Delivered as part of the Cross City Cycling package, the Arbury Road project sought to improve links to schools, homes and workplaces in this expanding area of north Cambridge.
The project delivered:
- new cycle lanes and footpaths and carriageway resurfacing
- new traffic signals installed at the Campkin Road junction
- 2m wide cycleways with the cyclist-friendly Cambridge kerb between Campkin Road and North Cambridge Academy
- low-level cycle signals on Arbury Road
- Mansel Way changed to a give way junction with no traffic signals
- replacement of mini roundabouts with priority t-junctions
- footpath laid with a hoggin surface near the Arbury community centre (hoggin is a mixture of clay, gravel, and sand that produces a buff-coloured bound surface)
- widening the play area path to a 2.5m wide shared use path
- new hedges to replace those which needed to be removed as part of the project
Arbury Road background documents
Cross City Cycling
In 2016 following consultation with the public, the executive board agreed a package of five projects.
The Cross City Cycling package, which sought to make it safer and easier for people to travel by bike, consisted of five schemes:
- Arbury Road
- Cambridge North railway station and science park
- Ditton Lane and links to east Cambridge
- Hills Road and Cambridge Biomedical Campus
- Fulbourn and Cherry Hinton eastern access
All schemes were completed by 2021.