End of new cycle lane at the Royal Standard
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End of new cycle lane at the Royal Standard
Image: © Stephen Craven Taken: 25 Apr 2015
In response to a request from a local cycling campaign group, Greenwich Council put in this cycle lane in April 2015 to allow cyclists a short-cut from Vanbrugh Park to Old Dover Road - effectively going straight across the junction, whereas motor traffic has to take a 300m detour around the gyratory system. Although indicated as a segregated (cycle only) lane, with pedestrians intended to use two zebra crossings and one pelican to cross the junction, as can be seen in Image many pedestrians were already using the cycle lane although they then face a more dangerous unsignalled crossing of the main road to get back on the pavement. Subsequent to this photo, a "tiger crossing" (unsignalled) was marked on the road to deter this use.
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