Cambridgeshire County Council‘s Cycling Team and its contractor will be coming to Queen Edith’s on October 5th to report on the slow-running Hills Road cycle lanes.

Or should that read ‘the slow lanes’? The project was scheduled to take 37 weeks but we are in week 36 already and they still haven’t finished the first side, although more red tarmac went down last weekend.

The officers will also update us on the progress of the Chisholm Trail cycle route and take questions on other cycle-related matters.

Here is a link to the agenda of the South Area meeting. There’s also an open forum session and a report on environmental services in the south of the city (rubbish, graffiti and vandalism).

7pm, St John’s Church, Hills Road.

STOP PRESS: The meeting will also receive a report on the County Council’s proposals to switch off streetlights at night. County Tories want to stop night-time lighting in an attempt to make the books balance, in the face of swingeing central government cuts to local government.

We believe this will have an unacceptable impact on road safety and on individual safety in Cambridge, given the high numbers of residents and visitors who are about after midnight or early in the morning.

 

LOCAL BLOGGER CHRIS RAND HAS WRITTEN A REPORT OF THE MEETING’S DISCUSSIONS ON CYCLE PROJECTS AND STREETLIGHTING AT http://queen-ediths.co.uk/

 

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