Tony Orgee, cabinet member for community infrastructure, said the area would always be a "bottleneck", but described the addition of a new cyclelane as "a very positive step forward".
Timid at first, easily swayed (quite literally) by the motorbikes whizzing two inches (five centimetres) past my pedals, I now happily join in the waving of fists at pedestrians or lorry drivers hogging MY bus and cyclelane.
On Kedleston Road both inbound bus lanes will be removed while on Duffield Road the bus lane will be scrapped in its entirety, with new cycle paths installed from Broadway to Palm Court roundabout.