The answer to making London safer and less congested for cyclists could lie underground, according to a leading design firm.
Gensler has come up with an award-winning plan to convert disused London Underground routes into subterranean cycleways and pedestrian routes.
The scheme, dubbed the London Underline project, has now been recognised at the London Planning Awards where it was named Best Conceptual Project last month.
Its designers say it would transform tunnels beneath the capital into vibrant subterranean streets, with shopping facilities, cafes and pedestrian paths running parallel with cycle routes.
The tunnels would be accessed via Tube stations and would be surfaced by kinetic paving at stations, which would use use footfall to generate energy, according to Gensler.
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