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The Lonely Walk in which I walk the Transport for London Road Network in #Havering.
I very much hated this walk and it didn't get any better writing about it, but I offer solutions that really need action on by TfL, the Mayor and politicians.
https://therantyhighwayman.blogspot.com/2025/05/the-lonely-walk.html
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Yes! #isotonic
About 19 miles covered in 9 hours. Lots of stopping to post photos of course!
Definitely feeling the traffic fumes after that.
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Finally, the last free hug spot at the Petersfield Avenue subway.
Very much willing one step after the other now.
Right, time to get some isotonic drinks from the shop and then home for a shower and feet up!
I hope you hated it as much as me!
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Brief respite from the traffic noise just a few meters to the right.
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Tangent Link and at least there are green men crossings over the side road. Racing my battery now!
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And back through Gallows Corner for the third and last time as I head northwest on the northwest side of the A12 Colchester Road, probably to the subway I passed this morning.
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King George's Playing Fields. Faded from their 1936 glory and half privatised.
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North Street / Havering Road (I'm crossing the latter).
A staggered walk with traffic green man crossing of the A12, dash across the side roads.
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A floating bus stop near Ashmour Gardens.
It's the good kind because people have to cross a road and not a cycle track.
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I'll now cross to the north side for a little bit on the Pettits Lane footbridge.
You can cross at ground level, but despite there being a schools both sides, there are no green men.
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I'm in the southern side of the Eastern Avenue because there's no path on the other side for quite a while. What we do have is barely 1.5m wide, overgrown and uneven. This needs widening as it's a useful cycle route to avoid chunks of the horrible A118 where you mix with traffic.
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Southern side of the Eastern Avenue and the Gallows Corner works is widening the road westbound to add (I think) a longer merge. We had be better getting a toucan on this side to cross this exit from the roundabout!
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As I walk around the Gallows Corner roundabout, here's a random bit of art on the retail park. The Colchester Road is well trodden.
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Right. A golden arches breakfast breathed in. Onto Gallows Corner and the A12 Eastern Avenue next.
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Approaching Ardleigh Green again and a glimpse at what could have been a high quality piece of separate walking/ wheeling and cycling space.
But no.
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This petrol station access actually keeps the wide path behind the slip roads.
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Welcome to Pages Wood. Unless you use a non standard cycle or can't dismount.
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There's a steep drop to the right, hence the crash barrier, but nice to see it kerbside.
It's not a bad path of only swept, the weeds removed and cracks maintained.
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North side of the A127 near Tomkyns Lane and here's a wide path which is the original cycle route to Southend.
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And I've run out of path. Crossing the A127 to head back to Gallows Corner. You can carry on towards to Southend on the north side here (left on photo) but I've also run out of Havering.
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Footpath to Moor Lane, amazing contrast!
National Highways has a plan for a footbridge around here somewhere to take people over the A127 to open land as the Lower Thames Crossing will mess with the M25 J27 roundabout. Which I'm nearly at.
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By any metric, this is horrible. But someone has cycled past and so there is utility here.
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Hall Lane flyover. I think it's a thing of faded beauty. I led a project which replaced the southeast parapet (in the photo) for a higher one to facilitate a cycle track for part of NCN136 some years ago.
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Heading into the national speed limit now with a car sales place sat in the middle of nowhere somehow still trading.
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Wingletye Lane. Road widened for slip lanes and the crossing of it is way off to the right.
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The Ardleigh Green footbridge. Main photo looking southeast. This is the only "safe" crossing. No green men on any arm and a key place where the community is severed. The paths both sides were 1930s cycle tracks, but managed for car parking now.
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Crossing the Greater Anglia mainline and Elizabeth Line, with the Ardleigh Green footbridge ahead.
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A127, southwest side heading southeast. Retail on the right residential on the left. Not even a pair of dropped kerbs on this car centric mess.
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It's 05.45 and my #LonelyWalk for #NationalWalkingMonth starts on the southwest corner of J28 of the M25. I'm walking the #Havering sections of the A12 and A127 today.
First is the reworking of the shared path through J28 with toucans just appearing.