Schemes
Coventry Arena to Wood End
RESERVE SCHEME
There are 20 reserve schemes and it is intended that individual schemes will be called forward should any of the 79 schemes comprising the final Connect2 Project find they are unable to complete their programme.
Coventry’s Arena site, comprising Ricoh football stadium and a burgeoning retail park, are rapidly regenerating a long-derelict site in the north of the City. Whilst the Arena itself is quite well furnished with walking and cycling routes, connections with the wider network remain incomplete.
The Arena to Wood End scheme aims to rectify this by bridging the adjacent canal, re-building car-free paths through Longford Park and in the Manor House and Wood End areas and devising safer means of negotiating difficult roads encountered en-route. The resulting connections will go a long way to restoring the appeal of cycling in a part of City where, for too long, the car has dominated.
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"This is a great honour; I love the thought of becoming part of the landscape alongside Dick Wagstaff and the great Richard Burton. I'm hoping that my sculpture might be able to persuade Burton's sculpture to quote some poetry of an evening, or at least a bit of War of the Worlds." Rob Brydon
"Making it easy for millions of people to change their world by walking and cycling to the local places they want to go"
