London Wall / Moorgate junction in pictures

Looking north to Moorfields, you can see how the footprint of the new building is in line with the building next door. In other words there is no pinchpoint and plenty of space to have a normal street let alone a cycle track.

A photomontage of the new Moorhouse building shows quite how much space there is for a cycle track, marked indicatively in green. This remains the case even with street cafes and sculptures.

Looking south at the bottom end of Moorfields, you can again see how much space there is for a cycle track to continue to the crossing. The pavement will extend underneath the pillars on the right. The existing carriageway cuts into the pavement on the left however our proposed cycle track would curve to the right leaving plenty of space for pedestrians.

This photo shows how Moorhouse would look with the present road layout. Our alternative scheme would not only have a large pedestrian area, it would also include removal of the ugly guardrails which do more to increase motor traffic speed rather than protect pedestrians.

On London Wall west of Moorgate the Corporation installed ridiculously narrow cycle lanes. They were supposed to be 1.2m but where accidentally marked at 1m narrowing to 0.7m despite the fact that the main carriageway lanes are almost 5m wide! Motorway lanes only need be 3.5m wide in comparison...

Looking east towards the junction and the one-way section which is to be removed. This is the key section that poses difficulties as the need to preserve the oak tree, just out of the picture on the left, means that there is limited space.

Looking west back to where the last photo was taken you can see the large amount of space on the right, some of which will be used for the eastbound lane, needed as there will be a pedestrian island in the centre of the road.

Looking south down Moorgate, you can see how the large central island makes it impossible to have a cycle lane leading up to the junction to permit cycles to undertake queuing traffic.

Looking north up Moorgate, you can see how large vehicles such as the bus take up all the spaec in the red bus lane. This makes it impossible for cycles to bypass queuing motor traffic to reach the ASL you can just see the edge of at the bottom of the picture. You can also see how there is space for two lanes of motor traffic in the northbound carriageway, which leads to cyclists being unable to move in congested conditions. By moving the centre of the carriageway slightly to the left (west), there would be enough space for a cycle lane in either direction which would prevent motor vehicles from using the single northbound carriageway as two lanes.

Looking west along London Wall to the Moorgate junction you can see how much wider the pavement on the left (south side) is, even before taking into account the fact that it extends under the pillars. Our alternative scheme would realign the road to widen the pavement on the north side and would remove the guardrail, which combined with the two-way working would bring the street back to life.

On the left is Copthall Avenue where a cyclist proceeding straight on was killed by a left-turning cement lorry that had overtaken her at the pedestrian crossing (see next photo). The driver claimed never to have seen her. Our proposal for an entry treatment would make this sort of 'accident' (if it really can be called that) far less likely.

On the right you can see Circus Place, where the one-way section starts. The part of the road on this side of Circus Place is already two-way and outside the scope of the scheme however there is clearly space for cycle lanes which would be very beneficial. We are proposing an entry treatment for Circus Place.

East of the junction and outside the scheme

Coming from Bishopsgate onto London Wall you can see how unnecessarily wide the road is. By moving the central island to the left (south) and having only two lanes for motor traffic on either side, there would be enough space for cycle lanes.

Here there are no lane markings and again cycle lanes would be of great assistance.

Having two lanes for motor traffic proceeding straight ahead is totally unnecessary. Instead there should be a wide cycle lane and ASL.