For more, better and safer cycling in and around Cambridge
Cambridgeshire County Council’s Highways and Transport committee met on 9 March, with one of their agenda items being an update on the overall A14 project. We saw this as being the most appropriate topic under which to present our petition against the new barriers, which has gained over 660 signatories in just a few
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Over the past few weeks we’ve been gathering information about the dangerous barriers that were installed on the new Bar Hill and Swavesey active travel / non-motorised user (NMU) bridges. A new rationalisation for the barriers was sent to us, completely different from the one we received before. Now we know that the officially
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There must be something about the start of the year, because yet again dangerous new barriers have appeared. This time it’s Highways England and Cambridgeshire County Council which have harmed people who simply want to use the newly-built active travel bridges over the A14 at Swavesey and Bar Hill. The officers have wasted money over
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Earlier this week, we sent a letter to Jim O’Sullivan, Chief Executive of Highways England responding to and elaborating on remarks he made at the Parliamentary Transport committee on 23 October. Throughout 2019, we have been campaigning to get Highways England to take seriously its responsibility to non-motorised road users, working with Cambridge MP
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Improving existing road layout can take time and campaigning effort, but new roads should be designed well from the start. Camcycle trustee Matthew Danish is frustrated that Highways England have added another dangerous roundabout crossing on a new junction of the A14. How has this happened in 2019?
Over the weekend I went for a
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Cambridge Cycling Campaign have responded to the A14 consultation pointing out 51 issues that we believe need to be addressed before we could support this proposed scheme. Our full consultation response is available here.
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