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Photo listing: cycleways (problem)

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Cyclescape thread - 'Turning from Hills Road onto Glisson Road going east, there’s a “cycles only” lane on the left-hand side, with a concrete separate from traffic in the other direction. The camber is extremely steep in the cycle gap, and … [more]

Cyclescape thread - 'Turning from Hills Road onto Glisson Road going east, there’s a “cycles only” lane on the left-hand side, with a concrete separate from traffic in the other direction. The camber is extremely steep in the cycle gap, and … [more]

Bizarre markings on the busway as the whole thing is useable for cycling.

Bizarre markings on the busway as the whole thing is useable for cycling.

Remove the completely unnecessary chicane here. All it does is encourage people to ride over the grass and does nothing for safety as it's a hazard for tandems and cycles with trailers. It's not LTN 1/20 compliant either.

No sign here for the route to Addenbrooke's - which will probably be like this for a couple of years while Cambridge South station is being built.

Cycle path alongside Busway just ends with no signs to direct riders to the route alongside the A1309. Just needs a few signs.

Flooding of the subway under Barnwell Road, Cambridge

Flooded underpass - about a foot deep of probably very unpleasant water. This is the subway underneath Barnwell Road. Reported at: https://highwaysreporting.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ where there are already a lot of reports for this … [more]

The worst recent obstructions on Love Lane (including #191999 / #192002) have been cleared, but they haven't touched this which one might not notice (until too late) and where I estimate the headroom at about 1.8m.

Love Lane is a designated cycle route according to the blue signs (albeit not according to the council's map). 'Headroom' in the middle of the path here was ~1.0m, and at the edge of the path ~1.3m. This was the worst bit as of 14/03/23 … [more]

Love Lane is a designated cycle route according to the blue signs (albeit not according to the council's map). 'Headroom' in the middle of the path here was ~1.0m, and at the edge of the path ~1.3m. This was the worst bit as of 14/03/23 … [more]

Greenway proposals show a 3metre-wide shared path either side of this bridge, but 'retain the structure' and say nothing at all about the barriers which must be hazardous after dark.

Greenway proposals show a 3metre-wide shared path either side of this bridge, but 'retain the structure' and say nothing at all about the barriers which must be hazardous after dark.

Markings that give the impression this is a one-way cycleway in the contraflow direction.

Amazingly the Barnwell Road cycleway just dumps cyclists on the road at the worst possible place. There isn't even a sign to the shared-use path to the left on Newmarket Road.

This section of the Maintenance Track's busway has been sectioned off as it is so dangerous.

The cycleway on Newmarket Road at the crossing to Coldham's Common is flooded. The extent of the problem means that cyclists wishing to avoid the puddle are forced into the busy motor traffic lane. This can be a tricky and difficult … [more]

East Road cycleway, suggests that the footway should be used from here. Also the footway cycleway appears to be marked as one way.

Newly segregated stretch of cycle lane - with a car the driver of which reversed into the clearly closed lay-by and went into Mackays.

The lay-by has been closed as part of the newly segregated stretch of cycle lane - but the car indicating left is about to reverse into it.

This looks dangerous to me - cars for the Grafton Centre car park cutting across the newly segregated stretch of cycle lane.

Improvements needed on both routes to link from Coton via the M11 bridge to Eddington.

There isn't a good place to move from carriageway to the wide section of shared-use path in order to bypass vehicle queues for the lights and reach the cycle advance box (though there should be space on carriageway between the two lanes of … [more]

Dropped kerb to move from shared-use path to cycle advance box doesn't make it easy to get towards the far side of the box if turning right towards Fulbourn.

The advisory cycle lane heading westwards here encourages close passes from cars, there often isn't space to pass safely, and the road surface is poor.

Signposted Love Lane cycle route ends at narrow not-shared footway with fence etc blocking direct access to the road. Uncontrolled 'crossing' is to the right. Car park is private land but a flush kerb into it would be a welcome … [more]

Not on a signed cycle route (that's Love Lane nearby), but shown on the council cycle map. Multiple entrances to chipshop premises on the right. Very common to see bikes locked to the chicane, sometimes obstructing it, because there's no … [more]

Subsidences causing cracking around cattle grid

Subsidence causing hump and cracking on approach to cattle grid

Cracking in Chisholm Trail 6 months after opening

Cracking on Chisholm Trail 6 months after opening

Cycle lanes on this road are unprotected so obviously fill up with parked cars. Upgrade this road to have protected bike paths so this can't happen

Continue this cycle path all the way along Eddington Avenue instead of it turning into a pavement halfway down this section of street

Fix the junction geometry so that cars are forced to slow and face the cycle path at right angles at the crossing. At the moment drivers have to look backwards over their left shoulder due to the angle between Turing Way and Eddington Ave

Add a cycle lane connection across this junction from Eddington Avenue -> Eddington Avenue northbound. Currently there are only connections for cars and pedestrians, both of which are confusing and dangerous to use when cycling

Convert Adams Road into a Dutch-style bicycle-street ('fietsstraat') i.e. priority for bikes, with cars as guests for access only.

There is a chicane between Adams Road and the cycle way, with priority given to cars driving to Wilberforce Road. These priorities are wrong because the cycle way gets substantially more traffic than Wilberforce Rd. Suggest adding a modal … [more]

Awkwardly placed gate and well-used desire-line route to Trumpington Community College

Someone thought it was worthwhile designating a few metres of this narrow path as shared use. Not fit for purpose.

