For more, better and safer cycling in and around Cambridge
It seems barely possible that the new area around the main Cambridge rail station could get any worse for cyclists and pedestrians, but new plans for development in the car park (buildings B2 and F2 in the ‘Devonshire Quarter’) look set to create more conflict and congestion. At the end of 2018, Camcycle submitted a
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Brookgate has submitted plans for a new building and a multi-storey car park next to the station Cycle Point (18/1678/FUL). We’re submitting a petition to initiate a Development Control Forum to object to several problems with the plans. These include: lack of a clear, convenience and safe cycle route between Devonshire Road and the Guided
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In the application (17/0491/FUL), the Design and Access statement states that this is an “important pedestrian and cycle route through the CB1 development” and therefore the design must be treated accordingly.
The erection of the pavilion here will prevent the use of the area as a safe and convenient through route for cycling. It will
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Camcycle (The Cambridge Cycling Campaign) is well aware that current access to the new Cyclepoint Cycle Park at Cambridge Station is not satisfactory. However, we are also well aware that access should improve as building works are completed. Nevertheless, we suggest that more could be done, in the short term, to make it easier and
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