Cylox member Andy Chivers checks out some old cycleways and looks at the possibility of them being upgraded. We think of the 1930s as the bicycle heyday – car ownership was minimal, long-distance commuting was confined to train and bus, and employers provided mass bike parking facilities. Pictures of hordes of bike riders exiting Cowley Motor Works are emblematic of that time. What is less well known is that the Department for Transport was enthusiastic about bike use too and funded 500 miles of high-quality bike routes around the country. Impressively the requirement was 9-ft-wide cycleways on both sides of the road.