The Milton Road project won the ‘Active Travel’ category for schemes that encourage walking and cycling. The team showed how they had transformed the road through new Copenhagen crossings, continuous cycleways, revamped junctions, Cambridge’s second Cyclops junction which gives cyclists priority over cars and by planting over 200 new trees. In total there are now five kilometres of cycle and walking lanes.

The judges said: “the inclusive design that safely accommodates pedestrians, buses, cyclists and general traffic without displacing movement elsewhere really set this entry apart.”

Cllr Brian Milnes, Chair of the GCP Executive Board, said

“The Greater Cambridge Partnership is being recognised nationally for its innovative projects that give people more choice about how they travel around Cambridge. Whether it’s our award-winning project at Milton Road, or our two short-listed projects – making Adams Road England’s first cycle street, or our Connector self-driving buses – the GCP is steering Cambridge to the forefront of transport innovation.”

The Milton Road project also included redesigning Elizabeth Way roundabout – 18 collisions involving cyclists had happened before the scheme was introduced - with clearly marked areas for pedestrians and cyclists to travel safely whilst being segregated from cars.

Construction took place between 2022 and 2024, and the scheme recently celebrated its first birthday. The GCP continue to monitor traffic flow at the roundabout and are currently trialling new sequencing to the traffic lights to increase traffic flow and reduce waiting time.

The GCP was shortlisted for two CiTTi awards; the project to make Adams Road England’s first cycle street was shortlisted for CiTTi’s ‘Future Projects Award’ and GCP’s autonomous bus project Connector was shortlisted for the ‘Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Award’.