Hill
Work on the Westbound (non-popup) lane started last November and is at last complete apart from a few small details
- Malden Road junction improvements (tightening of geometry and early release for cyclists)
- 4 bus stop bypasses
- Continuous footway at all junctions
- Cycle lane mostly behind the parking spaces
- Very good detail opposite side roads
PoW WB detail of track entry opposite Talacre Road
Approach to Bus Stop Bypass opposite Talacre Park after resurfacing
Eastbound (popup lane) almost complete
White lines and flexible bollards and shared-use bus boarders. One bus stop (outside Talacre Gardens) has not yet been constructed.
PoW Eastbound pop-up lane outside Talacre gardens
York Way phase 1 – Freight lane to Wharfdale Road: complete
Lanes with flexible bollards on both sides
Bus stops on Islington side to be improved
Junctions at Goodsway, Copenhagen Street /Handyside Street and Freight Lane to be improved in Phase 3
York Way phase 2 – Hungerford Rd to Freight Lane: good progress
- Lanes with flexible bollards on the uphill side almost complete
- No lanes downhill south of Agar Grove; north of Agar Grove lanes almost complete
- Bus stops: 2 shared use bus boarders (SUBBs) on Camden side, one complete; Islington side under design
- Market Road junction – will take out roundabout
Agar Grove SUBB looking North
Bollards on both side north of Market Rd
Chalk Farm Road and Haverstock Hill – Castlehaven Road to Prince of Wales Road
Pop up lanes on both sides between Adelaide Road and Prince of Wales Road
Haverstock Hill looking south towards the Round House
Haverstock Hill bus stop bypass N Adelaide Rd
- One bus stop bypass
- One in-line bus stop outside Haverstock School
- Work on Ferdinand Street junction started
- No pop-up lanes south of Adelaide Road
Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
Arlington Road area
Camden published the plans here. Our map shows the locations of the six filters, five of which are reducing through traffic across the green area. Buck Street is separate from the Arlington Road area.
We show photos of five of the filters (the sixth one was damaged when we were on site). They have been in place for about three weeks with the ANPR camera on the Mornington Street filter arriving last week.
We hear that the scheme is working reasonably well although some vandals have blacked out the signs at the Mornington Street filter – but Camden soon replaced them.
Buck Street filter – looking east
Mornington Street filter at Albert Street – ANPR camera
Arlington Road filter looking north
Albert Street filter from Mornington Street
We heard that the filter on Arlington Road at the junction of Delancey Street with a “No Entry” sign seemed to be understood immediately.
But the Flying Motorcycle sign for eastbound motor traffic on Jamestown Road at the junction of Arlington Road was ignored at first but things have improved since it has been recognised in Google Maps and Waze which took about two weeks.
The Mornington Street filter is to be enforced by ANPR cameras. We gather that the camera infrastructure is now in but the camera has not yet arrived. Also, there is a running battle going on between residents who have put cones out and drivers who keep moving them
No right turn at Jamestown Rd junction with Arlington Road
Jamestown Road – No Entry with cycle bypass
Around this time, advance warning signs were in place along the approach route from the west
Warning of Jamestown Road changes at Parkway/Prince Albert road junction
Warning of Jamestown Road changes at Oval Road/Gloucester Gate junction
Seven Dials
Through motor traffic has been excluded from the Seven Dials area in the day time. The details are on Camden’s website here.
There is a full closure on Monmouth Street (south) between Tower Street and Shelton Street.
And a timed closure (10-6 every day) of most of the streets in the area, with a longer closure (7-7 Mon-Sat) of Earlham Street.
Our map shows the locations of the five filters, which are reducing through motor traffic across the green area.
Timed filter – Mercer Street
Monmouth Street filter between Tower Street and Shelton Street
No Entry to Monmouth Street from Seven Dials
Healthy School Streets
Primrose Hill school, Brecknock school and Minster Road are now in operation
The Neighbourhoods of the Future scheme is delayed once again (until 2nd November).
Five more schemes are also promised for 2nd November: Haverstock and Camden School for Girls, Rhyl and Netley and Hampstead Parochial + UCS Junior. This will bring the total number in Camden to 13 including the HSS Zone in Hampstead which covers several streets.
