Representation by Cycle Advocacy Network (Cycle Advocacy Network)
- Date submitted
- 22 February 2023
- Submitted by
- Members of the public/businesses
Cycling UK’s Cycle Advocacy Network (CAN) brings together people with a shared interest in creating the conditions that enable more people to cycle, including better infrastructure for cycling and safer roads. The routes and facilities included within the Lower Thames Crossing scheme to provide for people who wish to cycle for their short everyday journeys and longer trips should meet the following design criteria:- • Coherence • Directness • Comfort • Attractiveness • Safety CAN will demonstrate that Highways England have not met their design obligations with respect to:- • Providing facilities for people who cycle to use the new tunnels to cross the Thames, e.g. via a shuttle vehicle service • Failing to provide for people who wish to cycle where new cycle route networks cross HS1 on overbridges adjacent to the Marling Cross Hares Bridge, Henhurst Road and Brewers Road • Proposing to dedicate many new and improved cycle routes as bridleways or permissive paths, whilst providing negligible information on proposed widths, surface materials, drainage, lighting and ongoing maintenance of such routes within the DCO application. CAN will restrict their submissions on the matter of cycle route networks to those proposed for elements of the scheme which lie south of the river Thames.