Cambridge 1950 home page | legal notice
In 1950 Victoria Avenue was the busiest road in the city, so the design of this particular junction was important. The proposal is eminently sensible and involved the demolition of a row of Victorian houses (the authors suggested when they came to the end of their useful life, which in today's England means never). Instead what eventually happened was the demolition only of their gardens and the resultant design was fairly poor, and so ever since Mitcham's Corner has been one of the worst traffic junctions in Cambridge. In 2003 the transport planners put traffic lights in, but did not address the fundamental problem.
Cambridge 1950 home page | legal notice