Find safe and convenient cycling routes for your journey.
Over 100 Hackney streets are filtered, lowering motor traffic volume and speed, and making the streets safer for cycling. A number of main road cycle tracks have been added over recent years. Neighbouring boroughs have also improved their cycling infrastructure. Many people are not aware that there are safe and quiet routes available for their journey.
Find some inspiration below for journeys within Hackney and beyond. These routes will be mainly on quiet routes with no through motor traffic, or on separated cycle tracks—but of course judge the conditions for yourself. If you have a particular destination in mind, get in touch and we’ll try to find the best route! Or, share your favourite route with us so we can add it.
Routes from and through Hackney
The excellent YouTube channel London Cycle Routes have many videos filmed in Hackney. They also have a viewer-contributed map with all the routes, shown below:
Here’s a few of their videos with routes within Hackney:
Other resources
TfL’s map of official cycleways would also be worth looking at for inspiration. Alternatively, if you want to see all the options available (or alternatively, which areas need to be avoided), and are happy to get a bit nerdy / technical, the SafeCycleLDN project attempts to map all cycling infrastructure in London.
Missing links and major blockages
The routes and resources outlined above show that Hackney’s cycling infrastructure enables numerous safe and quiet routes. However, finding routes should be intuitive – all streets should be either free of through motor traffic, or have protected cycle tracks.
Unfortunately, many main roads and junctions currently present major blocks to routes, making certain journeys either impossible or at the very least requiring significant detours. Examples:
- The A10
- Pembury Circus
- Mare Street – Amhurst Road
- Graham Road – Dalston Lane – Queensbridge Road junction