Walking and Cycling
Carlisle Cycle Map
A free pocket-sized walking and cycling guide for Carlisle has
been produced aimed at encouraging people to walk and cycle as a
way of getting to work, school, the shops and for leisure purposes.
The map is available from Carlisle libraries, Carlisle Tourist
Information Centre, the Sands Centre and to download and print out below.
Connect2 "Missing link" to be constructed
The go ahead has been given for a £300,000 scheme to link
two sections of cycleway that will ultimately form part of the
Carlisle Connect2 scheme. When the link is completed, it will be
possible to cycle and walk from Viaduct Estate Road, Carlisle to
Dalston Town Centre entirely traffic free except for a short
stretch of access road to the Stead McAlpin factory in Cummersdale.
At present, cycleway users have to leave the riverside route in
Carlisle, and take a circuitous route via Denton Street which when
travelling from south to north involves two crossings of a busy
road.
Members of the County Council’s Local Committee for Carlisle at
a recent meeting said they were taking advantage of a ‘once in a
lifetime’ opportunity while the Environment Agency was carrying out
its flood defence work along the River Caldew. The cycleway
will be a link between Metcalfe Street and Lime Street.
The Denton Holme missing link scheme is one of four major
projects that will be required to complete a continuous cycleway
across the city between Currock and Kingmoor. The other three (in
order from south to north) are: the Currock Bridge ramp, the Castle
Way ramp and approach path, and the new Eden Crossing from the
Sheepmount to Stanwix.
Connect2 is a UK-wide project that will transform local travel
in 79 cities, towns and villages across the UK by creating new
walking and cycling routes for the journeys we all make every day.
The vision for the Carlisle Connect2 scheme is to create a
virtually traffic-free north-south route through the city.
The new cycleway will offer a number of environmental, transport
and recreational benefits including:
- access from residential areas to employment areas on either
side of the River Eden;
- safer routes from residential areas to educational, social and
retail facilities in the city centre;
- an opportunity to improve air quality on Scotland Road due to
more people travelling by bike and on foot;
- improved health and recreation through access to the rivers in
the urban area and links to other green spaces.