Cycling in Cambridge
Cambridge has the highest levels of cycling in the UK, with about 25% of commuter journeys and an estimated 20% of journeys in general.
Cambridge was awarded Cycling Demonstration Town status in 2008 and that led to £5 million investment in cycling over a 3 year period.
There are many good quality facilities for cyclists and walkers, e.g. the many specialised bridges which create shortcuts to many areas. But there are also many problems remaining, and a legacy of car-orientated streets.
The main group campaigning for cycling in the area is Cambridge Cycling Campaign, the largest group outside London.
Two of their members are the creators of CycleStreets, and the system is based on the journey planner and photomap which was launched in June 2006 on Cambridge Cycling Campaign's website.
CTC Cambridge organise regular rides in the area.
Latest photos of the area
See also a full list of photos in this area.
Narrow Lane on Cambridge Retail Park, and there's a 5 mph sign. (You need to be pretty skilled to cycle as slow as that!)
Narrow cycle lane at Cambridge Retail park with a blue advisory sign that reads: Cyclists use cycle lane only
Vanishing point The white line goes right up to the kerb where there's a lamp post at which point the cyclist disappears!
The narrow cycle lane markings on each side both suggest to ride away from the camera, but this is not a one-way section of the car park.
The narrow cycle lane markings on each side both suggest to ride away from the camera, but this is not a one-way section of the car park.
The narrow cycle lane markings on each side both suggest to ride away from the camera, but this is not a one-way section of the car park.
Cambridge Retail Park Advisory sign suggests that cyclists stick to that narrow lane. "Cyclists use cycle lane only" and there's a 5 mph sign.
Newly marked narrow cycle lanes on Cambridge Retail Park. The white line goes right up to that kerb at which point the cyclist vanishes!
Cambridge Retail Park A new narrow cycle lane has been marked out, narrower than the space allocated to the footway. Narrow cycle lanes draw cyclists to the edge of the road where they are less visible to vehicles parking / unparking.
The three load-bearing blocks, and how they relate to the curved sides, of the Chisholm Trail river bridge.
Neat cut in the path isn't new - it was already visible in July, maybe earlier - but it's a bit more noticeable now. I don't think it's the location of the old cattlegrid - that was at the end of the boardwalk.
Something has been built, and covered in plastic sheet, behind the row of piles - but it's not one of the 8 culvert sections which are still waiting in the compound.
“Stay safe on the bridge - Go by car” say some Mill Road traders. Utterly negative message to be turning away potential customers with. How about campaigning positively instead for improved signage, short-stay customer car parking ou ... [more]
Chunky timber (?) sections occupying a plausible location for a culvert for realigned brook under ncn51
Dead end signs now in place at experimental modal filters. Just missing an 'Except Cycles' sign although the cycling direction sign is almost as good.
Taller piles, and the hole they contain is beginning to look big enough for a culvert on the new brook alignment. Meanwhile, detailed (cosmetic?) brickwork at the end of the jetty.
No, not digging a hole: material going from the heap and into the hole beyond it. More prep for embankment?
Somewhere in there, I think, is the part of the brook that must be realigned to make room for the embankment towards the Chisholm Trail river bridge
Flowers at the site on the busway two years on from a fatal crash: see #102153 Messages from colleagues, family and friends.
The Silver Street bus gate is now operational full time in both directions - so Cambridgeshire County Council has closed the left-turn lane on Queen's Road. So cyclists (who are allowed to turn left) are forced into what is now a single nar ... [more]
The Silver Street bus gate is now operational full time in both directions - so Cambridgeshire County Council has closed the left-turn lane on Queen's Road. So cyclists (who are allowed to turn left) are forced into what is now a single nar ... [more]
If you want to close a road except to cyclists, it seems rather counter-intuitive to put the concrete blocks right in the cycle lane. Maybe the permanent fixtures will give a clearer message.
Here we go again... the point of the modal filter is that Bateman St is not closed, it is very much open except at one point to motor vehicles - but Cambridgeshire's highways department can't be expected to grasp that.
I don't know if it's connected to Covid-19, but this cycle parking area at St Mary's School has been cleared out.
Fresh excavation of river bank where ncn51 jetty will rejoin - and lots of fresh material ready to be put somewhere.
Years of campaigning by Camcycle have finally paid off! Yellow lines, will mean fines for anyone parking on the pavement have finally been installed. This persistent offender has finally got a ticket.
Years of campaigning by Camcycle have finally paid off! Yellow lines, will mean fines for anyone parking on the pavement have finally been installed.
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