Dry Drayton Blog

Workmen completed the next part of the verge improvements between Dry Drayton and Oakington this week. These verge inprovements are for horse riders and walkers, but might be usable by somone on a mountain bike. The surface is not metalled as on a cycle track. Unfortunateley the two parts of the improved verges have a 0.4 mile gap in the middle, including the dangerous bend on the Oakington side of the junction. The gap in the middle will be left until the Dry Drayton / Oakington interchange is next upgraded.

Unless you are a horse rider or a walker, these improvements won’t make a great deal of difference. What is really needed is a cycle track along this route to link to other cycleways from Oakington and to the proposed “misguided bus” into Cambridge. Will these improved verges make it any easier to have the route turned into a proper cycleway later? Will the Parish Council and the Village Plan currently being drafted pick up on this?