CycleStreets is a development of the Cambridge Cycle Campaign Journey Planner, which was launched in 2006.

[1] CycleStreets itself was launched on 20 March 2009;[2] which was by co-incidence the same day that it was announced that the Transport Direct Portal was about to introduce cycle routing for a small number of trial locations including Manchester.

[10] In February 2010, the ability to share short video clips was added[11] and then in March 2010 CycleStreets added Google Streetview images to the route description pages[12] and a post code look-up function.

[14] In 2007, during the development of CycleStreets, Simon Nuttall and Martin Lucas-Smith advised Transport Direct on the CycleNetXChange data exchange standard for cycle route data which was later used in the Transport Direct Portal cycle journey planner.

[15][16] In July 2009, CycleStreets was presented at the OpenStreetMap annual 'State of the Map' Conference[17] In September 2009, Martin Lucas Smith of CycleStreets presented the project at the School of Cartography Summer School.