British Cycle Tracks
  • Introduction
    • Introduction
    • Acknowledgments
    • Font use
  • History
    • Cycleways 1885-1938
    • New Era of Control
    • Bike Boom 1932-1939
  • Features
    • Advocates
    • Why Build?
    • MoT Funding
    • Length/Quality/Use
    • Protests
    • Compulsion
    • Reasons for Failure
  • Cycle Tracks
    • Period Cycle Tracks
    • Cycle Tracks 1945-1971
    • Unproven tracks
  • Rescue
    • Refurbishment
    • Rescue report to DfT

Select Page

Period Cycle Tracks

ALL | SCOTLAND | NORTH | LANCASHIRE | WALES | MIDLANDS | SOUTH | LONDON

British Cycle Tracks Logo 1934 1945
  • About us
  • Contact us
  • Privacy policy

This 120,000-word study explores the hidden history of 100+ Dutch-inspired cycle tracks built by the 1930s Ministry of Transport ostensibly to protect cyclists who dominated on British roads at the time. Twelve of these period cycle tracks have been evaluated for revamping. One of them was part of a £2.2 million DfT-funded renovation project.

© 2025 Carlton Reid. All Rights Reserved.