More than four million pounds is set to be spent on a project to build a new bike lane where an existing one is. The money will be used to build a new cycle lane between Hove Lawns and Hove lagoon and one planned for Marine Parade has been postponed. Some £1.
2 million is being taken away from the Marine Parade project. Cyclists will be able to travel on a new segregated lane between Hove Lagoon and Hove Lawns, as they can already, under £4 million plans set to be approved by Brighton and Hove City Council. It comes amid a raft of changes outlined in the council's five-year plan set to be discussed at its first cabinet meeting next week.
Between Fourth Avenue and Hove Street, one lane of traffic will be removed to make way for the cycle lane, and between Hove Street and Wharf Road, the pavement will be cut back to make space for the lane. The current cycle lane runs on the pavement, navigating round the King Alfred leisure centre to the south. The new one will see this removed and cyclists will remain on the new lane next to the A259.
Plans to build a new cycle lane on the A259 were initially set out by the previous Green administration in 2022. Part of it was built between West Street and the end of Hove Lawns, with cyclists heading eastbound continuing to use the old lane and westbound cyclists using the new, segregated, lane which took over a lane of traffic. The Labour administration stopped these bike lanes, which they called low quality, from continuing to the Lagoon, .
