Third new design for £8.6m Coventry cycleway after safety concerns

A council has come up with a third design for the final section of an £8.6m cycleway after concerns from local residents.

Issues around safety, parking and visibility for people getting off their drives were raised over the Binley cycleway to Coventry City Council.

The cycleway, which is yet to be completed, will run along Clifford Bridge Road.

One resident said: "I think they keep tweaking it to try and fob us off."

The latest plans for the final section of the cycleway were discussed at a public meeting on Thursday with around 50 people attending.

Residents were told the council no longer intends to narrow Clifford Bridge Road to accommodate the cycleway.

They also heard that more parking spaces will be put in compared to the original plan, and there will be a kerb to separate the pavement and the cycleway for most of its route.

Local resident Dawn McCann has launched a petition against the plans and told the BBC: "I think they keep tweaking it to try and fob us off and not tackle the actual issue of safety.

"No one who lives on Clifford Bridge wants to run cyclist over, nobody would intentionally injure anybody, but the way the cycleway is being designed at the moment, all of those cyclists are sitting ducks."

Costing an estimated £8.6m, the Binley cycleway aims to cover 6km (3.7 miles) to link Coventry city centre with University Hospital Coventry.

Before work can begin on the section on Clifford Bridge road, a technical sign-off on the work needs to be granted by the West Midlands Combined Authority and Active Travel England.

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