A “Crossrail for the bike” is to be built across Central London as part of a radical £900 million investment to create a grid of segregated and safe cycle lanes around the capital.
Running along key Tube lines and the River Thames, the new lanes – which it is hoped will be completed by 2016 – will be “very substantially segregated” from traffic and will include separated cycle routes along the Victoria Embankment and on the Westway flyover in West London.
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, today announced how a decade-long £913 million investment in cycling would be spent in the capital, and described the proposals as “transformative” for the city. The plan will link the existing Cycle Superhighways that currently end in different