Route-finding in London

Tim Henderson

In addition to the other suggestions, it might be worth trying
Transport for London's journey planner.

Use the advanced search option and the deselect all the modes
(bus,tube,riverboat,etc) , continue down the page and put a sensibly
long time for the time you are prepared to cycle (I put in 100 min -
in the past I have put in longer than 2 hours, but I don't think it is
prepared to try !)

It then found a route taking 42 mins that involved a long stretch of
the Lea Valley cycle path (not something that I had noticed in the
thread). It also had 0.7 km of the North Circular and a final 90m of
walking your bike (any clues on what that is all about ?) I'm not very
familiar with the area so can't comment on its practicality - but it
does open up another possibility. The map and route directions it
produced seemed quite good for free !

The map also showed something labelled Madame Tussauds around Wadham
Lodge sports ground. Any locals to help me out on that one ?

Tim

Tony Raven

Tim Henderson wrote:
> In addition to the other suggestions, it might be worth trying
> Transport for London's journey planner.
>
> Use the advanced search option and the deselect all the modes
> (bus,tube,riverboat,etc) , continue down the page and put a sensibly
> long time for the time you are prepared to cycle (I put in 100 min -
> in the past I have put in longer than 2 hours, but I don't think it is
> prepared to try !)
>
> It then found a route taking 42 mins that involved a long stretch of
> the Lea Valley cycle path (not something that I had noticed in the
> thread). It also had 0.7 km of the North Circular and a final 90m of
> walking your bike (any clues on what that is all about ?) I'm not very
> familiar with the area so can't comment on its practicality - but it
> does open up another possibility. The map and route directions it
> produced seemed quite good for free !
>

I've tried that one. The main drawbacks are its a right pain in that
every time you have to go through and tick/unpick all the options to
force it into cycling mode and in cycling mode it does not remove the
walking mode so you can often find the instruction to get off and walk
for a while while it takes you along a pedestrian bit. I've also found
its selection of roads is not as good - for example going from Waterloo
to Lincoln's Inn Fields it will route you round Aldwych which, while
do-able requires your wits and observations skills to be good to work
through the multiple crossing over lanes of traffic to be negotiated
whereas Cyclemaps takes you across the "cycle marked" bit of pavement
onto Wellington St and then across on Gt Queen St - a far more relaxing
and not longer journey

Tony