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Photo # Photo Caption Categorisation
186097 Photo #186097

Cracked surfacing to cycle path. Coton path bridge across the M11. West sound.
This path is a disgrace, it was closed for 2 years in order to re-surface the bridge approach ramps and this is the state of them less than a year later. Easily wide enough to catch a wheel in the dark, an accident waiting to happen.
#186096

Pothole:
Problem
186096 Photo #186096

Cracked surfacing to cycle path. Coton path bridge across the M11.
This path is a disgrace, it was closed for 2 years in order to re-surface the bridge approach ramps and this is the state of them less than a year later. Easily wide enough to catch a wheel in the dark, an accident waiting to happen.
#186097

Pothole:
Problem
175675 Photo #175675

Millennium Bridge

Cycleway:
Good practice
175674 Photo #175674

The Millennium Bridge

Cycleway:
Good practice
175672 Photo #175672

Bootham Bar

Road environment:
Infrastructure
175671 Photo #175671

Minster Yard

Road environment:
Misc
175334 Photo #175334

Not very cycle friendly barriers. Breathe in, pull your elbows in and don't ride with panniers if you want to get through these.

Obstruction:
Problem
175333 Photo #175333

Overhanging brambles make half this path width unusable

Cycleway:
Problem
175332 Photo #175332

Very poor, unimproved roadside footway re-badged as a shared use path. Dreadful concrete surface, too narrow, vegetation encroaching. The cyclist in the picture has wisely chosen not to use it but this is a nasty stretch of road with HGVs thundering along it to the docks.

Cycleway:
Problem
173682 Photo #173682

Boston Manor Road cyclepath

Location: Northfield, Ealing (England, UK)

Unfortunately it is not all as nice as this. Some very "interesting" manouvres required at the station and discriminatory give way markings at bus stops. Brentford, London

Cycleway:
Good practice
113755 Photo #113755

The new "anti-terror" barriers on Kings Parade. I can't help thinking that they were really motivated by a rather cynical desire to make life more awkward for people cycling through the town.

The gap is far too narrow for two way cycling and frequently blocked by tour groups admiring the College architecture.

For any aspiring terrorists, the chain holding the gate shut doesn't look like it would put up much resistance to a pair of bolt croppers.

Obstruction:
Problem
113390 Photo #113390

After the path has been "fixed"... still full of water filled potholes

Pothole:
Problem
113389 Photo #113389

After the path has been "fixed"... still full of water filled potholes

Pothole:
Problem
113388 Photo #113388

After the path has been "fixed" again... still a crater field

Pothole:
Problem
113387 Photo #113387

The cost of poorly maintained cycling infrastructure...
Frame snapped in two at the bottom bracket, from the battering it receives from Newnham's potholes.

Pothole:
Problem
111527 Photo #111527

Senate Passage

Location: Cambridge, Cambridge District (England, UK)

Cambridge

Cycleway:
Infrastructure
111493 Photo #111493

Fixie

Location: Cambridge, Cambridge District (England, UK)

outside Corpus Christi College

Road environment:
Infrastructure
111408 Photo #111408

Blazing vine

Location: , Cambridge District (England, UK)

England can't compete with New England's autumn colours but all around Cambridge the vines are catching fire. Most of them are on venerable college buildings, but this beauty is on the wall of an early 20th century workshop building, now a dance studio. #FlikrFriday #WarmColours

Road environment:
Infrastructure
111135 Photo #111135

Battered railings encroaching further into a narrow shared path. Why exactly are they needed? The next crossing does not have railings.

Obstruction:
Problem
111134 Photo #111134

Burst water main, not being fixed. Grantchester High Street

Obstruction:
Problem
111133 Photo #111133

This was already a very tight and awkward gap to negotiate. Knuckle crusher rails were installed last year to punish anybody who didn't get their alignment quite right. This bollard has now been added to make it even more difficult and make a tight gap even tighter.

Obstruction:
Problem
111132 Photo #111132

This was already a very tight and awkward gap to negotiate. Knuckle crusher rails were installed last year to punish anybody who didn't get their alignment quite right. This bollard has now been added to make it even more difficult and make a tight gap even tighter.

Obstruction:
Problem
111104 Photo #111104

The potholed and flooded route to Grantchester. It doesn't get better.

Track:
Problem
109539 Photo #109539

As if this gate wasn't awkward enough to negotiate before, somebody has bolted a post onto the narrow cattle grid.
Why is there so much resistance to making this busy, popular route to Granchester cycle friendly?

