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 organize regular rides in the area.
Latest photos of the area
See also a full list of photos in this area.
Fabulously energetic campaign firmly opposing buses on Adams Road, Cambridge. Those links: W chng.it/2KDZGNxMYq 🐦@SaveCycleRoute https://twitter.com/SaveCycleRoute F Save Your Cycle Route https://www.facebook.com/saveyourcyc ... [more]
Pedestrians squeeze through the bollards restricted by pram arms on the left, and a much improved cycle route on the right.
The cycle maps in Cambridge's main cycle park are dated 2008. I'm sure it was agreed that City Rangers would post new maps when they were published by the council, but that seems to have fallen through the cracks.
No idea what this sign is doing here - as the painted marking makes clear, this is a shared-use cycle route.
When I think that a bike left for weeks at these racks has been abandoned then I turn it upside down. This was a Raleigh Chiltern, worth around £70: http://findthatbike.co.uk/search.php?searching=yes&s=chiltern
#CamRideHome night survey looking at the green priority crossing the busway cycleway - the priority should be the other way round given very low level of cross traffic 🤔 https://twitter.com/simon_nuttall/status/11877910905707151 ... [more]
Cutting back vegetation about a year after a rider was killed on this stretch of the busway cycleway.
No longer just a footpath - this should be signed as a route from central Trumpington to the busway and Addenbrooke's
An Elephant Bike - as described in Camcycle's current magazine https://www.camcycle.org.uk/newsletters/144/article29.html
If cyclists could be encouraged to go via the private Latham Close it might do something to alleviate the notorious peak cycle jams at the Brooklands Avenue/Trumpington Road crossing.
If an Except Cyclists plate could be added here (via the private Latham Close) it might do something to alleviate the notorious peak cycle jams at the Brooklands Avenue/Trumpington Road crossing.
The link from New Bit to the Perse Girls School playing fields and Latham Road has been surfaced and greatly improved.
The link from New Bit to the Perse Girls School playing fields and Latham Road has been surfaced and greatly improved.
Blazing vine Location: , Cambridge District (England, UK) England can't compete with New England's autumn colours but all around Cambridge the vines are catching fire. Most of them are on venerable college buildings, but this beauty i ... [more]
BUSWAY CHAOS - FIGHT BACK Energetic campaign about resisting conversion of this very busy cycle route into a busway. Those links: W chng.it/2KDZGNxMYq 🐦@SaveCycleRoute https://twitter.com/SaveCycleRoute F Save Your Cycle ... [more]
These racks are very heavily used and in their desperate need to park securely the bikes are being moved so that more bikes can be attached. The result looks very untidy and is not a great advertisement for more racks, which is what is real ... [more]
An Extinction Rebellion ride heads towards Mill Road from the starting point on Parker's Piece, see #110722.
Shame on the Addenbrooke's site - instead of providing plenty of cycle parking at the new developments here, visitors are having to find places like this to leave their bikes. This is some distance from the main buildings, and provides none ... [more]
A cycle repair workshop on the Addenbrooke's site. Tel: 07414113948 www.campuscyclehub.co.uk (went thru to a domain hosting site when checked on 14 Oct 2019)
Cycle parking area at Addenbrooke's that requires access pass to use. Quite full but not crammed full like everywhere else on site.
The Sheep's Green bridges were closed for a couple of days for maintenance and the only result that I can see is that the ramp to this bridge has been smoothed out.
Battered railings encroaching further into a narrow shared path. Why exactly are they needed? The next crossing does not have railings.
This was already a very tight and awkward gap to negotiate. Knuckle crusher rails were installed last year to punish anybody who didn't get their alignment quite right. This bollard has now been added to make it even more difficult and make ... [more]
This was already a very tight and awkward gap to negotiate. Knuckle crusher rails were installed last year to punish anybody who didn't get their alignment quite right. This bollard has now been added to make it even more difficult and make ... [more]
I applaud the Newnham Bakery taking over a parking space for cycle parking, but I wish they'd installed stands which actually support bikes - it's not that well used as a result.
Display of bikes by Mike Burrows and others at the Cambridge Museum of Technology for the Exploring the Science and Technology of Cycling day in the Cambridge Festival of Cycling.
Parking on the railings and substitute Camcycle stall bike at the Cambridge Museum of Technology for the Exploring the Science and Technology of Cycling day in the Cambridge Festival of Cycling.
There's a telecoms van beyond the End of Road Works sign, but no reason for this stretch of cycle lane to be closed.
Construction site for the Abbey-Chesterton bridge on the Chisholm Trail (and a train from Cambridge North to London)
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