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DfT blocks Cambs crossing closures that could cut walking

Active Travel

16 November 2020
Crossings: some closures would have forced walkers onto roads, creating new safety concerns
Crossings: some closures would have forced walkers onto roads, creating new safety concerns

 

The DfT has rejected nine of Network Rail’s 25 applications to close or downgrade level crossings in Cambridgeshire because of concerns the changes would discourage walking, create new road safety risks, and disadvantage the mobility impaired. 

Network Rail used a Transport and Works Act Order application to propose the closure or downgrading of the crossings. A number of the changes affected private crossings, used only by farmers to access land. Downgrading a crossing can involve...

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