Obstruction:
Problem
109339 Photo #109339

Sometimes you just have to give way to bigger traffic

Stourbridge Common

Obstruction:
Event
109202 Photo #109202

Riverside

Cambridge Museum of Technology

Destination:
Infrastructure
109201 Photo #109201

King's Parade

Road environment:
Infrastructure
109200 Photo #109200

Which would you choose? Sheffield stand or two tier racks

It is a unanimous vote for Sheffield stands. Much more popular. Cycle parking in the basement of 50/60 Station Road.

Cycle parking:
Infrastructure
108799 Photo #108799

Riding the flood bank

Norton Marsh, Brancaster

Track:
Infrastructure
108798 Photo #108798

Elephant and Castle roundabout with segregated cycle lanes on the circulating carriageway and approach arms

London

Road environment:
Infrastructure
106909 Photo #106909

Two's company

Trumpington Street, Cambridge

Road environment:
Misc
106693 Photo #106693

On the towpath

Location: , Fen Ditton (England, United Kingdom)

Track:
Infrastructure
106692 Photo #106692

On the towpath

Location: , Fen Ditton (England, United Kingdom)

Track:
Infrastructure
104426 Photo #104426

Concrete surfaced track through Coton Nature Reserve. It cuts off a section of fast and narrow road into Coton.

Cycleway:
Infrastructure
104200 Photo #104200

Top of Chapel Hill

Location: , South Cambridgeshire District (England, United Kingdom)

Road environment:
Infrastructure
103824 Photo #103824

The Grantchester Meadows path just doesn't get any better. This is the condition after the County Council have allegedly "fixed" it. All it needs is a tarmac path between the end of the surfaced road to the start of the surfaced path. I am at a loss to see why that is so difficult to achieve. #103819

Pothole:
Problem
103819 Photo #103819

The Grantchester Meadows path just doesn't get any better. This is the condition after the County Council have allegedly "fixed" it. All it needs is a tarmac path between the end of the surfaced road to the start of the surfaced path. I am at a loss to see why that is so difficult to achieve. #103824

Pothole:
Problem
103476 Photo #103476

Riding the path from Grantchester to Haslingfield. Only a public footpath on this side of the M11, the motorway bridge is stepped and not suitable for cycling. There is a crying need for a decent route between these villages.

Location: , Grantchester (England, United Kingdom)

Grantchester, Cambridge

Other:
Infrastructure
103475 Photo #103475

The ramped, stepped bridge between Grantchester and Haslingfield.

The lack of legitimate cycle routes connecting these two villages is a disgrace.

Location: England, United Kingdom

Grantchester, Cambridge

Other:
Problem
101743 Photo #101743

Cycling to the beach along the coastal path

Location: , Burnham Overy Staithe (England, United Kingdom)

Burnham Overy Staithe in Norfolk

Track:
Infrastructure
101625 Photo #101625

Dead trees, ivy strewn, collapsing into the Love Lane path. Particularly hazardous at night.

Obstruction:
Problem
101624 Photo #101624

Hedgerow saplings collapsing across the path at waist height, forming a soggy barrier in wet weather.

This path, like so many, needs better maintenance, particularly of summer growth.

Obstruction:
Problem
101616 Photo #101616

Fall hazard. Steel borehole lining and cap left projecting over an inch above the path surface next to the busy A606 at the M11 intersection

Pothole:
Problem
101615 Photo #101615

Fall hazard. Steel borehole lining and cap left projecting over an inch above the path surface next to the busy A606 at the M11 intersection

Pothole:
Problem
101289 Photo #101289

Grantchester Meadows path. Thistles and nettles growing out of the fence by 1m. These will reach half way across the new narrow shared path, visible in the background.
Narrow paths, encroachment by vegetation, these are not new problems. Why are we still building shared paths like this?

[Update - this work was started without any consultation or public announcement, and especially without any reference to the Greenways project. Madness. It was stopped after local protests.]

Cycleway:
Problem
101288 Photo #101288

Grantchester Meadows path. New 1.5m wide path under construction, tight to the fence. This will be just as unsatisfactory as the existing narrow path alongside Skater's Fen.
Why such a narrow path when there is so much space available? And whatwill be done to prevent people from parking on it?


[Update - this work was started without any consultation or public announcement, and especially without any reference to the Greenways project. Madness. It was stopped after local protests.]

