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Video | Photo | Caption | Categorisation |
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| 101421 |  | Where the path meets the perimeter road the highway engineers provide safe crossi... just kidding, they don't give a shit about you, you're just some schmuck on foot or a bike. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 101420 |  | Eventually the spine path turns into this. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 101419 |  | Path guardian. | Other: Good practice general | |
| 101418 |  | Unmaintained path unceremoniously dumps you onto roadway. Someone left me a trolley, how thoughtful. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 101417 |  | The Spine Path had some nicer parts that were well maintained and landscaped (despite the dry season killing the grass, sadly). | Cycleway: Good practice cycleways | |
| 101416 |  | Path almost gone. Like pushing through the jungle. Except I can hear a very wide and fast-moving roadway on the other side of the hedge. No doubt the roadway is well-maintained, after all, it's for motorists. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 101415 |  | Degraded path. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 101414 |  | Path junction with no visibility splays at all. Clearly not designed for cycling, nor for personal security. Very anti-social design, with the buildings turning their backs and presenting blank walls to the path. Unsurprisingly nobody wants to be here... | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 101413 |  | Access to the library from the path network. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 101412 |  | Part of the network of 'safe' paths within Bar Hill. | Cycleway: Infrastructure cycleways | |
| 101411 |  | One of the entryways to the network of 'safe' paths within the development. Sadly, one of the better ones. | Cycleway: Infrastructure cycleways | |
| 101410 |  | Can you see the entrance into the network of 'safe' paths within the development? | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 101409 |  | Exclusionary barrier blocking one of the main paths inside Bar Hill. Of course everyone just goes onto the grass... | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 101408 |  | Bridge in poor shape along path, steep upstands on either side as path settles. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 101407 |  | The only cycleway connecting to Bar Hill dumps you onto the big wide perimeter road where you are left to fend for yourself against speeding motor traffic. Rather defeats the point of having safe separate paths... | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 101406 |  | exclusionary barrier preventing use of the path by tricycles, mobility scooters or other types of cycles | Obstruction: Problem obstructions | |
| 101405 |  | narrow rutted cycle route to bar hill | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 97830 |  | flooding in the tunnel | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 96500 |  | Someday this may form part of a 'strategic cycleway' on the west side of Hobson's brook. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96499 |  | Someday this may form part of a 'strategic cycleway' on the west side of Hobson's brook. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96498 |  | Someday this may form part of a 'strategic cycleway' on the west side of Hobson's brook. This part was done differently to the others, and it's clearly incomplete. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96497 |  | Someday this may form part of a 'strategic cycleway' on the west side of Hobson's brook. This might be a semi-decent stab at filtered permeability / cycle street network. The bollards are OK. Maybe a little close, and of the unforgiving wooden design, but otherwise OK. They completely failed at building a flush interface between the two surfaces, though. This is quite a sharp jolt, especially for someone in a tricycle or recumbent. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96496 |  | Someday this may form part of a 'strategic cycleway' on the west side of Hobson's brook. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96495 |  | Bridge to the nature reserve, not yet connected to anything on this side. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96494 |  | Interesting desire line, maybe, on the way to the bridge over the brook. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96493 |  | Bridge to the nature reserve -- at least it'll be nice when it's done | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96492 |  | Someday this may form part of a 'strategic cycleway' on the west side of Hobson's brook. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96491 |  | Someday this may form part of a 'strategic cycleway' on the west side of Hobson's brook. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96490 |  | Connection from the future 'strategic cycleway' on the west side of Hobson's brook. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96489 |  | Someday this may form part of a 'strategic cycleway' on the west side of Hobson's brook. