Dutch-style ‘cycling haven’ roundabout caused more accidents
When the UK’s first Dutch-style roundabout was introduced in 2020 it was hailed by campaigners as a “small piece of cycling heaven” that would increase safety for all road users.
But Cambridge residents say the roundabout, where pedestrians and cyclists have priority over drivers, amounts to a “failed experiment”. Figures show there have been more accidents at the roundabout than at the traditional junction it replaced.
There have been ten collisions causing injury, three of which have been serious, since the roundabout, on the junction between Fendon Way and Queen Edith’s Way near Addenbrooke’s Hospital, opened in July 2020 at a cost of £2.3 million.
There were six minor incidents at the junction in the three years before it was replaced by the roundabout, which
