A Cycling Plan for Brent A Cycling Plan for Brent May 2013 A Cycling Plan for Brent Brent Cyclists http://brentcyclists.org.uk/ Contact David Arditti
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[email protected] 2 A Cycling Plan for Brent Contents Headline points 4 Introduction 5 Part 1 – South Brent 7 Part 2 – Central Brent 10 Part 3 – North Brent 17 Part 4 – Schemes covering more than one area Barclays Superhighway 10 20 Barclays Superhighway 11 20 Jubilee Line Quietway 20 Part 5 – General pro-cycling measures needed across the whole borough 26 3 A Cycling Plan for Brent Headline points The Mayor has made available a substantial increase in funding for cycling over the next decade He has indicated in his Mayor’s Vision for Cycling in London how this is to be spent The emphasis is on safe and attractive infrastructure that could be compared with international best practice Brent should bid to be the location of a mini-Holland scheme Brent needs to be prepared to reallocate space on main roads to segregated cycle tracks and continuous unobstructed cycle lanes with no parking, running inside bus stops Brent needs to be prepared to strategically close rat-run minor roads to through motor traffic to create the Quietway network In order to create the Jubilee Line Quietway the Neasden subway will need to be rebuilt to make it suitable for cycling (or some other alternative provided) and both roundabouts at Neasden will require re-engineering New bridges across railway lines are needed to make the Wembley and Neasden area permeable to cyclists and pedestrians Barclays Cycle Superhighways 10 and 11 should be on Harrow Road and the A5 respectively.