Cycleway:
Problem
100035 Photo #100035

Cambridge Rules 1848

Sculpture. Parker's Piece

The rules of football were first written down in Cambridge in 1848. This new sculpture was unveiled in May 2018 to commemorate the event. It is inscribed with the rules in many different languages

Destination:
Misc
100032 Photo #100032

Parker's Piece and its lamp posts.

Nice path although too narrow.

Cycleway:
Good practice
100028 Photo #100028

Jesus Green

People path

Cycleway:
Good practice
99796 Photo #99796

The end!

Arriving at Southwold Pier

Cambridge to Southwold ride

Road environment:
Infrastructure
99795 Photo #99795

Arriving in Bacton

Road environment:
Infrastructure
99794 Photo #99794

Burrough Green (England, United Kingdom)

Road environment:
Infrastructure
99793 Photo #99793

Along the Cam path

Midsummer Common

Cycleway:
Good practice
98908 Photo #98908

Sweetheart Abbey

Location: , New Abbey (Scotland, United Kingdom)

Sweetheart Abbey

Destination:
Misc
98907 Photo #98907

Caerlaverock Castle

Location: , Caerlaverock Castle (Scotland, United Kingdom)
NCN7
Caerlaverock Castle

Destination:
Misc
98906 Photo #98906

Tall ship

Location: , Glencaple (Scotland, United Kingdom)

Glencaple

Destination:
Misc
98905 Photo #98905

Disused railway viaduct at the end of the railway path NCN 7 Dumfries

Cycleway:
Infrastructure
98904 Photo #98904

Solway Firth Panorama

Location: Scotland, United Kingdom

NCN 7

Destination:
Infrastructure
98903 Photo #98903

No cycling across the suspension bridge but you can walk across and avoid the busy road bridges.
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Other:
Infrastructure
98902 Photo #98902

Dumfries Old Bridge

Stepped access so not suitable for cycling but does allow people to avoid the busy road crossing.

Road environment:
Infrastructure
98901 Photo #98901

The Old Military Road

Location: , Drumsleet (Scotland, United Kingdom)

NCN 7

Road environment:
Infrastructure
98610 Photo #98610

Christ's Pieces

Location: , Cambridge (England, United Kingdom)

Cycling signed as not permitted on Christ's Pieces but restrictions are widely disregarded away from the main path, without causing any apparent problems.

Track:
Infrastructure
98153 Photo #98153

Contraflow cycling

Norwich Street, Cambridge

Fantastic!
Such a small, simple, but incredibly important breakthrough. No entry, except cycles... in the UK! Thank you to whoever is responsible.

Road environment:
Infrastructure
98128 Photo #98128

Senate House

Location: , Cambridge (England, United Kingdom)

Senate House

Road environment:
Good practice
98127 Photo #98127

Trinity Street

Location: , Cambridge (England, United Kingdom)

Trinity Street

Road environment:
Good practice
98126 Photo #98126

Parker's Piece

Location: , Cambridge (England, United Kingdom)

Parker's Piece

Cycleway:
Infrastructure
97831 Photo #97831

Parkers Piece

Location: , Cambridge (England, United Kingdom)

A very soggy commute

Cycleway:
Misc
97560 Photo #97560

River gate

Looking through to the Coe fen path

Newnham

Cycleway:
Infrastructure
97559 Photo #97559

Sheep's Green bridge

Very narrow and busy but useful traffic free river crossing

Cambridge

Cycleway:
Infrastructure
97547 Photo #97547

Load em up

Bakfiets

Cambridge Market

Bicycle:
Misc
97545 Photo #97545

Blades and buggies

Riverside shared path

Jesus Green

Cycleway:
Good practice
97544 Photo #97544

Something fishy

Cycle parking opposite the Old Cavendish Lab, Old School Lane

Cycle parking:
Good practice
97060 Photo #97060

Triumphal Arch, Innsbruk

Location: Hotting, Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria)

Triumphal Arch, Innsbruk

Road environment:
Infrastructure
97059 Photo #97059

Along the Inn

Location: Hotting, Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria)

Cycle path next to the River Inn, Innsbruk

Dutch-style cycleway:
Good practice
97058 Photo #97058

Innsteg bridge

Location: Hotting, Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria)

Innsbruck

Cycleway:
Good practice
97057 Photo #97057

Innsbruck underpass
Well lit, but still a bit gloomy
Location: Hotting, Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria)

