Some time ago it was announced that solar lights would be installed on the busway cycle track, to help guide cyclists using the route at night. Similar lights were earlier successfully trialled on other local cycle tracks.
Focus on Bar Hill has revealed that work on installing the lights is now beginning between Orchard Park and St Ives,between Longstanton Park & Ride and Longstanton, between Oakington and Girton. This may explain the works going on between Orchard Park and Histon yesterday evening as I returned from Cambridge on a late evening bus.
It will be interesting to see how they cope when they reach the flooded section of track near Swavesey, and how the lights perform when submerged for weeks on end!
Also in Huntingdon & St Ives News & Crier ( February 28, page 17).
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DeleteI guess they could install ordinary lamp-posts on the flooded stretch - at least that way there would be light - even if there were no cyclists or pedestrians.
ReplyDeletePresumably the solar lights are waterproof for ordinary rainfall, so maybe they'll be OK under the floodwater.
ReplyDeleteApparently the lights are solar stud lights that are sealed into plastic, secured in holes drilled into the path surface, there's no problem with them being underwater....
ReplyDeleteAs at 2 March, the solar lights seem to have been installed almost to St Ives. They run out about half a mile west of Fen Drayton.
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