Colney Lane roundabout "improvements"

A look at the new "enhanced" cycling and walking routes around the Colney Road roundabout, the only practical pedestrian and cycle route to the Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital from the city. The project represents a serious downgrade of the access to the hospital for anyone not using a motor vehicle. We show what the route used to be like in early 2023, before it was "improved" and what it's like now. Norfolk County Council described these changes as an "enhancement" of the walking and cycling routes, nothing could be further from the truth. The two new routes contain difficult and downright dangerous crossings of busy roads, totally unsuited to people with vision or mobility issues (this is on the access to the hospital remember) and a long standing and heavily used route is not catered for at all, leaving people to cross at a place made vastly more dangerous by these "improvements". The shared use pavements are far too narrow and the routes are indirect and not intuitive. There are also two bus stops located close to an official but third rate crossing point of a fast, busy main road, making it even more dangerous.