(Technically this is a restriction rather than a closure)
Mill Road Bridges exists to give a voice to all who live in, trade in, shop in, visit, or have an interest in Mill Road. Our linking to this petition should not be read as support. Neither should this statement be read as opposition.
James Youd, Labour Organiser started this petition to Cambridgeshire County Council.
Cambridgeshire County Council has is using £575k funding to implement a number of Experimental Traffic Orders (ETO) to completely shut several roads in Cambridge for an initial period of 6 months without consultation.
The most drastic of these in the closure for all traffic expect buses, cyclists and pedestrians of Mill Road bridge…
James Youd
Click here to see the full petition, and decide if you wish to sign.
Don’t forget: If you have a petition about any aspect of Mill Road, let us know and we’ll usually be happy to link to it.
You can also add your (polite) comments below, or in the comments section of the Wider footways, barriers and bridge closure post or the How is it working so far… post.
See also:
- Wider footways, barriers and bridge closure
- Bridge closure protest
- Traders overwhelmingly in favour of re-opening Mill Road bridge to cars
- Protest Walk Saturday 1st August
- Camcycle repeats call to county to fast-track improvements on Mill Road
- Camcycle letter to Cllr Ian Bates, Chair of the Highways and Transport Committee
- Blue Badge holders access to Mill Road
- Mill Road Bridge – Blue Badge Petition
- How is it working so far…
- Mill Road Bridge – Disentangling the issues
- Celebrate Local Businesses
- Current Trading Problems in Mill Road
- The Gas Man Cometh (Again)
- Gas Works – Important Update
- Ideas for future Mill Road prosperity
- Petition: Allow taxis to go, where buses go
Wow – In the Covid lockdown China does Hong Kong and (on a much smaller scale) Cambridge Council thinks…, what can we get away with…?
I live very close to the bridge and use it daily – or I used to – It has added miles to my journeys, pushing traffic elsewhere around the city, net impact on my case – more pollution.
Guess I was Born on the Wrong Side of The Tracks! Locked out as well as Lock Down, I could go on. Protect the Uni and city centre elites, make the poor riff-raff from over there walk. It is a class divide… and the Bridge was supposed to bring people together – restricting its use can only bring division. Better scrub those paintings off, eh councillors but, no, they could not propose that directly. Let them have their pictures, just put up a virtual fence.
On Taxis, why? A taxi is a private car hired for a period, same pollution same noise same danger. A Taxi is not a bus. And buses… don’t get me started, biofuel sustainable… lol, have you seen a palm oil plantation?? How about food delivery drivers, motorbikes, tractors… I’ll stop there ?
Reminds me of a French energy minister once said about building nuclear power stations, in his [redacted] voice of supreme arrogance, ‘If you want to drain [the] marsh, do you consult [the] frogs?’ Mind you, even if they did consult, the result would be the same as the imposition of the residents’ parking scheme probably. A foregone conclusion and untenable alternatives.
Lets imagine virtual bridges, pinch points, roadblocks – call them what you want – if we could sprinkle them around the city where could we put them? – Elizabeth Road Bridge? The beginning of St Andrews Street? Huntingdon Road? anywhere really – so why Mill Road Bridge? Is there logic, or was it just random, why are we in Romsey being shut out? I think we should be told.
SJW