New Preston cycle lane plans revealed - have your say
Details of a long-planned cycle path to run along the edge of Preston city centre have been published.
The two-way route was first suggested almost four years ago as part of a bid by Preston City Council for cash from the government’s Levelling Up Fund.
The ultimately successful pitch proposed creating a 700-metre facility – segregated from both vehicles and pedestrians – on the southern side of Queen Street and Avenham Lane, within what is currently a grass verge.
As the Lancashire Post revealed late last year, work on the £1.5m scheme – which aims to better connect the railway station in the west and places of education like Cardinal Newman College in the east – is due to begin this summer.
Now, Lancashire County Council, as the highway’s authority, has set out the specifics of the project – and is asking for the public’s thoughts.
The cycle lane will start out close to Queen Street’s junction with London Road and end just after the point where Avenham Lane meets Syke HIll. It will operate as a ‘shared use’ space with pedestrians at either end “to allow cyclists to transition” out of the segregated area, according to a report from County Hall.
There will also be small sections of shared use along the route to “provide connectivity where there is insufficient space to fully segregate users”.
Meanwhile, special crossings will give cyclists priority over vehicles as the lane passes over side roads including Manchester Road and St. Austin’s Road.
A parallel crossing over Avenham Lane will be installed at the Syke Hill end, to enable cyclists to shift safely onto that route, should they choose to do so.
The proposals can be viewed here. Anybody wishing to comment on them should email [email protected], quoting ref:LSG4/894.21669/AFR, by 27th March or write to: The Director of Law and Governance, Lancashire County Council, PO Box 100, County Hall, Preston, PR1 0LD.
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