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How to stop pavement parking? “Install bike racks”, say active travel campaigners

The Greater Cambridge Partnership has said that it is willing to consider the idea in the future

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Cambridge Railway Station CyclePoint 15 (copyright Simon MacMichael).JPG

Prolific thief jailed for seven months for stealing bike from railway station

John Bruce Miller, who has several previous convictions for bike theft, was captured on CCTV nicking a bike from Cambridge Station Cycle Park

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Grantchester, Cambridge (CC BY-SA 2.0 DEED/David P Howard/Geograph)

Villagers claim planned cycleway will have a “detrimental aesthetic impact” as local authority sides with majority and moves forward with proposal

At consultation, 73 per cent of village residents opposed the Haslingfield Greenway, consisting of off-road paths and active travel infrastructure, in contrast to the 64 per cent who supported the scheme overall

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Cambridge kerbed cycleway (picture via Cambridgeshire County Council)

“Cyclists deserve far greater priority”: Former council leader calls on local authority to fix broken roads after pothole crash put him in hospital

The former Labour leader and cyclist spent four nights in hospital after his crash and noted that the pothole had been known to the council for months

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Luke Elmer (Cambridgeshire Constabulary)

Moped rider jailed for three years for punching, robbing, and threatening to stab cyclist

19-year-old Luke Elmer and an accomplice targeted the lone cyclist in a “completely unprovoked” attack, breaking his nose and forcing him to hand over his wallet

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Milton Road Cambridge (images by councillor Delowar Hossain/Facebook)

New £24 million road upgrade to be altered over fears cyclists might hit pedestrians on “too narrow and dangerous” footpath

The route features a segregated cycle lane and other upgrades, but leaves the pavement as narrow as 90cm wide in some places

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New cycle-friendly cattle grids fail to stop cows escaping and roaming free on bike path (credit – Hilary Cox Condron, Twitter)

New cycle-friendly cattle grids fail to stop cows escaping and roaming free on bike path, causing “rush hour gridlock”

A councillor said the “very well-meaning scheme” was introduced to allow cyclists and wheelchair users to more easily cross the adapted grids, though one local claimed the council was bowing to the “selfish demands of a handful of cycling extremists”

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Fendon Road, Cambridge, Dutch roundabout (Cambridgeshire County Council)

More collisions at UK’s first Dutch-style roundabout than old layout, figures reveal

There have been 10 collisions, three of them serious, since the infrastructure opened in 2020, however Cambridgeshire County Council also noted that cycling levels have risen by almost 50 per cent and pedestrian use is up 30 per cent

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2022 cycling in ice snow icy road conditions

Councillor feels wrath of “Jordan Peterson and Tories across the land” by saying gritting routes “can be sexist” and “must change” to help cyclists and pedestrians

Councillor Alex Beckett's call to review which roads should be gritted in Cambridgeshire has become the latest local transport issue to reach a wider audience on social media

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Cambridge cyclist (Google Maps)

“Accident waiting to happen”: Cambridge University fellow urges students to follow Highway Code and end “tradition” of ignoring one-way system

Comments come just days after research into 22 years of data from 508 one-way streets found contraflow cycling does not increase crash or casualty rates

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