London plans bike superhighway

Eco Watch - Transport for London, approved the world’s first bicycle superhighway. It would run along the bank of the Thames River, which flows east-west through southern England, including the entire width of London. The plan is part of the city’s Road Modernization Plan, proposed by Transport for London, the city’s transportation coordinating agency.  A subsection of the plan touts Mayor Boris Johnson’s “Vision for Cycling.” 

Describing the superhighway, Johnson said, “My flagship route will run for at least 15 miles, very substantially segregated, from the western suburbs, through the heart of the Capital, to the City, Canary Wharf and Barking in the east. It will, we believe, be the longest substantially segregated continuous cycle route of any city in Europe. It will use a new segregated cycle track along, among other places, the Victoria Embankment and the Westway flyover. The Westway, the ultimate symbol of how the urban motorway tore up our cities, will become the ultimate symbol of how we are claiming central London for the bike.”