Holland Park Roundabout

It is a great scheme, this kind of investment will benefit the community in the long term. This roundabout feels like walking next to the highway and it is extremely intimidating if you try to cycle through it. I work for NHS in the area, and I often cycle to work since it is good for me and I also save some money as well. If my commute will be safer I will cycle more and I will manage to save more moneys as well. There are also more people at work that interested in cycling for the same reason and I am sure this scheme will encourage them. Go TfL!

This is a great initiative and I support it. I work at White City Imperial College campus and I cycle through this area every day. Please go ahead. These changes will make my journey way safer and they will encourage more people cycling. I have several colleagues of mine that would like to cycle to work (in particular the ones coming from the east, since the Central line is always packed), but they are scared of cycling from Holland park to White City. Thanks TfL!

The cycle route is really needed and will only improve travel across West London!

I am against the cycle lane proposal as this will increase the traffic on an already congested roundabout. Cycle lanes throughout west London have had a detrimental impact on traffic flow. Chiswick for example has cycle lanes which have increased car traffic and I have personally noticed not many cyclists use them - so totally unnecessary. Please rethink this scheme - this is also totally not needed and will be a complete waste of tax payers' money. Thanks.

I support these proposals. We need safer cycle lanes in this part of London. Please extend up Holland Park Avenue

I strongly oppose this scheme. Before you invest so much money in this scheme, please make sure you are using our existing infrastructure to its greatest extent. There is plenty of space already for cyclists, and there are plenty of crossings for pedestrians. Combined with the 20mph limit, there is just no need for any of this. Given the complete rejection of previous proposals to put more cycle lanes on Holland Park Avenue, and the chaos caused by the Chiswick scheme and the temporary scheme on High Street Kensington, isn't it time to accept that these schemes will not create relaxed leafy environments where people waft around in their leisure time? This is a working, vibrant city, and I think most residents accept that we need free flowing arteries to keep the lifeblood of the city moving. This roundabout works fine at the moment and needs no adjustment. Perhaps a better focus of resources would be on enforcing the proper behaviour of cyclists, electric scooter and bike users - specifically keeping off the pavement and complying with other road safety laws such as stopping at red lights.

This area is really dangerous for cyclists at the moment. I fully support TfL's proposed changes.

I support TfL's proposals to enable safer cycling on the East-West axis across the huge and dangerous (for cyclists) Shepherd's Bush gyratory. This will provide a missing link for cycling between Notting Hill and Shepherd's Bush / Uxbridge Road, thus encouraging cycling as a healthy and sustainable travel option, and reducing motor vehicle congestion as a result.

I cycle weekly between South London and Ealing and find there are no good/ideal routes for this journey, so I welcome each proposal to improve things. Cycling routes like the one proposed enable faster, safer and direct travel, making navigation simpler and therefore improving roads and streets for all Londoners. This proposal may improve the case for a quality cycleway through Notting Hill to the West End, which would be a welcome strategic improvement.

Please build this cycleway. I would support efforts to reduce the waiting times for cyclists travelling either way on this route, but synchronising traffic lights to avoid multiple stops and waits.

Reducing lanes on the Holland Park Avenue approach from the east to the roundabout is needless. The islands are more than big enough, this will only create more traffic Jams at peak hours. There is already a subway on the north side of the roundabout and existing cycle lanes on the south side. This seems like an incredible waste of TfL’s allegedly limited funds and taking lanes away on an extremely busy roundabout right next to Europe’s largest shopping centre is going to have predictable negative results on surrounding traffic flow.

Do you really need more cycle lanes that cyclists don't have to use? I'm sure there's enough room for the 2 that use the existing cycle lane.

Do not do this! It will create more danger for cyclists create more traffic damage the trade for the shops at Holland Park. Residents do not want this, the Kensington high street disaster you built was bad enough: stop wasting money on stuff like this

It will cause more traffic for Holland Park avenue, which works well considering the amount of useless traffic lights which take far too long. You give priority to a small amount of cyclists who pay not road tax, no insurance and break all highway code rules. They are
a danger to the walking public. Chiswick high road is a disaster to the economy and air polution my bus ride now takes double the time..... dreadful. I object to the cycle lane as a local and I am not
pleased about people making decisions in my area where they do not live or participate. I live in a city that should be moving and not stagnent. I am 74 and seen first hand the destruction of my city by making road smaller and more dangerous than ever before. Crossing the road at King street I was hit by a cyclist speeding not a car.

