Long-awaited designated route will improve safety as well as increasing much needed equestrian, pedestrian and cycle links across the local communities.
The new route will be at least 2.5m wide and run from the Papworth roundabout over 1,480 metres south to the Iway Hotel alongside the A1198, known as Ermine Street South.
The new route will be a two way path and set back from the busy A1198 carriageway by half a metre to improve user safety.
A temporary path will be put in place through to the Caxton Gibbet roundabout pending National Highways A428 Black Cat to Caxton Gibbet Road improvements which will see a route created across the junction.
The work is being funded by Cambridgeshire County Council and National Highways and will be carried out by Cambridgeshire County Council contractors, Milestone Infrastructure. Works are estimated to take until late spring 2022.
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