Do you have cycle/multiuser paths near you and do you use them?
Yes, plenty of them.
Most are a dog's dinner, the better ones are full of dog walkers
and now Deliveroo riders too.
I use them because I'm slow, also I would like to stay alive.
Sometimes you get shouted at by pedestrians, they tell you to ride on the road.
If you ride on the road, drivers will shout to get on the cycle path.
But you will never change motorists views.
I agree on this.
I just cycle along the tow path and thankfully it goes all the way upto Glasgow.
I rode Glasgow to Embra along the canal twice, the opposite way once.
I don't like the route, it's nice to look at the scenery but the actual riding is slow, sometimes dangerous (slimy cobbles under bridges, aqueducts), pedestrians and dog walkers don't like us cycling there.
either provide an ASL for cyclists to join and wait in
There's a good chance that a car will already be in it!
On the path over the Pass of Drumochter that runs alongside the A9 the main hazard tends to be dodging the plastic bottles full of piss that the HGV drivers throw out of their wagons.
Oh, I rode this, never knew of this disgusting habit!
Maybe when cycling it would be as well to assume you have been called up to fight in a war and your job is to negotiate a minefield - with the expectation you may or not make it to the far side, and if you do, and you sigh with great relief but then you are dismayed when the platoon sergeant calls out you have to make it back.
Yes indeed.
Before I set out on my commute, I give myself a wee prep talk: "you can do this, you can do this"
It has worked for 15 years
