Hi, I am looking in to commuting as part of a college project (I also do a 9mile commute from Forest Hill to Kensington most days) and was wondering how other people found using London’s parks as part of there commute I am especially interested if people ever stopped to enjoy the parks they travel though or whether they use any services that the parks may offer e.g. water fountains or say the serpentine gallery in Hyde park, and if any one has any ideas as to how the parks could be may more bike friendly,
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Jon.

I ride through Richmond Park on my commute. I use the tarmac path that runs from Ham Gate to the Pen Ponds car park and the Royal Ballet School. I can't say I use any of the facilities in the park it's just a nice quiet route with no cars or pedestrians at the times I use it (~07:30 & ~19:00).

If you wanted to make the park more bike friendly I guess you could close it to motor vehicles, or keep the vehicle gates closed until after the rush hour. It could do with more off-road bike trails but that's not really relevant to commuting :-)

I ride through a bit of Blackheath common and then down through Greenwich park on the first leg of my commute. A Dedicated bike path, which you could really hammer down without the fear of pedestrians or cars would be good through greenwich park. On Blackheath it would be great if there was a bike lane which was cut off from the road (a curb type thing) as the road is quite narrow and the cars tend to block the way, which is really annoying as it would be a fast section otherwise. There ya go, thats my piece!