Flooded - due to blocked drain on the cycleway at this bus stop bypass.

The cycle lane leads to a Cyclists Dismount sign and a pedestrian gate at the rear of Homerton College.

Accumulated mud has left only a narrow stretch of this shared use cycleway available.

A shame not to have a double cattle grid here on the Chisholm Trail.

Dreadfully restrictive junction arrangement on the link between the Chisholm Trail and NCN route 51 - many people will be cutting across the grass to the right rather than turning so sharply on the asphalt.

Dreadfully restrictive junction arrangement on the link between the Chisholm Trail and NCN route 51.

These triangular panels do not fit correctly and are each only held in place by two bolts, whereas there are holes for four. I asked a pair of men in hi-viz about this and one of them said his team had added the cable ties in the other … [more]

First Blood! New graffiti on day 4. See #177043.

Leaves on the busway cycleway.

Riders coming from behind the camera wanting to follow straight on need to cut the corner shown where the bike is parked. See https://twitter.com/frankshad/status/1450527117914087440?s=21 See #179208.

When I first saw the disappointing final design for the junction of Histon & Victoria Road, this is what I feared would happen. Even worse, it only took me a few minutes to photo a left-hook near-miss example. It's just a matter of time … [more]

A delivery to the premises on Midsummer Common temporarily blocks the path.

Missing sign - the cycle route to central Cambridge turns right here.

There's a shared-use route on the far side of the road, but the route from the Robin Hood junction on this side just seems to vaporise.

It's not clear what happens here to the new shared-use path from the Robin Hood junction.

Repair the path suface: Baldy potholed and when wet difficult to see if we can safely ride through the puddles.

Junction very confusing. Is it legal to cycle on the pavements around the edges as one corner says yes, the other say nothing. Traffic lights have no cycling images so not clear if can be cycled. Not good to have cyclists mixing it with … [more]

Overhanging tree reported at: https://highwaysreporting.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/?id=00369370

One inch upstand at turn into side road, see #167163.

One inch upstand at turn into side road, see #167163.

Short gap in the segregated cycleway, to the far side of the hedgeline - it's a bit pointless.

No indication that the cycle route continues on the (rather broken-up) shared-use path ahead - many cyclists must continue on the road.

Nightingale Avenue modal filter - eventually I suppose the pedestrian crossing will have to be moved to allow a straight-across movement for cyclists to Red Cross Lane.

No grit at this junction near Cambridge railway station.

“SLOW” but no grit.

“SLOW” but no grit.

Ice on the footway/cycleway at the top of this busway bridge over the railway, where there’s a shadow from the wall.

Ice on the footway/cycleway at the top of this busway bridge over the railway, where there’s a shadow from the wall.

Very slippery ice in the shadow of this bridge.

Dreadful design that allows motor vehicle storage to block access to the path.

The so-called 'strategic cycleway' to the Trumpington Park development.

Start of the so-called 'strategic cycleway' to the Trumpington Park development.

The cycle counter barometer on Parker’s Piece is blank on both sides - so no way of knowing the number of “Cyclists this year”. Additional comments at: https://twitter.com/simon_nuttall/status/1344778875155456000?s=21

We ought to be grateful for the gritting, but it's not right to see a truck driving along the cycleways in Eddington scattering salt. A much smaller vehicle should be used. Cycleways are not for motor traffic of any kind in my view! It … [more]

Poor drainage on Huntingdon Road. Reported at: https://highwaysreporting.cambridgeshire.gov.uk/ reference: 00354582 Update: I was a bit surprised to get a reply from them on 2 June 2021 (i.e. more than five months later) to say: "We are … [more]

What a shame the cycleway wasn't raised and given priority over the car park access roads.

Flooding and leaf mulch by the Vicar's Brook

Just where cyclists need help, at one of Cambridge's worst roundabouts, the cycleway just ends.

The Trumpington 'strategic cycleway'. Still mud, years after the houses have been occupied.

Trumpington 'strategic cycleway': leaves and gravel

Trumpington 'strategic cycleway' surface: gravel, leaves and evidence of slippage

Trumpington 'strategic cycleway'.

End of the 'strategic cycleway': gravel and right-angles. More crap from a crappy developer.

Path is too narrow and some land reclamation is needed

Path is too narrow and some land reclamation is needed

Path is too narrow and some land reclamation is needed

Path is too narrow, but there is space for widening

Path is too narrow, but there is space for some widening

Path is too narrow, but there is some space for widening

Set-back crossing, but lacks priority. Had it been designed with priority and surfaced accordingly, it would be Dutch quality

Tins path a bit narrow in parts

Cycleway crossing without proper priority (only surfacing)

Cycleway on Huntingdon Road - these car storage spaces should have been moved to the sideroads

This section of cycleway has been resurfaced and the stud lights have vanished - the second time this has happened. It also needs clearing of dead leaf mush.

This path is going to have to be surfaced and improved for cycling soon.

The cycle marking is facing the wrong way round.

Barriers here are totally unnecessary and the priority should be for the major route (the cycleway) not 12 houses in a cul-de-sac

Barrier and missing flush kerb. Remove barrier, add flush kerb, surface properly and widen for bidirectional use and distancing.

The central divider means there isn't much space for people either walking or cycling and visibility at the blind corner is terrible. In a survey of 15 users none of them liked having the path divided. Remove the divider.

Path impeded by barriers. Prevents distancing and is difficult for cycles. Remove barriers.

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