Beauty and the Bike

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vernon

Harder than Ronnie Pickering
Location
Meanwood, Leeds
Clearly I'm not the intended audience for the video. My jaw drooped when I spotted the opening sequence along Victoria Road pointing towards Bank Top Station. Darlington, the focus of the film, is my home town though I have not lived there since 1980. I visit often enough to see changes and some of the pedestrianisation if the town centre and the cycle routes have had a mixed reception. High Row has been ruined by its reshaping and there were protests about the effects of removing kerbstones on the partially sighted and blind population. Darlington received a substantial grant to increase cycling and I do know that there are cycle events the start in the town but I'm not entirely sure that the impact has been huge. Installing signage and designating streets as cycle routes doesn't necessarily make them useable. The small retailers and traders reckon that the town centre redevelopment and making it a car free, bike friendly zone has reduced footfall and sales.
 
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