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Detailed design for Watermans Park to Kew Bridge cycleway

At risk of attracting further ridicule and contempt at being unable to track down documents online, could someone point me in the right direction for a more detailed map of the new section of the Cycleway planned between Watermans Park and Kew Bridge than the one in the article on the front page?

Jeremy Parkinson ● 1282d10 Comments

There are detailed engineering drawings in the documents for the September 2019 Hounslow cabinet meeting when Cycleway 9 was approved.There may be some changes since then but probably not many as construction would have started in 2020 if not delayed by Covid and TfL funding.

Michael Robinson ● 1282d

Having just read the chiswickw4 article, it is typically inaccurate, as it says "The design is based on plans drawn up for the original Cycle Superhighway (CS9) in 2017 ".The plans approved in September 2019 were substantially different from the plans from 2017 and there was a consultation in January 2019 for the updated plans with revised traffic modelling.

Michael Robinson ● 1282d

Thanks for the info referring to the Cabinet meeting.I found the drawings on approx pages 439(Watermans) - 444 (Kew Bridge) ofhttps://democraticservices.hounslow.gov.uk/documents/g11007/Public%20reports%20pack%20Tuesday%2003-Sep-2019%2019.00%20Cabinet.pdf?T=10

Tim Henderson ● 1282d

Thank you both.

Jeremy Parkinson ● 1281d

It's hardly a 'detailed' map, buried as it is inside a 945 page document!

Peter Evans ● 1281d

It's hardly an accessible or 'detailed' map, buried as it is inside a 945 page document!

Peter Evans ● 1281d

If you look at the agenda on the Hounslow website, there is a document just with the plans. For whatever reason, they also have a document containing all documents on the agenda and that was the one linked.

Michael Robinson ● 1281d

Having had a chance to look at the plans what I can't work out is what changes were made from 2017 to 2091 to make such a difference to expected journey times between Kew Bridge and Ealing Road. Can anyone explain?

Jeremy Parkinson ● 1280d

The original plans from 2017 had 'with flow' cycle lanes along both sides of the road while the 2019 plans were changed to bidirectional on the the E side of the A205 and S side of the A315 up to near the Jet station.  The 2019 plans added another S bound lane over Kew Bridge so traffic could clear the junction faster and they took space from the pavement on the W side of Kew Bridge to do this.This traffic going over Kew Bridge may all come to a halt again when the road goes back to single lane by Kew Green, but from a TfL perspective, at least it was improving the flow at Kew Bridge junction.

Michael Robinson ● 1280d

Your response is very much appreciated.

Jeremy Parkinson ● 1279d