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 96483 |  | Ridiculous 'Cyclists dismount and use footway' sign. Meanwhile, the works are preparing to narrow the shared-use path in order to create yet another traffic lane! It's like I stepped into a time machine and ended up back in the 20th century, with the incessant and insane road-widening monster rolling on... | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 96479 |  | Rollercoaster footways, undulating up and down. They had complete freedom of design and lots of space, and yet they managed to build the footway in the worst possible way! | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 96478 |  | New busway junction that prioritises a tiny amount of motor traffic over walking, cycling and public transport. | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 96476 |  | New busway junction that prioritises a tiny amount of motor traffic over walking, cycling and public transport. | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 96475 |  | New busway junction that prioritises a tiny amount of motor traffic over walking, cycling and public transport. | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 96473 |  | New busway junction that prioritises a tiny amount of motor traffic over walking, cycling and public transport. Note that the car has just blown past a sign reading 'No motorised vehicles except buses' | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 96471 |  | New busway junction that prioritises a tiny amount of motor traffic over walking, cycling and public transport. | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 96469 |  | New busway junction that prioritises a tiny amount of motor traffic over walking, cycling and public transport. | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 95758 |  | The bus driver did not break the law here. Toucan crossing appears to show 'green man' at the same time that the bus driver receives a green light. In fact the green man is for the crossing parallel to the bus, off to the left of the photo. This is a user-interface failure, similar to twitter.com/MattTurnerSheff/status/954749924557639680 | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 95757 |  | Newly constructed Cross City Cycling scheme but the '2.2 metre wide' refuge is considerably narrowed by the poor placement of poles. And seems to be a trash collection point as well (probably due to the wind). | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 95443 |  | New crossing of B1102 near Anglesey Abbey. The refuge appears to be approximately 1.8 - 2 metres deep. Although this seems to be the same length as a typical bicycle, you would have to be extraordinarily confident to try and wait in this refuge while cars raced past you. My perception while using it is that my wheels were overhanging the edges and would be clipped by passing cars if I tried to wait. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 95442 |  | Someone's enjoying the new cycleway along field edges near the B1102 quite a bit. | Cycleway: Good practice cycleways | |
| 95441 |  | New cycleway behind hedges along field edge near B1102 | Cycleway: Good practice cycleways | |
| 95440 |  | New cycleway along hedges by B1102 | Cycleway: Good practice cycleways | |
| 95439 |  | End of the new cycle route connects to small street through business park. Seems a bit confusing to people about the best way to navigate it. | Cycleway: Infrastructure cycleways | |
| 95356 |  | Forest of bollards. Good luck trying to get your bike through here on this 'national cycle route', much less a tricycle or adapted cycle of any sort. Typical masochistic 'infrastructure' brought to you by Sustrans. | Obstruction: Problem obstructions | |
| 95355 |  | Ramp to railway bridge on NCR12 in Crown Lakes. Somewhere under all this moss and corrosion is a pathway that was built long ago and never maintained. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 95354 |  | NCR12 just east of railway bridge in Crown Lakes. Muddy path. Nice views though. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 95353 |  | NCR12 muddy route through Crown Lakes | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 95044 |  | This used to be thick with trees but also a fairly awful / steep path link that the college decided it had to make worse with chicanes & a cyclists dismount sign. Unsure what's up, but it's all gone now (the sign has since been removed entirely). There's been a lot of construction works on the lot, so it may be some redevelopment. | Other: Misc general | |
| 94793 |  | Looking at the end of the new pathway from across the road, Anglesey Abbey-side. Somehow an informal uncontrolled crossing is going to be installed here. There's no possible way the refuge is going to be large enough for a bicycle much less anything else. The connections at either end are the weaknesses of this otherwise decent scheme, unfortunately. | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 94792 |  | Unfinished end of the pathway across from Anglesey Abbey. Not yet surfaced. | Cycleway: Event cycleways | |
| 94790 |  | Field-edge pathway, separated from highway by hedge. Will be very nice when done. Not yet surfaced. | Cycleway: Event cycleways | |
| 94789 |  | End of hedge separated portion of pathway - connection unfinished - machinery still in place. | Cycleway: Event cycleways | |
| 94787 |  | Beginning of on-highway verge-separated section of path - the connection between the hedge-separated portion and here is not yet complete. | Cycleway: Event cycleways | |
| 94786 |  | New pathway, in this section there is a 0.5m-wide verge. Less separation than standards call for but certainly much better than what we had before (nothing), and connects to very nice hedge-separated pathways. | Cycleway: Good practice cycleways | |
| 94785 |  | Pathway gets a nice healthy 2.5m-wide verge for a bit. | Dutch-style cycleway: Good practice dutchcycleways | |
