Isn Catte Street / St Ebbes an official cycle route?
Oxnetters, both cyclists and drivers, tend to be sticklers for the law when it comes to cycling. There’s no justification whatsoever for: ignoring a red traffic light; riding unlit at night; cycling on the pavement, or any other breach of the Highway Code. They’re all illegal, and (perhaps more importantly) dangerous and anti-social (and they make you fat.) Both the top of St Ebbe’s outside BHS and the bottom of Catte Street outside St Mary’s have pavements with lowered kerbs, making it easy for a bicycle to be ridden straight across without stopping. Catte Street has been noted as being marked as a recommended cycle route for its whole length. However, policemen have told people to dismount on the short paved section to the south, and there are no other indications that it is a cycle lane at that point. The lowered kerbs are probably for e.g. disabled access, and not intended as an aid to avoiding making bunny hops. As of May 2001 St Ebbe’s Street and New Inn Hall Street now have clea
