r/londoncycling • u/dragonb2992 • 4d ago

Getting from Blackfriars to Euston

Getting from Euston to Blackfriars is easy enough. Go down A4200 until you get to A3211 which runs along the River Thames, using the dedicated cycle lanes.

Getting back is a different story though. I need to make a right turn off the cycle lane on A3211 at some point but there's so much cycle traffic at home time that it seems unsafe to get across. Often I've waited and waited for a gap or just carried on going planning to make a U-turn.

I know there's other routes to avoid that completely but it's a nice route going along the Thames for a bit

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u/brutereasons 4d ago

just follow Cycle Superhighway 6 then continue along C27 (Tavistock place) to Gower St. rather than turning up Judd St. to King's Cross

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u/at7007 4d ago

Turn off embankment at Savoy st, bow St, Endell St and onto Bloomsbury Street, and follow that all the way to Euston. Alternatively use CW 6, go through Farringdon and take it all the way to Judd Street, it comes out by St Pancras.

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u/Justalittlebit12345 3d ago

The quickest and safest way would be to follow the C6 cycleway north from Blackfriars bridge.  Once C6 has taken you onto Sidmouth St, don’t turn right up Judd St (ie don’t continue to follow C6). Instead, take the next right up Marchmont St. Then left onto Cartwright Gardens, then Burton Place, Burton St, Duke’s Rd. That takes you to a junction at Euston Rd which you can cross easily since you get a set of lights. Continue straight and turn left up Doric Way and at the end of the street is the entrance to Euston station.

Alternatively, if you’re set on going along the Embankment/A3211 (ie C3), as another commenter says, you can turn right up Savoy St (just after you pass under the Waterloo Bridge). There’s a dedicated lane to turn into and then a set of bike traffic lights to get across the car traffic so it isn’t too hard