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ARTICLE · 11 AUGUST 2020

Did Someone Call For More Cycle Paths?

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Stevenage is famed for its cycle paths and infrastructure built around the vision of Eric Claxton the engineer for the planning of the new town from 1946, and its Chief engineer between 1963 and...

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Stevenage is famed for its cycle paths and infrastructure built around the vision of Eric Claxton the engineer for the planning of the new town from 1946, and its Chief engineer between 1963 and 1972.

Eric was inspired in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War to respond to the words of Lloyd George who, as Prime Minister in 1918 after the first world war, had called on all “…to make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.”.

As Claxton said in an interview in 1986:

“Well, I'd lived through the bit after that. I wasn't enamoured of the land that we were made to live in, and I reckoned that perhaps this new town project was really the first decision to honour that state of affairs. So it put me very much on my mettle to try and create a very safe and convenient, and comfortable town for people to live in.”

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