Arnold Road, B6004, Nottingham

South Bank Road, Middlesbrough

Uniquely, the cycle tracks on South Bank Road in Cargo Fleet, Middlesbrough, are 12 feet wide, which is 3 feet wider than most period cycle tracks and 2 feet wider than the cycle tracks on nearby Wolviston Road, opened in 1944. Read more

Uxbridge Road, A4020, Hayes And Southall

Until the building of the Western Avenue arterial to the north of Southall, starting in 1921, Uxbridge Road was the historic route from London to Oxford. There are two sections of period cycle tracks on Uxbridge Road. The first section is in Southall, in the London Borough of Ealing, and runs for 300 metres from almost Milford Road to opposite Holy Trinity Church, on the corner of Park View Road. This features period concrete and is kerb-protected on both sides of the road.1,085ft (300 metres). Read more

Euxton Lane, near Chorley

The installation of the exemplary cycle tracks on Euxton Lane was in anticipation of the influx of thousands of workers that would build the adjacent Royal Ordnance Force factory of ROF Chorley. Read more

Raynesway, Derby

Derby’s Raynesway — initially known as “Town Planning Road No. 4” — was opened by Alderman Edward Paulson, Mayor of Derby, on 28 September, 1938. It was named for Alderman W. R. Raynes, long-time chairman of the Derby Estates and Development Committee. Read more

Formby Bypass

The four-mile dual carriageway bypassing Formby opened in 1938 with 6-ft-wide footways adjacent to 9-ft-wide cycle tracks. A period document reveals that the footway had a pink asphalt surface, and the cycle tracks had a non-skid green asphalt surface (none of which has survived). Read more

Longforgan, A90, nr Dundee

The bypass of Longforgan was largely built by 1939, complete with cycle tracks and footways, but finishing work appears to have stopped at the outbreak of war, with the road not completed until 1946 or 1947. Newspaper reports say there were cycle tracks and footways on both sides of the bypass, but there’s only one shared use path in evidence today. Read more

Kingston Bypass, A3, London

Remodelling, including widenings and the addition of flyovers, has obliterated whatever, by the 1960s, remained of the original Kingston Bypass, opened by Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin on 30 November 1927. Read more

Weeley Bypass, Essex

The Weely bypass, opened in July 1939 as part of the A133, was itself bypassed by the new A133 opened in 1995. Read more

Eastern Avenue, A12, Ilford

In a press agency photograph dated 26 September 1937, two men and a woman — all smartly dressed — are seen riding bicycles on a cycle track on Eastern Avenue, Ilford. Read more

Southport New Road, Banks to Holmes, A565

The bypass of Banks, Mere Brow and Holmes was probably built between 1937 and 1939 with one newspaper saying work was being carried out in 1937. And reports in 1936 said the New Southport Road would feature “dual carriage ways and cycle tracks.” Read more

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