Route from Durham station to University (Mountjoy campus)

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Added by Matthew Phillips

The main route from the railway station to Durham University's Mountjoy campus is not ideal at present for cyclists. DBUG offered a detailed critique of this route in the recent submission to the County Durham Plan process. See http://community.dur.ac.uk/m.e.phillips/cycling/DBUGResponse.pdf pages 25-29.

It would be good to open some discussion on what the best means would be of improving these routes, from the radical (e.g. closing Margery Lane to through car traffic) to the obvious (20 mph speed limits on sections of the route). I'd be quite happy for this to more broadly cover pedestrian improvements too as that's all part of the active travel agenda.

Can I suggest that people open separate discussion threads for different sections of the route, for example:

1) railway station to Crossgate traffic lights
2) Margery Lane to roundabout at bottom of Potters Bank
3) roundabout to New Inn lights

There may be some issues which affect the whole route. Are there alternative routes worth considering, such as North Road, South Street, Pimlico, or North Road, Silver Street, Saddler Street, the Bailey, Prebend's Bridge? The former is shorter but steeper, and the latter is quieter but longer.

What do you think of the suggestions in the report? Are there other options we did not think of? What do you think is achievable?

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