Consultation update 5 September 2022
We have now considered all of the issues raised by the respondents to the consultation. We have also reviewed other data we collected, such as cycling rates and the effects of the changes on bus journey times and other traffic. We found that there was a clear increase in the levels of cycling along CS7, not dropping below a weekday average of 4,800 people cycling in the spring of 2022.
Having considered the data and the responses to the consultation, we have decided to retain the changes we made to CS7 between Oval and Elephant & Castle permanently.
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Consultation update 23 March 2022
We held a six-month consultation between 17 May and 17 November 2021 on experimental changes we made to Cycle Superhighway 7 between Oval and Elephant & Castle.
We received 264 responses to our consultation in total, including three from stakeholders.
We have now published a Consultation Report to set out the outcomes of the consultation, but we have not yet made any decisions about how to move forward. You can read our consultation report and the appendix to the report in the Documents section of this page.
Once we have made a decision about how to move forward we will write to the respondents to the consultation with a response to each of the issues raised in the consultation.
This consultation is now closed and we’re grateful to everyone who took part. We are now considering the feedback we received and will publish a Consultation Report as soon as we can in 2022. At this point we will also set out our next steps.
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Overview
We have made some changes to Cycle Superhighway 7 between Oval and Elephant & Castle as part of an experiment. We hope these changes will help people who can to walk and cycle more, to help maintain space on public transport for those who need it and help people to avoid people using their cars as much as possible.
We want to know your views and experiences of these changes. We are holding a six-month consultation on the experimental scheme. You can reply by following the link to the Survey below. We also want this consultation to be accessible to everyone.
There is an Easy Read version of our materials in the ‘Documents’ section. There is also an Easy Read version of our survey. In the bottom right-hand corner, there is also a British Sign Language video which includes audio. If you need to translate this page into another language, please use the ‘Select language’ button in the bottom-left hand corner of this page.
The purpose of this scheme
Keeping people safe
Cycle Superhighway 7 is one of the most heavily used routes into central London, with over 8,000 people per day cycling on the section between Oval and Elephant & Castle, based on 2019 data. Unfortunately, there were 79 collisions along the A3 between Oval and Elephant & Castle in the three years up to December 2019, and these led to 94 people being hurt. Of these, 17 people were killed or seriously injured.
Enabling walking and cycling
We have already upgraded sections of Cycle Superhighway 7 through Colliers Wood, Tooting, Balham and Clapham to Oval. We are now planning to upgrade the section on the A3 between Oval and Elephant & Castle. The new upgraded route will provide better facilities for people cycling using the route and encourage more people to choose cycling to travel in the area.
This section of the upgraded route will improve the existing connections between the rest of the route, to Clapham, Balham, Tooting and Colliers Wood southbound, as well as Southwark Bridge northbound. It will also connect with the A23 scheme that has been delivered and to Cycleway 6 via Elephant & Castle.
A map giving an overview of the changes we will be making can be found in the 'Documents' section.
Information to help you respond
There is additional information in the ‘Documents’ section of this page. This information explains in more detail:
Oval to Elephant & Castle overview map (165 KB) (pdf)
British Sign Language (BSL) consultation video
