Cambridge Hills Road junction made safer for cyclists

Work at a key junction on a main route into Cambridge, to make it safer for cyclists, is causing major disruption.

Rush hour delays at the Hills Road - Regent Street junction at the Catholic church have increased to 20 minutes.

Traffic is queuing for up to half a mile down Hills Road on the approach to the junction.

Mac McGuire, Cambridgeshire's cabinet member for highways, said much of the work would be done during school holidays to minimise the disruption.

The junction was designed and built 30 years ago and was expected to be adequate to control traffic for 15 years, he said.

Pedestrian islands are to be enlarged and cyclists are to be given more space.

In the past five years there have been 20 serious accidents at the junction and most of the casualties were cyclists.

Mr McGuire said: "It's never a good time to carry out road works but we have started now so the junction will be complete by the end of the school holidays which begin shortly.

"We are making the best use of the time available."