Lewisham Council has revealed plans for 11 new cycling projects, including routes to connect key stations in the borough, a segregated lane on a busy main road and bike friendly zebra crossings.

Among the proposed schemes revealed in a council report about the development of the borough’s cycle network are a bike route linking New Cross Gate station to Crofton Park station and a route connecting Elverson Road DLR station with Catford station.

A segregated bike track, where the cycle lane is physically separated from the road as opposed to just by a painted line, is planned for Deptford Church Street.

The lane would run along the road between the A2 Deptford Broadway and the A200 Creek Road. 

A crossing on Pagnell Street in New Cross would be upgraded to a parallel zebra crossing – a type of zebra crossing that cyclists can use as well as pedestrians, as would a crossing at Southend Lane in Sydenham. 

Other projects would see a number of new cycle routes be introduced across the borough, including on Cold Blow Lane in New Cross, along Rolt Street and Gosterwood Street in Deptford and on Molesworth Street in Lewisham centre. 

The proposed schemes also include 18 contraflow cycle projects, where cyclists go in the opposite direction of traffic, and the replacement of the Waterlink Way footbridge in Catford.

The projects are dependent on the council winning Transport for London (TfL) funding, which it submitted a £2 million bid for in November 2023.

It is unlikely Lewisham will be awarded enough cash to begin all the proposed projects, but it hopes to be awarded enough money to start work on some of them.

The council has already won £329,000 in cash from TfL for cycling schemes that are already under construction or in the process of being designed or developed.

These include cycle routes between Elverson Road and Catford, as well as between Sydenham station and Waterlink Way, as well as a crossing on Brockley Road. 

Speaking at a council meeting on Tuesday (January 9), Seamus Adams, head of commercial operations and development at the council, said: “We’ve now really built a good reputation with the sponsor [TfL] and as part of the LIP [local implementation plan funding] we put in a bid of in excess of £2 million.

"[…] That just shows the level of ambition we have in the authority.”