| 94784 |  | Hedge protected pathway | Dutch-style cycleway: Good practice dutchcycleways | |
| 94783 |  | Unfinished section of pathway | Cycleway: Event cycleways | |
| 94782 |  | Pathway behind hedges again for a bit. | Dutch-style cycleway: Good practice dutchcycleways | |
| 94781 |  | Unbuilt end of the pathway | Cycleway: Event cycleways | |
| 94780 |  | Unbuilt end of the new pathway for now | Cycleway: Event cycleways | |
| 94779 |  | Where the new under-construction pathway currently ends, at the edge of Stow-cum-Quy. If I recall correctly, it will continue a bit further -- when fully built -- rather than unceremoniously dumping you in national-speed-limit territory. | Road environment: Event road | |
| 94528 |  | More recently the county has painted a left-turn arrow in the left-turn lane, and it looks like they are adding ASLs to the junction. This is still, however, a terribly dangerous junction design because it tells people cycling that they should position themselves to the left-hand-side of left-turning traffic, with no visibility (especially for larger vehicles). This junction exposes just how much of a lie the so-called 'safety audit' process is. | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 93444 |  | I hope that someday this junction will be made safer, for her and everyone else. | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 93442 |  | 'Bus / cycle lane' | Car storage: Problem carstorage | |
| 93441 |  | Warren Road looking at the Eastfield link. | Cycleway: Good practice cycleways | |
| 93440 |  | Warren Road / Eastfield link. | Other: Infrastructure general | |
| 93439 |  | Warren Road / Eastfield link has been freshly rebuilt, wider & with reasonable access control in the form of a single central bollard. | Cycleway: Good practice cycleways | |
| 93368 |  | Nice greenery around the site. | Dutch-style cycleway: Good practice dutchcycleways | |
| 93367 |  | Random usage of tactile pads that seems to be thrown in for no apparent reason. Not the worst thing, but yet another maintenance item & potential slip risk. Behind them are the shared underground bins. Neat system. Stores waste underground & special vehicle comes along and empties them every so often. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93366 |  | A really weird way to create a pedestrian crossing of a cycleway. Basically, there's a short segment of shared-use. As a result there's an overusage of tactile pads. TSRGD 16 now allows Zebra crossings without Belisha beacons to be deployed on cycleways to provide crossings for pedestrians without going to all of this crazy trouble. Just paint some stripes! To be fair, that regulation came out after Eddington was designed & permitted. On the other hand, they could have anticipated it since the rule was in the works for a long time. And there's examples of such Zebras even on public highways in other places. One was installed in 2014 in Gloucester, for example. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93365 |  | A really weird way to create a pedestrian crossing of a cycleway. Basically, there's a short segment of shared-use. As a result there's an overusage of tactile pads. TSRGD 16 now allows Zebra crossings without Belisha beacons to be deployed on cycleways to provide crossings for pedestrians without going to all of this crazy trouble. Just paint some stripes! To be fair, that regulation came out after Eddington was designed & permitted. On the other hand, they could have anticipated it since the rule was in the works for a long time. And there's examples of such Zebras even on public highways in other places. One was installed in 2014 in Gloucester, for example. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93364 |  | A father takes his kid home from school on the new cycleway along Eddington Ave. I believe that this junction does not have the incorrect give-way markings painted on it. It does have extraneous tactile pads, which seem to have been distributed somewhat randomly around the site, as if the contractor did not understand the meaning of the pads. Note that the other side of the street is currently being used as a 2-way cycleway even though it was designed as a 1-way cycleway. But that is because I am taking the photograph while standing in a car parking layby that currently occupies the space that will someday be a cycleway. But it's not yet built. So the other side of the road is where everyone has to go. | Dutch-style cycleway: Good practice dutchcycleways | |
| 93363 |  | The contractor disobeyed instructions and painted give-way markings on what was supposed to be a priority cycleway. We don't know when it will be fixed. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93362 |  | Opened section of Ridgeway with weirdly shaped bollards, misplaced lamp-posts, and loose gravel on the cycleway. Naturally nobody wants to cycle on loose gravel so everyone cycles on the tiled side that was supposed to be the footway. Also note that this configuration of footway and cycleway is swapped from the other side the road. But since there's a massive amount of shared-use in between, I guess it doesn't matter. Just additional unnecessary conflict. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93361 |  | Unopened section of Ridgeway with weirdly shaped bollards & loose gravel pathway (supposed to be swept clean eventually). | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93360 |  | The contractor disobeyed instructions and painted give-way markings on the cycleway to give priority to cars entering a minor car park. In a development that is supposed to be all about walking and cycling priority. Shameful. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93359 |  | Tiny shared use pathway along Madingley Road west of Conduit Head Road. Going to be very interesting when thousands of people are living in NW Cambridge site. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93358 |  | A look back north along the horrible new High Cross junction. You can see how the stepped cycleway drops you down into an on-street cycle lane that encourages people to cycle along the left side of left-turning car traffic. Stunningly bad design that passed a 'safety audit'. Goes to show how worthless those are. | Road environment: Problem road | |
