Better walking and cycling options between Kennington and Walworth

Kennington Road, Kennington Lane and Kennington Park Road are major roads that make active travel difficult - especially cycling - on an east-west axis. There are no child-friendly cycle options, due in part to the need to turn onto the main road then turn off it to cross it. 

The map below shows, in black lines, existing walking and cycle routes, and, in purple lines, prospective routes, with blue lines marking the light controlled pedestrian or toucan crossings.

Zooming into, the lower route below, linking Reedworth Street to Braganza Street, requires comparatively little work to bring it to life, while the higher route would fit in nicely to the planned Knights Walk development and the recent creation of a cycling and walking route through Dugard Way to Brook Drive:

Taking the lower route first, suggested easy and cheap changes - from the Reedworth Street end - are:

A) Tweak the barrier to the Cotton Gardens tower blocks car park to make it easy to cycle (including hand cycles and cargo cycles) and walk  through

 Removing the barrier in the road and put the pavement bollard on the edge of the pavement.

B) Make cycle friendly gap in the speed bump

C) Create a more welcoming gap in the wall by the tree and improve the surfacing

 or, probably better, move the gap in the wall to allow passage straight onto the pedestrian crossing (which in a large budget world would be made a Toucan crossing and moved south a few metres to the current gap to align with the wide pavement on Cottington Street!)

 D) make this section of pavement shared space or provide a cycle track (and move the bin in line with the bollards)

A flush kerb to allow cyclists to cross Kennington Lane into the existing gap in the wall would be great.

 D) Cyclists can rejoin the road here, or this section could be made shared use or have a cycle track

F) Provide flush kerbs at the pavement linking Cottington Street and Othello Street

G) Make cycle friendly gaps in the speed bumps on Othello Street

G) Make the pavement on Kennington Park Road to the lights at Braganza Street a shared pedestrian/cycle space, with toucan crossings into Braganza Street.

Taking the upper route through the Cottington Close Estate and Knights Walk:
A) The Guiness Trust Estate (below left) could be used to access Penton Place in Southwark

 The Pedestrian crossing outside Tesco could be moved up to here, to allow a crossing direct to the Cottington Close estate (above right)
 B) Having passed through the arch, the Cottington Close Estate has the view below, but this could be redone to meet the desire line to the exit on the other side of the parking and park space

 C) The pavement on the Kennington Lane exit side is too narrow to have any use. This whole area could be made more pleasant and less car fixated.

 D) A Zebra crossing could be provided, or the existing crossing up towards Jewson, which is not best placed, could be moved down to provide a direct link to Knights Walk.

E) Improvements could be made to what was described in the planning application for flats in Dugard Way as a 'high quality walking and cycling route' between Brook Drive and Renfrew Road - making gates accessible for hand cyclists, appraising suitability of the ramp and replacing with a better one if necessary, providing a flush kerb at the base as shown in the original plans, removing signs saying 'pedestrian access only' on the gates.