Drivers ARE allowed to park cars in cycle lane in Cambridge, the UK’s most ‘cycle friendly’ city

WHat's really needed is a reduction of traffic. If there was another road to get to the east of the railway (home to various businesses and caravan parks) then the level crossing on Fen Road could be shut, removing the aggresive traffic associated with that. Close Chesterton High Street to through motor traffic (except the Citi 2 bus) and you get rid of those using Chesterton to avoid Milton Road and potentially make the High Street a nicer place.

And ban people from parking on the road, everywhere. At all times.

I use this cycle lane and it is an utter farce.

It is now considerably less safe than it was before they redid this road, and given that a lot of parents use it to pick up children from the two nurseries/school on the road it is inherently a terrible piece of design.

The Greater Cambridge Partnership should be utterly, utterly ashamed.

"The corner outside a busy row of takeaways and shops is a designated cycle lane, but, at the assembly meeting of the Greater Cambridge Partnership (formerly City Deal) last Wednesday (July 19), delegates agreed it was only an “advisory cycle lane” and that cars should be allowed to park in it." (from the story in the Cambridge News)

Odd that as the GCP arent the highway authority for Cambridge and have no powers to designate anything on a highway.

Around the corner from the barbers in the photo is the HQ for Camsight, a charity that helps visually impaired people. Now I understand why so many of the clients turn up in cars! I imagine with so many cars up on the kerb walking must be a nightmare. Cycling is important, but if even pedestrian access is severely compromised then something is clearly wrong!

forget building some wishy washy segregated lane, just take one whole existing lane from motorists to use as a cycling lane, divvy it into two. On the remaining driving lane that only goes in one direction motorists can park up on it for all they're worth. priority for people on bikes wanting to cross to rejoin any of OUR lanes down a street or adjoining road. Make it massively difficult to drive anywhere and see how the fuckers like that!.

better yet, if you don't have a garage or a driveway, you can't have a car unless you're registered disabled, and I don't mean those whom can seemingly afford a £40/50/60k car on disability either!

Story of the uk.....

Stop sucking up to the developer and just build the ****ING segregated cycle way and parking! How hard can it be to get this stuff right for everyone!?!?

There's a simple solution - the cycle lane needs to be wide enough to allow a cyclist to pass a parked car with the door open.  Let's say 1.8m for the car, 0.8m for the door and 1.5m for the cyclist that's 4.1m.  Is the road 2-way then that's another 4.1m for the opposite direction. How wide is the carriageway?  Oh dear, I don't think there's any space left for anything else!

Just get a local cycling club to have a maintenance session blocking each end of the road...

I like the photo showing the considerate car drivers pulled up on the pavement to ensure that no one in a wheelchair or pushing a pram can get past. Reminds me of the Copenhagenize articles about the "arrogance of space" showing how much disproportionate space in a city car drivers are allotted http://www.copenhagenize.com/2017/05/arrogance-of-space-copenhagen-hans....

Reminds me of when some fairly  modest cycle lane provisions and parking restrictions were proposed for the Gloucester Road in Bristol, with the shopkeepers up in arms, predicting that their businesses would close as they were dependent on drivers stopping outside.  Sustrans researched the shoppers and discovered that the vast majority walked or cycled to the shops, and drivers were a small minority.  So of course, the idea was dropped.  Can't have drivers inconvenienced can we.

Quote:

“We understand the importance of access for local businesses to thrive. However, by their very nature local businesses appeal to people who live locally within walking and cycling distance.

Would it be beyond the realms of possibility to ask the drivers, in some form of questionnaire, where they had come from, where they are going and where they live?

This would identify the local ones (who will need beating, or at least humiliating, for being lazy fuckers) and passing trade (like my goodself who travels up and down the northwest and stops at shops in strange towns).