A very hostile roadspace with some pretty poor shared-use paths require a lot of jumping around. Route
http://radwagon.blogspot.com/2013/02/... in Cambridge Video Clip Cycling Guide, as described at
http://radwagon.co.uk/2013/02/cambrid....
This can be quite unpleasant and it's worth sticking to the shared-use path where it makes for good progress. It helps passing a number of traffic lights as well.
The start shows a lack of side turnings, making the shared-use path quite a good choice. After the Grange Road lights, the path narrows, more side accesses appear (most blind), and a move into the unpleasant roadspace is probably better.
Sadly, with all the pinch points, a lot of drivers fail to acknowledge people cycling safety and will make close passes at speed. And clearly going faster than the 30mph speed limit. Even taking the lane on a road this wide leads to sillier actions, like the MITIE van that passes with no space. Looking to the left shows how poor the shared-use path is with multiple side roads and accesses.
Further up there's an attempt to take shared-use path users into the road round a junction. It looks like it's useful, but again, dumping people cycling into the road just where there are pinch points is likely to lead to conflict. The next junction has a vast amount of space allotted to non-usuable road (white hatchings). Why isn't this usable by people cycling?
And up to the 40mph limit (which most traffic has been doing for the past half mile anyway), so things get a lot more hostile form here on. Back to the shared-use path, although I'm sure the pedestrian would prefer me not to be there.
At the M11 junction, I cross to the shared-use path on the other side of the road. There isn't one on this side. At least takes you away from the really quite unpleasant roadspace now. And the path dwindles until it really isn't any more than a side path. Shared-use design standards out of the window.
Finally, I get to cross the road back to continue on the shared-path up the hill. Just before I nearly get knocked off by the wind blast from the juggernaut passing a few feet from me. I choose to cross the road at the junction. It gives a little higher priority than the official crossing (as any traffic on the side roads have to wait for me, not the other way round). Also, the other side is so covered in leaves, you can't make out where it is and is so slippy as to dangerous at speeds above 5mph.
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