Derek Williams (inset) from Norwich Cycling Campaign says plans to revamp Easton and Longwater roundabouts are substandard (Image: Google Maps / Derek Williams)
Campaigners who branded roundabout revamp plans as "substandard" and dangerous have unveiled alternative proposals they say would make it safer.
Work is due to start at the Easton and Longwater roundabouts, on the edge of Norwich, later this year. The roundabout at Easton Pic: Google Maps But Norwich Cycling Campaign has criticised the proposals, which Persimmon Homes, the developer behind the 780-home Festival Park development being built off Dereham Road in Easton, will pay for. Plans for the Easton roundabout. Pic: Norfolk County Council The proposals include a pedestrian crossing across Dereham Road towards Easton, with a shared cycle and pedestrian footpath by the roundabout.
But cyclists say they would have to dismount to use a two-metre wide footpath over the A47 bridge linking the showground with the Longwater roundabout in Costessey.
The campaign group said that is dangerous and has put forward its own designs. Derek Williams, from Norwich Cycling Campaign Derek Williams, Norwich Cycling Campaign spokesman, said: "The route is likely to be used by more cyclists than pedestrians, given the large distances involved, so a route that insists cyclists have to get off and push is not reasonable.
"The present plans are trying to force a quart of traffic into the pint pot of the Longwater junction and as a result fail to provide for vulnerable road users." Norwich Cycling Campaign’s alternative proposals for Longwater/Easton The campaign […]
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