Innsbruck

Cycleway:
Good practice
97056 Photo #97056

Weiherburgsteg bridge
Covered bridge
Location: Hotting, Innsbruck (Tyrol, Austria)

Innsbruck

Cycleway:
Good practice
96828 Photo #96828

Wintry commute

Sheeps Green

Bicycle:
Misc
96602 Photo #96602

Towpath

Location: , Fen Ditton (England, United Kingdom)

Cycleway:
Infrastructure
95805 Photo #95805

Jesus Lane

Road environment:
Infrastructure
95792 Photo #95792

The County RoW officer says that local residents object to the surface of the Grantchester Meadows path here being repaired "because it would encourage parking". Well the state of it clearly doesn't deter parking, people park on the bits with fewest potholes and force anybody on foot or bike to splash through the puddles.

Cycleway:
Problem
95733 Photo #95733

Exercising the dog

On the bridleway between Barton and Grantchester

Cycleway:
Infrastructure
95444 Photo #95444

High Viz

Trinity Street

Road environment:
Infrastructure
95321 Photo #95321

For as long as I can remember the end of Red Cross Lane has been made awkward to negotiate by anybody trying to get through to Addenbrookes from the East by bike - gated, no dropped kerbs, rough surface, barriers to stop you accessing the road from the path. cambridge.cyclestreets.net/location/33236/

Last week I came down Red Cross Lane and found this. Wow, brilliant, just what was needed!

Thank you to whoever finally made this happen.

Cycleway:
Good practice
95297 Photo #95297

Newnham crater field

The start of the Grantchester Meadows path, destroyed by use as a casual car park

Cycleway:
Problem
89674 Photo #89674

Not much respect for speed limits in evidence on "New Road" in Barton. The school is just around that bend, as is the post office, pub and village centre.

Enforcement:
Problem
89311 Photo #89311

Garret Hostel Lane

Cycleway:
Good practice
89310 Photo #89310

Garret Hostel Bridge

A rare shared use path with enough width to cycle comfortably. If the Cambridge News is to be believed the County want to stop allowing people to cycle on it over fears that a tourist will get bumped into the river

Cycleway:
Good practice
88663 Photo #88663

Riverside bridge in the sunshine

Cycleway:
Good practice
88605 Photo #88605

Mums and toddlers at the Red Lion

Cargo bikes a plenty

Bicycle:
Misc
88604 Photo #88604

Please do not leave bicycles here

Cycle parking:
Infrastructure
88400 Photo #88400

Advanced green light for cyclists
At Hills Road / Gonville Place junction in Cambridge

Road environment:
Good practice
85874 Photo #85874

Cambridge Castle Hill Junction

Road environment:
Infrastructure
85873 Photo #85873

Cambridge Castle Hill Junction

Road environment:
Infrastructure
85872 Photo #85872

St John's Street cycle parking

Cycle parking:
Good practice
85871 Photo #85871

Cycle parking outside Guildhall

Cycle parking:
Good practice
85758 Photo #85758

There is a nasty, blind dog-leg on the Tesco Fulbourn path. I was hit, head on, by another rider as I came round this bend earlier this summer.

The path continues straight on, to the left (see lady just emerging on a bike), but visibility is blocked by the hedge in front.

There is also a path emerging from the back of Tesco car park, where the lady on the right is about to disappear. Visibility approaching this path is poor from the west, due to vegetation, and is non-existent from the east.

Both of these issues can be easily addressed.

1. Cut back the hedge in front to give clear visibility.
2. Re-align the path to give a smooth dog-leg instead of the very abrupt realignment currently present.
3. Re-locate the path into Tesco so that it is away from the corner (to the west 50-100m), and cut back the hedge to improve visibility.

There is

Cycleway:
Problem
85757 Photo #85757

Going fishing!

Much improved bollard arrangement where Carter Bridge ramp joins Devonshire Road.

Personally I would have liked to see a centerline marked for 5m up the ramp to help warn of the bollard, but this arrangement is as clear as anyone could expect.

Mind you, people still ride the "wrong" side of the post,, like this guy going home from a fishing trip.

Cycleway:
Good practice
85748 Photo #85748

Gate leading to Grantchester Meadows and the Newnham path

Cycleway:
Infrastructure
85747 Photo #85747

Coe Fen bridge

Location: Newnham, Cambridge (England, United Kingdom)

Coe Fen bridge

Cycleway:
Infrastructure

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