Milton Keynes redway system

A redway runs along the disused track bed of the former Wolverton to Newport Pagnell Line.

The Milton Keynes redway system (locally known as redways) is an over 200 miles (320 kilometres) network of shared use paths for cyclists and pedestrians in Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England.[1] It is generally surfaced with red tarmac, and criss-crosses most of the city.

Some of these redways run next to the grid roads and local roads, with underpasses or bridges where they intersect major roads. Others run through park land and along the floodplain of the Great Ouse and its tributaries.

Construction of the redway commenced in the 1970s with the start of the construction of the "new city". By 1980 it was the largest urban cycleway system in the UK with 22 miles (35.4 km) in use.[2]

  1. ^ "Redways". MK Council. Retrieved 23 May 2018.
  2. ^ Bainbridge, Cyril (22 November 1980). "Six million with nothing to lose but their chains". The Times. No. 60783. p. 3. Retrieved 16 June 2014.