How super is your bike lane?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/may/20/super-bike-lane

With the launch of the cycle super highways this summer, the Guardian is doing an on line assessment of the quality of what it calls "bike lanes", including the CSH. (Conventionally cycle lanes are in the carriageway, cycle paths are away from the carriageway and cycle tracks are alongside but not on the carriageway - though shared unsegregated use of the footway is not normally thought of as a cycle track. Cycleways serves as a generic term for all these things).

One of the first CSH's starts/ends in Barking by Greatfields Park. There's a launch event on Saturday 24 July - details to follow.

Goresbrook Road

Work to re-unite Goresbrook Road with Maplestead Road (near The Thatched House Roundabout) is underway - a cycle path is under construction from the Goresbrook Road end of the pedestrianised area in front of the little row of shops.

I hadn't realised that the route behind the shops is fenced off to everyone (including pedestrians) at the Maplestead Road end.