The best way to cycle from Paddington to Waterloo

Always love to watch your videos on a Sunday :) thanks for all your work

I agree with your thoughts about tourists in the cycle lanes on Westminster Bridge taking photos and also the ice cream vans. But generally if you end up sharing space with pedestrians, just accept it. It's not worth the bother of getting uptight and won't achieve anything.

Nice video. The ice cream vans should be confiscated if they continually flout the enforcement there.

Worth another look at Westbourne Terrace - in the last few weeks they seem to have changed the phasing of the traffic lights so you don't have to stop at every single one. Let's hope it stays that way because it's been much less annoying

Surely, the fines would be progressively greater for subsequent tickets? (i.e. for icecream trucks)

Great videos, very helpful.😁

Don't forget for leaving Fenchurch St, turn left out of the main exit, for a filtered Mark Lane and left again for Cycleway 3.

I do like the cycle route from Hyde park to Paddington but those traffic lights are shocking. Out of the park left is fine. Right turn great and then you are stuck not knowing what is going on & either have to dismount or risk it... Sussex gardens looks good will keep that in mind tho the bottom of Albion Street is a lil steep and wobbly like the street at Waterloo which has been like that for time x

I never knew that about constitutional hil and the mall. Thanks

Oooh, this is a bit of a find, nice work !

I think that’s a bicycle police officer that’s helping a tourist rather than a police officer stopping a cyclist!

Did you see there is a new section of C34 by Hammersmith?
might be worth checking out

🤙🏼 Lots of ridin next to / through larks 🤩🤙🏼

Good shout avoidin the "walkers", shared paths can be frustratin when it's a long one.

Glad the police are crackin down on those ice cream vans puttin customers at risk 😱 but they should leave eBikers alone.

With westbourne terrace the lights are timed for North south, so you can get through all of those quickly, however for east west (on the C27) you do end up waiting a long time at red lights

Great video! Really good to learn about that Park Lane option because Broadwalk can be a bit intense/scary... will look out for the turning and try it out soon. Cheers 🚲🌳

Interesting that the bloke you were following in the park came out onto the lights at exactly the same time. But avoid shared paths is my motto, so I'll stick with your route.

Another option for the start of the cycle is to head into the park at Victoria Gate ... then south down West Carriage Drive ... and then east along the north side of the Serpentine (shared space) towards Hyde Park Corner

Sometimes the pollution on Park Lane can be a bit unpleasant

Are you off twitter? I can't seem to find you there??

Very pleasant video! Please, How safe is it to go from Paddington to Ladbroke Grove? Is the C27 okay, or is there a better route?

Nice video. I think the best routes in London are the ones that go through or by parks, even better if those parks are Hyde Park, Green Park and St James's Park.

Can you do more videos in the suburbs, like Harrow to Heathrow or Croydon to Bromley?

Whats the best smart phone based GPS / route planner for London trips on the go? - CityMapper, Google Maps, Kamoot....Something I haven't heard of?

Another excellent video to encourage cycling in London! I was not at all surprised that the cycle lane on Sussex, in Kensington, was unprotected. Good luck getting through to that lot, from the sound of it, they represent the old English guard, of course, and for them, the realm is at stake - THEIR realm. But keep up the good work!

Been really hacked off with this route the last week as a billionaire wants a crown on his head which obviously means the cycle Lanes past his Palace have been closed. Alternative routes around this area are not good! 🙄

I avoid the bumps in Hyde Park by going round the other way, down W Carriage Drive but obviously depends on exactly where you're coming in/out of the park as to whether that's efficient.

I go south on London steeet, straight on to thw mini roundabout, right, follow the road left, then over into the park. No protection and a decent amount of traffic but I'm just aiming to get to the park in the shortest distance. Having seen how much rat running traffic there is on the hyde park estate in your video I'm going to stick with it!

Once at the park I take west carriage drive which is very safe, quick and pedestrian free, but adjacent to queueing motor traffic.

Then serpentine road. Here you have to be wary of pedestrians but its super wide and no speed bumps.

Another good video Jon - thanks! All the routes around the parks are good ones.

Great video. I'm going to London next week and planning Paddington to Embankment, then to Canary Wharf, across to Greenwich then back along the South Bank.
2nd day will be Paddington to Regents park.

Wonderful as always!

To say something is "over engineered" doesn't make sense. Engineering is good, we want as much science and knowledge and trained professionals as possible. The more the better... unless it's "poorly engineered". This is a term that better describes a bad intersection.

Great video as always. Ive done done this route several times to catch trains at Paddington Station, and my two cents of advice would be to leave far in advance on sunday mornings, as this route goes right around the buckingham palace area which is often closed to all traffic on sundays. Almost missed a train once because traffic was stopped for 10 minutes due to troop movements, and another time because the area was closed completely which took me through a maze of streets in mayfair!

Love the videos man keep it up👍

I ride this route (or a variation) every week but this showed me that I could improve my route! Helpful.

Cycled between Hyde Park and Waterloo yesterday. And yes another one of those ice cream vans was parked dangerously on the double red lines. Shouted out he shouldn’t be parked there. Don’t think he liked that.

this channel is a gem! I wish I have an app to use your routes!

Hi. Cyclist here. The speed humps you refer to in Hyde Park are there for good reason… the wannabe Tour de France imbeciles who give zero f*cks about anyone else, including other people on bikes, and tear along that path at truly hideous speeds. 👍🏽