Ealing council is consulting on a scheme that will scrap proposed protected cycle lanes on the Uxbridge Road. It will also rip out the existing cycle lanes (above), and replace them with a bus lane. The new scheme covers the length of the Uxbridge Road between Greenford Road and Ealing Hospital. It replaces a 2021 plan to provide cycle lanes, protected by wands, along both sides of the carriageway. Instead, the latest plans are for cyclists to share narrow bus lanes with buses, and a stretch of pavement with pedestrians. The new scheme ignores national and London guidance for cycle routes, even though the road is a strategic cycle route in Ealing's proposed cycle network. Most of this section of the Uxbridge Road is wide enough to carry an eight-lane smart motorway, so it is baffling that the council hasn't found room for safe cycling. Ealing Cycling Campaign will be opposing the scheme, and calling for it to be revised to include protected cycle lanes. You can see details of the scheme and respond to the consultation here.
