England’s controversial first ‘cycle street’ was used by only half the cyclists that the public were led to believe travelled along it every day, a Freedom of Information request has revealed.
Prior to developing the route, the Greater Cambridge Partnership , which is behind the scheme, said on its website it as ‘already used by more than 3,000 cyclists daily’.
But two manual counts of cycle use on Adams Road were carried out in 2022 and 2026 on behalf of the GCP – which has been accused of forcing anti-car schemes on Cambridge, where there is a powerful bike lobby – with
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