{"id":9897,"date":"2013-09-20T18:26:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/?p=9897"},"modified":"2013-09-20T18:26:47","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:26:47","slug":"cycle-infrastructure-guide-uk-and-the-landscape-architecture-of-the-waterlink-greenway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/cycle-infrastructure-guide-uk-and-the-landscape-architecture-of-the-waterlink-greenway\/","title":{"rendered":"Cycle Infrastructure Guide UK and the landscape architecture of the Waterlink Greenway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"775\" height=\"480\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-bdfThs8QAw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nHere is a video of the Waterlink Way from Maritime Greenwich to Lewisham. It was &#8216;completed&#8217; c 2009 and is categorised as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfl.gov.uk\/corporate\/media\/newscentre\/metro\/26423.aspx\">a greenwway on the TfL Website<\/a>. Its quality gets better south of Catford and I do not object to the signposting. But before calling it a greenway they should have either (1) marked it as a temporary, until it can be re-routed along Deptford Creek, or, (2) employed a landscape architect to create a temporary design (3) asked a local landscape architect (me!) to recommend an alternative route as pro bono work. I would have recommended the route shown by a green dotted line on excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustrans.org.uk\/ncn\/map\/route\/waterlink-way\">the Sustrans plan<\/a> below. Greenwich Park is also shown on the title image at the start of the video.<br \/>\n<div id=\"attachment_9900\" style=\"width: 785px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waterlink_greenway.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9900\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waterlink_greenway.jpg\" alt=\"Waterlink Green Way\" title=\"Print\" width=\"775\" height=\"436\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waterlink_greenway.jpg 775w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waterlink_greenway-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waterlink_greenway-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/waterlink_greenway-624x351.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 775px) 100vw, 775px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9900\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Waterlink Greenway recommended alternative route map<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nThe route through Greenwich Park and across Blackheath is beautiful and historic. It connects to what could <strong>and should<\/strong> be a cycle route on the east side of Lewisham Hill. A great advantage of making this a designated cycle track (shared with pedestrians) is that it would be used by commuters wishing to reach Lewisham Station and Lewisham High Street. It could also connect to local schools, giving mums, dads and kids safe routes to school &#8211; so that they do not have to take them by car. The &#8216;greenway&#8217; shown on my video could not have these roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a video of the Waterlink Way from Maritime Greenwich to Lewisham. It was &#8216;completed&#8217; c 2009 and is categorised as a greenwway on the TfL Website. Its quality gets better south of Catford and I do not object to the signposting. But before calling it a greenway they should have either (1) marked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gardenvisit.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}