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none of the footways are shared-use
This was up for debate in the case, apparently (according to local press). Cambs council cycling maps would appear to disagree - but there is no signage - so the police were unable to determine whether or not the path was shared use. *caveat - this is just my own reading of the local reports
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This was up for debate in the case, apparently (according to local press). Cambs council cycling maps would appear to disagree - but there is no signage - so the police were unable to determine whether or not the path was shared use. *caveat - this is just my own reading of the local reports
I did look at that earlier, and the only evidence of shared use that I could find was a little west of the crash site, where there are several such signs.
Whether or not something is shared-use doesn't depend on signage, though, but on whether there is a Traffic Regulation Order in force (Traffic Management Order in London), which obviously the signage should advertise. The police can find out about this very easily by asking the highway authority, probably Cambridgeshire County Council, which is tasked with knowing what orders there are. (I realise that highway authorities sometimes fail in this duty.) As traffic orders are generally not available on-line (I'm sure there are exceptions), in most cases signage is a reliable indicator of one, or indeed the little things that traffic engineers do where there is shared use, e.g. the give-way triangles painted on the footways in the examples above.
I do think it's irrelevant in any case in view of the harm done.
Oliver Schick
What a dreadful crash. This is the site:
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/@52.3318311,-0.1798557,3a,35.7y,102.32h,86.21t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sP7suqAnP9IbPAk_hiAISlg!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
It's quite clear from StreetView that this street carries very high volumes of through motor traffic, and while none of the footways are shared-use, it's understandable that riders would use them. In the face of the enormity of what happened, this is all irrelevant. Tragic.