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A greenway is 'a route which is good from an environmental point of view'. London has many greenways and needs many more. As recommended in the 1992 Green Strategy, London needs a set of overlapping networks for:

  • pedestrians
  • cyclists
  • riders
  • wildlife

Parts of these networks already exist. What London needs is a period of intensive landscape planning, and high investment, to develop the individual networks into a comprehensive Greenway System for London with good links to other transport nodes (stations, bus stops, air ports etc) and to origins and destinations (schools, shops, offices, car parks etc). Greenways need not be vegetated. They must however be green from an environmental point of view.


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  • Bankside greenway

    The greenway section leading to Bankside has become very popular

  • bankside greenway

    Riverside greenway with a pub and access to the beach: wonderful.

  • glazed greenway

    Greenways can have overhead glazing, as at Tower Plaza

  • leadenhall market

    Greenways can be roofed and unvegetated, as at Leadenhall Market.

  • southwark greenway

    Cyclists are great users of greenways

  • culverted river

    Typical channelized London river, awaiting conversion to a multi-purpose greenway.

  • greenwich greenway

    Greenways can have an urban character

  • tate greenway

    The pedestrian route from St Paul's Cathedral to the Tate Modern has helped make this one of the most popular areas of London for tourists

  • greenwich peninsula greenway

    Newly planned greenway on the Greenwich Peninsula, awaiting a landscape design