The Milton Road Alliance is a joint partnership between MRRA, HPERA, and the Cambridge Cycle Campaign.
It's purpose is to produce a better plan for the Greater Cambridge Partnership, which is currently in the
form of the 'Do Optimum' proposal. More details about the Milton Road Alliance can be found here: www.miltonroadalliance.org
Do Optimum
A joint partnership between MRRA, HPERA, and the Cambridge Cycle Campaign has resulted in the creation of
the 'Do Optimum' alternative to the City Deal's 'Do Something' proposal. The new Do Optimum proposal has
been discussed and a resolution has been passed by the Milton Road LLF to recommend the Do Optimum
proposal to the City Deal board. A joint statement by the 3 groups has been released and can be found here.
The Do Optimum proposal was presented to the LLF by Matthew Danish. A summary of the Do Optimum proposal
can be downloaded here Download
PDF
Cambridgeshire County Council required at least 3000 Cambridgeshire residents' signatures to debate the
petition as part of a full council meeting. The online petition, along with our paper petition, has
surpassed this goal. On 19th July 2016, the Milton Road Residents' Association Chairman presented the
petition for discussion to the County Council.
By the end of the meeting the councillors voted in favour of a motion from Councillor
Jocelynne Scutt for the following recommendation:
'We want a commitment from the City Deal Assembly and the City Deal Board that if, in the end,
construction requires removal of any single one of the trees in Milton Road, then the City Deal monies
return to Milton Road mature trees lining Milton Road’s verges making Milton Road the impressive vista it
should be, a lead-in to Cambridge of which we – all of us – whether Cambridge City or from the County as a
whole can be proud.'
A further motion by Councillor Ian Manning recommending the City Deal to consider other options for Milton
Road was rejected by the councillors:
'This council wishes to express its opposition to any plan that will result in the removal of the
majority of trees on Milton Road. Further the council believes that measures contained in the City Deal do
not represent an efficient or desirable way to tackle congestion and ask that more options be considered
in the public consultation.'
On July 4th 2016, people from all over greater Cambridge were invited to come along to give their views on
the supersizing of Cambridge, its consequences for this beautiful City of Cambridge and its villages, its
impact on those left behind in the rush for growth and to express their views on what they see as the
singular lack of vision and lost opportunities in the City Deal's proposals.
The executive Board has approved the road layout recommended by the City Deal. Watch the full video of the meeting
here where the proposals were unanimously approved.
The City Deal has proposed 3 lanes and in some places 4 lanes of traffic along Milton Road. They are also
proposing to close Union Lane at the junction with Milton Road, banning right turns into Elizabeth way and
also remove the Elizabeth way roundabout. More details of their recommendations can be found at the Milton Road Proposals
section of this site.
To show how much we appreciate the trees along Milton Road, we have tied a yellow ribbon to every tree on
the road. We do not want the City Deal to remove over 100 trees on Milton Road and we hope the ribbons
will get the trees some extra attention as they burst into bloom this summer.
The trees along Milton Road have been adorned with posters demonstrating how the local residents feel
about the trees. Children and adults have got creative and hand made a whole variety of posters to
advertise that we want to Save the Trees.
The City Deal held a briefing on this topic for the 'Stakeholders' to attend. Unfortunatly the public was
not invited, however, you can watch
the full video of the meeting here, thanks to Richard Taylor.
