Sustrans' Connect2 project has won the jackpot of £50 million for walking and cycling projects around the UK. Many thanks are due everyone who voted for the project, and to those who helped with promoting Connect2. It really did make a difference.
Connect2 is a UK-wide project that will transform local travel in 79 cities, towns and villages across the United Kingdom by creating new walking and cycling routes for the journeys we all make every day. Crossings and bridges will be constructed over busy roads, railway lines and rivers, linking into new networks of local paths to get you to where you want to go.
The vision for the Carlisle Connect2 scheme is to create a virtually traffic-free north-south route across the city to complement the existing east-west Hadrian’s Cycleway. The route will run from Parkhouse Road in the north down through the Kingmoor Park nature reserves, across the River Eden, and follow the River Caldew to the existing Caldew cycleway, and turn east into Currock via a new approach ramp to the existing crossing of the Carlisle-Barrow railway.
The new cycleway will offer a number of environmental, transport and recreational benefits including:
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