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Married to Night Train
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- Salford, UK
Not sure where to put this, just hoping for some quick local knowledge!
Tomorrow I cycle to Sheffield - or at least Wentworth near Sheffield, and I have to get across the A1. The friend I'm going to sent me a route, in which I'd cross at Barnsdale Bar using the A639, and then the road marked on my OS map as yellow to get me to Wrangbrooke and then Skelbrooke - but on Google maps and Streetview it's upgraded to an A road, and looks to be full of lorries.
Today he suggested a better option - from Campsall, crossing to Skelbrooke via a straight across route, the next junction to the south. Looking at Streetview, the A1 is three lanes each side at that point and there is a narrow pedestrian path, but I fear I could be there all day waiting for a gap. Plus the pedestrian path is very narrow, and I'm on the trike.
Lookin at the map, and Streetview, there's a footbridge at Skellow, with steps and a ramp, getting me across to the road to Hampole, which is on the route I need. Seems like the best bet... Except... Looking at Streetview, it sort of looks like the ramp is a series of shallow steps. It can't be surely - for wheelchairs and pushchairs?
It wouldn't be insurmountable, but a trike is a bit harder to tow up steps, esp with a stone of luggage aboard.
Anyone know it?
Tomorrow I cycle to Sheffield - or at least Wentworth near Sheffield, and I have to get across the A1. The friend I'm going to sent me a route, in which I'd cross at Barnsdale Bar using the A639, and then the road marked on my OS map as yellow to get me to Wrangbrooke and then Skelbrooke - but on Google maps and Streetview it's upgraded to an A road, and looks to be full of lorries.
Today he suggested a better option - from Campsall, crossing to Skelbrooke via a straight across route, the next junction to the south. Looking at Streetview, the A1 is three lanes each side at that point and there is a narrow pedestrian path, but I fear I could be there all day waiting for a gap. Plus the pedestrian path is very narrow, and I'm on the trike.
Lookin at the map, and Streetview, there's a footbridge at Skellow, with steps and a ramp, getting me across to the road to Hampole, which is on the route I need. Seems like the best bet... Except... Looking at Streetview, it sort of looks like the ramp is a series of shallow steps. It can't be surely - for wheelchairs and pushchairs?
It wouldn't be insurmountable, but a trike is a bit harder to tow up steps, esp with a stone of luggage aboard.
Anyone know it?