London Mayor Boris Johnson plans to build two cycle routes crossing the capital from north to south and east to west to encourage Londoners to use their bikes in a city where nine cyclists were killed this year.
The two paths will separate cyclists from other traffic, forming Europe’s longest “substantially segregated urban cycleways,” the mayor’s offices said in a statement today. The north-south route will run for more than three miles from King’s Cross to Elephant & Castle and the east-west path will cover 18 miles from Barking to Acton.