| 93357 |  | View from Horse Chestnut Ave towards the Ridgeway crossing. | Track: Infrastructure track | |
| 93356 |  | Horse Chestnut Ave now has a gate blocking motor vehicle access. | Track: Good practice track | |
| 93355 |  | Sadly the good times end & we go back to tar spray and chip all over. And it's not swept, so I don't dare venture onto it. Even a slight nudge with my bike tire & it's covered in pebbles that I have to pick out so they don't penetrate my tire. Sigh. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93354 |  | Best part of the Ridgeway I've yet seen. Feels almost Dutch. Red tarmac for the cycleway & confusingly tar spray and chip for the footway (even though tar spray and chip is used elsewhere for the cycleway). The lamp posts are placed outside of the pathway. If only they had built to this high standard of quality all over the site... | Dutch-style cycleway: Good practice dutchcycleways | |
| 93353 |  | Suddenly the tar spray and chip Ridgeway gives way to a red machine-laid tarmac Ridgeway. And the tar spray and chip surface is used for the footway instead. I have to wonder why the red tarmac wasn't the choice for the whole Ridgeway cycleway, to keep things consistent? | Cycleway: Infrastructure cycleways | |
| 93352 |  | Ridgeway branches. Asphalt is 'interim surfacing' while 'tar spray and chip' is final surfacing on right. This branch of the path has been swept, so loose gravel is actually relatively rare now. It's not as smooth as asphalt but workable. Hard to see what advantages that tar spray & chip has though. There's puddles forming on its surface, so that's not a help. | Cycleway: Infrastructure cycleways | |
| 93351 |  | Closer look at some of the loose gravel on the tar spray & chip surface. Needs to be swept. | Other: Problem general | |
| 93350 |  | Puddles forming on supposedly 'permeable' surface. Hmm. | Other: Problem general | |
| 93349 |  | More 'wacky' gates on the Ridgeway. Because the university believes deeply that they cannot do anything nice without also doing something horrible. The reasoning seems to be that 'cyclists' need to be 'punished'! For their own good! So throw up random barriers that exclude people with disabilities, knock off novice riders & create slip hazards for everyone. | Obstruction: Problem obstructions | |
| 93348 |  | More 'wacky' gates on the Ridgeway. Because the university believes deeply that they cannot do anything nice without also doing something horrible. The reasoning seems to be that 'cyclists' need to be 'punished'! For their own good! So throw up random barriers that exclude people with disabilities, knock off novice riders & create slip hazards for everyone. | Obstruction: Problem obstructions | |
| 93347 |  | Brand new 'Ridgeway' covered in slippery leaves. This was built back in the early Spring and has sat unused for almost 6 months, fenced off. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93346 |  | The 'wacky' gates remain as the site opens. Because the university believes deeply that they cannot do anything nice without also doing something horrible. The reasoning seems to be that 'cyclists' need to be 'punished'! For their own good! So throw up random barriers that exclude people with disabilities, knock off novice riders & create slip hazards for everyone. | Obstruction: Problem obstructions | |
| 93345 |  | A really horrible barrier in the middle of a bumpy and miserly cycleway. At least the scenery north of here is decent. But you often feel like you're going to have a head-on collision, the path is so small there. Really unfortunate, since it's an important route & there's so much potential. | Obstruction: Problem obstructions | |
| 93344 |  | The already-too-small cycleway is being overgrown, as happens every year, by surrounding greenery. | Cycleway: Problem cycleways | |
| 93343 |  | Probably nicest section, near western end of Sawston-Babraham cycleway. Shielded from car headlights by hedges, fields on other side. | Dutch-style cycleway: Good practice dutchcycleways | |
| 93342 |  | Separate cycleway through the fields. Can't complain. | Cycleway: Good practice cycleways | |
| 93341 |  | Central section of Sawston-Babraham path is shielded by hedges, which is nice, but for some reason has become rather dirty. | Dutch-style cycleway: Infrastructure dutchcycleways | |
| 93340 |  | Eastern end of Sawston-Babraham cycleway. | Dutch-style cycleway: Good practice dutchcycleways | |
| 93339 |  | Space for walking, cycling, horseback riding and cats. [ed: I've seen partridge right here as well.] | Dutch-style cycleway: Good practice dutchcycleways | |
| 93338 |  | The Babraham Institute cycleway / multi-use pathway for walking, cycling and horseback-riding. Very nice. | Dutch-style cycleway: Good practice dutchcycleways |
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