Bike vs London Underground - Bike won!
Bike vs London Underground
What is faster – the London Underground or a bicycle?Video included at the end of this post
Everyone can remember the excellent Top Gear episode where Richard Hammond travelled by bike to London City Airport and beat his co-presenters who between them used a car, a boat and public transport. It made for a thrilling episode and was a great victory for all those who support cycling.
I however wanted to take this experiment a little further and try it out in some popular destinations in London you or I may travel to daily to see which of the two might win.
I made the test as fair as possible by starting and ending the journey standing on the same spot. For tube route planning and estimating journey times I used TfL’s journey planner. Above ground I used Bike Route Toaster to plot a suitable route. I then exported the data to my iPhone which is mounted to my bike using the Bicio bike mount.
Predicted times
According to TfL’s planner the journeys should take:
| Tube | Bike | |
| Swiss Cottage to Covent Garden | 21 minutes | 23 minutes |
| Covent Garden to London Bridge | 19 minutes | Not available |
| London Bridge to Mornington Crescent | 18 minutes | 23 minutes more... |
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