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ELEVEN.. New developments around Cambridge
Maintaining levels of cycling
It is important that we maintain the city’s unique cycling culture by encouraging newcomers to the area to cycle, both by providing a cycle-friendly road layout and by providing other incentives like training
Cycle use in Cambridge is ahead of other UK centres, but Cambridge’s love affair with the bicycle is almost a quirk of social history. There is a culture of cycling in Cambridge which stretches back many years and has been passed down the generations. Today, cycling has simply become the accepted norm for many city residents.
The proposed increase of almost 50,000 new dwellings in the Cambridge area over the coming years, equates to around 125,000 people. Even at an optimistic car ownership ratio of one vehicle per house the prospects of gridlock are all too real.
These new homes bring new people to the area, people who may not necessarily have the same predisposition to cycle as those who have lived here for many years. It is important that we maintain the city’s unique cycling culture by encouraging newcomers to the area to cycle, both by providing a cycle-friendly road layout and by providing other incentives like training.
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