Th map below shows progress in carrying out the proposals in Camden Council’s Cycling Action Plan (updated in 2022 See Appendix A Figures 4.3 and 4.4). Reviewed and updated in 2025 – see Figure 1 in Appendix B1 of the Camden Transport Strategy Delivery Plan 2025-28
Our map records:
- all of the protected links (segregated) as they are built (shown in purple).
- the low-traffic links (shown in ‘orangered‘); these should be signed and have low traffic counts (i.e. less than 2000 pcus per day)
- some proposed secondary links (from Camden’s 2025 map) not yet implemented (orange lines).
Click any one of the pins to get information about the length of that section and:
- For the protected links whether there are tracks in both directions and the type of infrastructure (e.g. stepped tracks, kerbs or flexible bollards).
- For the low-traffic links whether they are signed
- For both protected and low-traffic links information as to what route they are part of or whether they are form a connection between routes e.g. Prince of Wales Road is part of C6 and Tavistock Place is part of C27 while Goodsway is a connection between C6 on Midland Road and the C-link on York Way.
- For the proposed low-traffic links, notes on what’s needed for them to be included in the network.
Routes
The cycle network consists of a collection of links, while the routes use the network links to form continuous paths between destinations within or outside the borough.
The cycle route numbers are allocated by TfL and are shown on this map. They have allocated numbers to many of our routes e.g. C6, C27, C50, C10, C41, C52 and plain C (C-link) to others (York Way, St Pancras Way, Goodsway).
Larger Map. The Google Sheet on which it is based is here.
The protected links
The interactive chart (Pop-up and permanent protectd cycle lanes) below shows Camden’s progress in replacing flexible bollards (or Orcas) with stepped tracks (or kerbs). We refer to the former as pop-up and the latter as permanent.
Camden’s first example of pop-up cycle lanes was in Tavistock Place westbound in 2015 with Orcas. Since 2020, starting with TfL’s Streetspace Programme during the pandemic, cycle lanes including Prince of Wales Road eastbound, York Way and Haverstock Hill were installed with flexible bollards.
Replacing pop-up with permanent
- During 2023, the flexible bollards on Prince of Wales Road eastbound were replaced with stepped tracks.
- Work was finished on Tavistock Place westbound (kerbs) in 2024.
- Chalk Farm Road was completed by February 2025 up to the Adelaide Road junction – we show the missing part (Haverstock Hill below Prince of Wales road) as pop-iup.
- The full length ofYork Way (stepped tracks) was complete in July 2025.
- August 2025: St Pancras way is also complete (stepped tracks and kerbs) north of Pratt Street – we show the northern part as prrmanent and the southern part as pop-up.
Note: Hampstead Road: we included this from 2020 to 2024 but its condition is so poor for cycling that we removed it in early 2025 (losing 0.78 x 2 km).
The interactive chart below shows the total lengths of segregated lanes built each year.
The low-traffic links
The above map includes low-traffic links: some are parts of cycle routes e.g. Judd Street is part of C6, some form an entire route e.g. Arlington Road and others are connections between routes e.g. Harmood Street links C6 on Prince of Wales Road to Chalk Farm Road (which we believe should be allocated a route number and label as C?)
Criteria for the low–traffic standard:
- Low traffic means less than 2000 pcu per day and less than 200pcu per hour at peak times e.g. Grafton Road satisfied this criterion after the Queens Crescent LTN was implemented. Issues of excess speeding and close passing should also be considered.
- All crossings over busy roads must be made safe e.g. by a parallel crossing where C6 crosses Mansfield Road. We have allocated the Queens Crescent link to the proposed list as it lacks a safe crossing over Malden Road.
- The link must also be safe at all times e.g. including after dark
- Major links should be signed (but we do include unsigned links in our list)
Inclusion of a link in our list of connections between routes
- All of the cycelable roads in Camden form part of the Network and permeability improvements are very useful in increasing its usability.
- Some of them are selected to provide useful connections between routes: it is hard to define a strict criterion for inclusion or omission
- e.g. when routes are roughly parallel east-west (Tavistock Place, Guildford Street, Theobalds Road ) or north -south (Gower Street, C52, C41 Hunter Street – Red Lion Street, Grays Inn Road), as is the case in the south of the borough, the criterion is mainly the space between them which should not exceed 400m (about the length of Malet Street). So in the western part of this area we need a connection along Montague Street, Bedford Square (N), Bayley Street, Percy Street. And for the rest we urgently need the planned routes along Guildford Street and Theobalds Road
- or when they are at an acute angle such as Prince of Wales Road and Grafton Road we need links e.g. Queen Crescent to avoid using two sides of a triangle
Our measurements
The interactive chart below shows that we have around 50 km of low-traffic cycle links in Camden. The year of a particular link is that of the most recent improvements e.g. although the Camden Square route has existed for many years its date is given as 2025..
The interactive chart below shows that the majority of the low-traffic links are already signed.