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Bike paths in abandoned tube tunnels: is the London Underline serious?\u2026.<\/p>\n
Could the answer to London\u2019s congestion be a network of subterranean cycleways? A new project from design firm Gensler suggests that maybe \u2013 just maybe \u2013 it might. Dubbed the London Underline, the project would turn London\u2019s abandoned tube tunnels into living streets beneath the city. While there\u2019s still a speculative, utopian look to the proposals \u2013 renderings showing the tunnels packed with youthful Londoners resemble an updated version of Logan\u2019s Run \u2013 the London Underline is being taken seriously enough in some quarters. Earlier this week, it won the Best Conceptual Project gong at the London Planning awards.
\nThe project would use dual tunnels in the Underground\u2019s defunct stretches to create parallel pedestrian paths and cycle ways, also lined with cafes and click-and-collect points for online shopping. To help make the tunnels more financially viable, each path could be surfaced with kinetic paving, which uses footfall and the friction created by bike tyres to generate electricity. The tunnels would not need to be connected directly to ground level. They would be accessed via tube stations, while Boris bikes for hire would lurk at the mouth of each stretch.<\/p>\n
The first response to all this is probably surprise. Not many people were aware that London had a vast network of unused tunnels slithering beneath its surface. The truth is that it doesn\u2019t really \u2013 but there are some interesting subterranean stretches here and there that are currently lying dark and sullen. Perhaps the key unused tunnel is the defunct branch of the Piccadilly Line that runs beneath Kingsway, from Holborn to long abandoned Aldwych station. There\u2019s an even longer artery from Green Park to Charing Cross, along what was the final leg of the Jubilee Line before its eastern extension opened in 1999.
\nWhile these are the only two stretches Gensler has a serious eye on, there are some other possibilities elsewhere. Stretches of vacant tunnel remain at Goodge Street and Stockwell, for example, remnants of a bizarre second world war plan to connect deep bomb shelters into an express connection running parallel with the Northern Line. Saying that these scattered stretches could create \u201cthe first city-wide network of its kind\u201d pushes credulity, but at least as Gensler\u2019s co-director Ian Mulcahey frames it, opening the Underline for business needn\u2019t necessarily be a major funding drain:<\/p>\n
The idea of an Emirates Underline or an O2 Underground snaking beneath London might not be everyone\u2019s dream of London\u2019s bright future, but if the project created some quirky new spaces that generate revenue for TfL, who\u2019s to complain if somebody wants to at least think the concept through?
\nThe snag is that Gensler is also presenting the plan as a sober response to London\u2019s congestion. On their hypothetical maps, they\u2019ve suggested ways the Underline could connect up to other car-free routes. They\u2019ve linked it, for example, to surface pedestrian walkways crossing the Thames, one at Jubilee Bridge and the other across the Garden Bridge \u2026 across which it will be forbidden to cycle.
\nPersonally, if I were trying to find a congestion-free way to reach the South Bank from Bloomsbury, I wouldn\u2019t rent a Boris bike at platform level in Holborn station, cycle it five-odd minutes down a tunnel, dock it again and take a lift up to ground level, then rent another Boris bike only to be forced to wheel it across a bridge. It might look like fun for some, but the Underline is about as practical a way of clearing the roads as buying every Londoner their own miniature zeppelin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5277,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[1],"tags":[],"geo":[6876],"class_list":{"0":"post-59296","1":"video","2":"type-video","3":"status-publish","5":"category-cronaca","6":"geo-arezzo"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youreporter.it\/api\/wp\/v2\/video\/59296"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youreporter.it\/api\/wp\/v2\/video"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youreporter.it\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/video"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youreporter.it\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/5277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youreporter.it\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.youreporter.it\/api\/wp\/v2\/video\/59296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.youreporter.it\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youreporter.it\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youreporter.it\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59296"},{"taxonomy":"geo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.youreporter.it\/api\/wp\/v2\/geo?post=59296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}