Channel your inner Lennon and imagine, if you can, a shared-used road on which bikes have been given the right of way over motorised vehicles, and drivers are not permitted to overtake cyclists. And then imagine, sadly it isn’t hard to do, all the people and publications getting purple-faced furious about this concept, especially when it’s revealed that the project in question cost £2.4 million to implement.
You don’t have to expend too much mental energy, because this is exactly what has unfolded with the recent opening to the public of what has been heralded by those in favour as England’s first ‘cycle street’ (and derided by others – including some cyclists in Cambridge – as a massive waste of money).