TFL. I object as a resident of Holland Park to the proposed cycle Lane at Shepherdsbush roundabout. Please stop your intereference in a road system that functions. I have seen first hand the disastrous effect on Chiswick High road where I was hit by a bycycle

Great to see that TFL keeps improving cycling infrastructure in London. I cycle through this roundabout (or rather around it because it is too dangerous). Looking forward to see this implemented

I cycle from the roundabout to the Green on quite a regular basis in the course of my work and find it really dangerous and unclear. This should make it easier and safer.

This change is much needed. I cycle and drive and it's dangerous to cycle around the rouneabout. I travel to the area and this roundabout most saturdays for QPR, and it would benefit the area if this roundabout had better cycling infrastructure.

Absolutely pointless idea. There is already a cycle lane in place. These plans are flawed and will cause more pollution, not less. Khan is under the illusion that London is Amsterdam with millions of cyclists! This junction is a main in/out for commercial traffic. It will cause chaos and standing traffic. Leave it alone. Anyway, it will come to an abrupt stop at the bottom of Holland Park Avenue- thankfully, because RBKC will not be extending it into the borough. They've already booted a cycle lane twice, because they realise what a disaster a cycle lane in HPA would be. So no point going ahead with this. Keep your existing lane for the few cyclists there are, and let the London economy build itself back up again, without obstructing commercial traffic, buses and cars. Suggest whoever planned this comes out of their box and witness the traffic for themselves, and number of cyclists. It's an awful lot of upheaval for a handful of passing cyclists who don't even live in the area. It won't encourage anyone onto a bike. Would further suggest that you make sure you put some really, really big signs at the crossings reminding cyclists that it's signal controlled and they have to stop for traffic, ie they do not have carte blanche to race through regardless, as per every other traffic light.

Re Public consultation – Holland Park Roundabout
Dear Sirs,
As a Kensington resident who resides within 5 minutes walk of the Shepherd’s Bush roundabout and who regularly uses this roundabout on foot or as a passenger in a public transportation, I oppose the proposed development outlined in Helen Cansick’s letter of 11 December 2023.
The proposal will not benefit pedestrians and bus passengers who use the roundabout. The proposal would be disadvantageous to them and to the majority of people who use the roundabout. This proposal would hinder road and pedestrian traffic, increase congestion and serve no public good other than to benefit a small number of bicyclists. Thus this unnecessary development would harm the economy and constitute an excessive waste of public expenditure that would discriminate in favour of a small minority.
The vast majority of users of this roundabout are passengers of public buses, pedestrians, and users of private and public automobiles and trucks. Bicyclists can constitute only a tiny portion of the total daily users of the roundabout. Most bicycle lanes are empty most of the day. Most of the bicyclists, like most bus and auto passengers, are not local residents.
Ordinarily proposals that encourage people to travel safely by bicycle should be favoured, but there is no need to encourage the development of seldom-used bicycle lanes that will only impede the passage of everyone else across the roundabout.
Four main arteries lead and converge into the Shepherd’s Bush roundabout (which Traffic for London misnames “Holland Park roundabout”). This roundabout is already a major cause of congestion for vehicular traffic at commuting times and whenever a road accident occurs in the vicinity. Such traffic congestion is economically disruptive and environmentally polluting.
For operators of motor vehicles and buses, such congestion is a frequent source of frustration, impatience and carelessness. The traffic congestion causes vehicular drivers to increase their speed, switch traffic lanes, neglect traffic signals, block pedestrian crossings, honk their horns, and exude their engine fumes. The creation of additional cycle lanes, cycle crossings and cycle signals will only aggravate this congestion. All traffic of both vehicles and pedestrians will be repeatedly interrupted, impeded and slowed down to make way for the occasional bicyclist. No bicyclist should have such priority over pedestrians or other public travelers in roundabouts. There is no public justification for such a frivolous proposal.

I strongly oppose this proposal,on the grounds that it would be a traffic disaster for an already gridlocked area. Remember that this area has the largest retail centre in Europe in it with huge parking facilities and a bus terminal.Based on other disastrous TfL projects like old street roundabout which has taken years and cost millions I simply do not trust the authority with any infrastructure projects

This roundabout is a nightmare already and there is so much traffic around the area, adding in cycle lanes will make it ten times worse. So many cycle lanes already that are hardly ever used, slowing everything down to a crawl. Awful idea.