Most dangerous junctions in London for cyclists revealed as council slammed for 'failing to improve safety'

A council has been accused of failing to enactment connected concerns astir the hazard posed to cyclists by the “most unsafe junctions successful London”.

Wandsworth assembly was named and shamed by the London Cycling Campaign for an evident deficiency of information improvements to Upper Tooting Road.

The roadworthy – on which runs Transport for London’s CS7 rhythm superhighway – was declared the astir unsafe country successful London for cyclists by the London Cycling Campaign for the 2nd successive year.

Based connected an investigation of TfL and constabulary collision information implicit the astir caller year, the 10 astir unsafe junctions (with the transport authorization responsible) are:

Upper Tooting Road clump (TfL/Wandsworth)

• “Shoreditch Triangle” Great Eastern Street/Curtain Road (TfL/Hackney)

• Clapham High Street/Lendal Terrace (TfL/Lambeth)

• Wandsworth Road/Silverthorne Road (Lambeth)

• “Holborn” Southampton Row/Theobalds Road (Camden)

• Knightsbridge/Albert Gate/Sloane Street/Brompton Road (TfL/Kensington & Chelsea/Westminster)

• Lambeth Road/Kennington Road (Lambeth/Southwark)

• Royal College Street/Baynes Street (Camden)

• Mitcham Road/Leighton Street (Croydon)

• Seven Sisters Road/Blackstock Road/Stroud Green Road (TfL/Hackney/Haringey/Islington)

Five cyclists are known to person been killed cycling successful London successful 2024.

The LCC said its updated unsafe junctions representation revealed the “human outgo down a twelvemonth of inaction” from councils and TfL successful reducing the roadworthy information to cyclists and pedestrians.

Most superior and fatal collisions involving radical cycling oregon walking hap astatine junctions.

According to LCC research, of the 10 junctions highlighted connected past year’s map, determination has been 1 fatal, six serious, and 21 “slight” – but inactive terrible capable to necessitate the exigency services to beryllium called - collisions.

Only 2 of the unsafe junctions astatine Holborn person undergone important improvements.

The LCC said that the existent complaint of advancement meant that Mayor Sadiq Khan’s “vision zero” people of ending roadworthy deaths successful London by 2041 “will surely beryllium missed”.

The LCC besides compiled a abstracted “dangerous junctions” database for pedestrians. It is:

• Brixton Road/Acre Lane/Coldharbour Lane (TfL/Lambeth)

• “Tottenham Court Road” Oxford Street/Charing Cross Road (Camden/Westminster)

• “Monument” King William Street/Eastcheap/Cannon Street (City of London)

• “Trafalgar Square roundabout” Whitehall/Charing Cross Road (Westminster)

• Peckham High Street/Rye Lane (TfL/Southwark)

• “Shoreditch Triangle” Great Eastern Street/Curtain Road (TfL/Hackney)

• Kingsland High Street/Ridley Road (TfL/Hackney)

• “Tooting” Tooting High Street/Garratt Lane (TfL/Wandsworth)

• “St Pancras” Euston Road/Pancras Road (TfL/Camden)

• Peckham High Street/Peckham Hill Street (TfL/Southwark)

According to the LCC, Wandsworth assembly person Simon Hogg has “completely ignored” protests from rhythm campaigners and calls to hole its astir unsafe junctions.

The LCC said: “Like different assembly leaders, helium appears to similar to stay soundless successful the look of radical cycling being killed successful his borough.”

There are 4 junctions connected the Upper Tooting Road – which is portion of the A24 - that are notorious motorist “rat runs”. In the past year, determination person been 2 superior collisions and six flimsy collisions involving cyclists. The junctions are with Ansell Road, Lessingham Avenue, Derinton Road, and Price Close.

According to LCC, determination person been 9 superior collisions involving cyclists and a further 19 that required exigency services attendance since Wandsworth axed a debased postulation neighbourhood successful the country successful 2020.

LCC main enforcement Tom Fyans said: “We person highlighted immoderate of the unsafe junctions connected this database for years. How galore much superior injuries and fatalities volition it instrumentality for politicians to act?

“Too often, the Mayor, TfL and borough leaders proceed to utter the aforesaid platitudes and much families suffer.

“Until London takes bolder action, radical volition support being killed portion cycling and excessively fewer Londoners volition consciousness harmless capable to cycle.”

Jenny Yates, Wandsworth’s furniture subordinate for transport, said: “Our thoughts spell retired to the families and loved ones of the cyclist killed.

“Officers astatine the assembly person been moving hard with TfL, nether whom work for the bulk of these junctions fall. This is to guarantee information is improved for everyone utilizing the roads.

“As a assembly we are keen to promote cycling and to marque it harmless and casual for radical to marque their journeys crossed the borough. We proceed to perceive to residents and cardinal partners and we’re taking a fig of important steps to assistance arsenic galore radical arsenic imaginable consciousness they tin locomotion oregon rhythm safely.”

Penny Rees, TfL's caput of steadfast streets investment, said: “We are committed to making life-saving changes astatine immoderate of the capital's astir unsafe and intimidating junctions, arsenic portion of our £150m per twelvemonth harmless & steadfast streets funding.

“We person truthful acold completed enactment astatine 45 Safer Junctions crossed London, and precocious started works astatine Lambeth Bridge and Battersea Bridge.

“We besides proceed to enactment connected designs for a important fig of further locations alongside London boroughs, and person made an further £50 cardinal disposable to them implicit the adjacent 3 years to amended information connected their section roadworthy networks.

“We invited this probe and volition beryllium moving intimately with campaigners, councils and section communities crossed the superior to amended road safety and extremity the devastation caused by collisions."

Jeremy Leach, seat of the pedestrian run radical London Living Streets, said: " Pedestrians marque up astir fractional of each fatalities connected London's roads and a 3rd of those earnestly injured.

“There are inactive acold excessively galore junctions crossed London wherever determination is nary greenish antheral crossing oregon crossings are missing from 1 oregon much arms.”