October 12th: last weekly Bike Train till spring

[Sally Eva]

Final Opportunity to experience this ?brilliant service? before we go monthly for the winter.

Next one after today will be November 16th.

However, that?s then and this is now. As always, we will be taking people who want to enjoy their commute to work up the Bike Train route to work ? 50% parks, 40% segregated cycle lanes and 10% traffic-calmed backstreet. We never share the road with a bus or an HGV.

We leave Nunhead Station at 8am, Denmark Hill and Peckham Rye stations at 8.10am. At Denmark Hill we leave from the cafe in Windsor Walk led by Liz Eden (07814 515 715). The two rides meet in Burgess Park and arrive at Blackfriars at 8.45am. The starting point at Peckham Rye is the bike stands behind McDonalds. From Blackfriars riders are taken on individually (if they want) and destinations so far include Faringdon, Kings Cross, Westminster, Mayfair and Tower Hill.

Our route takes in two parks, a traffic-calmed backstreet, the cycling-on-the-pavement lanes on the New Kent Road, the Elephant and Castle by-pass and then the new TfL segregation. It?s very quiet and enjoyable, mostly off-road (through parks) and then a backstreet. After that we are on segregation which is where there is a part of the road for bikes only, protected by about 2m of pavement.

The map is here:

Entirely free and all welcome. To join in Denmark Hill text Liz Eden on 07814 515 715 or for Nunhead and Peckham text me on 07842 640 207 or don?t do any of that and just turn up.