Bike route networks classification (ICN, NCN, RCN and LCN)

[Richard (Richard Fairhurst)]

@ramthelinefeed

… however when Sustrans scrapped a quarter of their NCN routes (in 2020 - see National Cycle Network cuts a quarter of its routes on safety grounds | Cycling holidays | The Guardian) this means they were also effectively scrapping those EV routes.
I wrote to Eurovelo at the time pointing this out, and they replied telling me they had decided to keep the EV routes unchanged… but increasingly the NCN signage on the scrapped NCN routes has been removed, so the EV routes are even more notional than before.

I spoke to a Sustrans route director at the time - they were, and are, very aware of the EuroVelo situation with these routes. You’ll see that there is now an increasing amount of dedicated EuroVelo signage both on and off the NCN in the UK!