Streets for Cycling – our asks for the 2026 Local Elections

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We want all the party leaders to pledge to continue expanding the cycle network. All their pledges will be recorded here.

Introduction

Cycle routes in Camden March 2026 – click to enlarge

The map on the left shows the many cycle routes in Camden’s Transport Plan that have already been built. These consist of

  • 28 km* of protected cycle routes on main roads, shown in blue
  • 55 km** of low-traffic routes, shown in orange

The current target in Camden’s Transport Strategy for the end of 2027-28 is 45 km of protected cycle routes on main roads.

We estimate that if all of the main-road routes in our asks are implemented this would result in 50km of protected cycle routes on main roads by 2030.

* When the protected cycle lanes are on both sides of a road we double the length of the road

** For low traffic two-way routes we also double the length of the road.

Our asks

Our asks are shown in green on the maps below. Camden’s current plan is that all of these green links are to be consulted on and a decision reached by 2027-28 as shown in Camden’s Map in their Transport Strategy Annual Update (2025). The majority of these will be protected cycle routes on main roads

1. The few cycleways left to be built across Holborn and the West End are top potential routes which would make thousands of daily journeys safer.

These include:

  • Bloomsbury Way – Theobalds Road – Clerkenwell Road*
  • The Guilford Street alignment
  • Shaftesbury Avenue*

*work has already started on Clerkenwell Road and Shaftesbury Avenue

New cycle routes in the south of Camden – click to enlarge

2. Completing the East-West cycle route through Camden Town which would link Camden to Islington and Westminster and join up with the existing North-South routes.

This refers to the green line along Prince Albert Road – Delancey Street which continues on the C50 route (blue) through Camden Square

Other routes:

  • A short east-west route on Hawley Road connecting the route on Royal College Street
  • Albany Street which is already agreed
New routes through Camden Town – click to enlarge

3. Extending the existing north-south cycle routes from Camden Town to Hampstead, Highgate and the boroughs to the north. This would put many more people in range of safe cycle routes.

The proposed new main road routes include:

  • Kentish Town Road, Fortess Road, Highgate Road, Mansfield Road – Gordon House Road – Fleet Road – Pond Street, Rosslyn Hill and Malden Road

The proposed low-traffic routes include:

  • Swains Lane and Dartmouth Park Hill
New routes in the north of Camden – click to enlarge

4. Making the roads in the north-west of the borough safe for cycling would mean that more people could cycle to and from school, shops, parks and places of work. Just three key cycle routes in the north-west of the borough would open up many more daily journeys for cycling.

These will include low-traffic routes :

  • Q3 on Messina Ave- Woodchurch Road – Greencroft Gardens- Fairhazel Gardens – Loudoun Road
    connecting at one end with a route in Brent on the west side of Kilburn High Road and at the other end with a route through Primrose Hill connecting to the routes through Camden Town.
  • C51 on Kilburn Priory and Priory Road which connects with a route south through Westminster.

We have suggested with light green-gray lines other low-traffic routes. Extending C51 to the north through a short section of West End Lane is a challenge but is important as no other road crosses the railway between Kilburn High Road and Finchley Road.


New routes in the north-west of the borough –click to enlarge

Our asks were sent by email to all 4 party leaders asking them to pledge support

We will record below when we receive the pledges

  1. Richard Olszewsk, Labour
  2. Tom Simon, Liberal Democrats
  3. Steve Adams, Conservatives
  4. Green Party Coordinator

Pledges received

To be posted in order of receipt with links from the top to each one.

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