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Cycling in the sun
And they grit roads not the path usually though the local councils did realise they got that wrong recently when lots of calls to the ambulance occurred on one morning and the injuries included broken bones and hips.
Is that even I cycle path. Looks more like a field. I get your pointDo you get roads like this .... (Not just for a day ... For months)
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And that's not like that because nobody uses it, I am normally in sight of between 1 to 5 cyclists at any one moment, and the two lighter lines are the opposite directions of travel.
Do you get roads like this .... (Not just for a day ... For months)
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And that's not like that because nobody uses it, I am normally in sight of between 1 to 5 cyclists at any one moment, and the two lighter lines are the opposite directions of travel.
It's the cycle path next to the ring road in Bristol - two or three lane dual carriageway, and yes it is well used including by me and at least one or two others from here as well as the general public but it was finally cleared a month ago.Is that even I cycle path. Looks more like a field. I get your point
Some are, but then some are pretty good. Unfortunately you don't always find out which they are until you're on them. There is however a perception that if there is a cycle/shared used path available then it should be used, you've even expressed this yourself. I think many drivers are firmly of the opinion that it has to be used. There are plenty of paths near me that I use on a regular basis, however some of them run alongside roads where if I feel the urge I can push along at 25 - 30 mph, that isn't a speed which I should be doing if I am sharing a path with anybdy else, so I'll use the road. But I do find I need to be a little more robust when I do this as I will invariably get beeped or shouted at. The fact is that many cycle facilities are there for the convenience of motorised transport not cyclists and the more we get shoved onto them by frustrated motorists the more we'll find ourselves getting shoved off roads which have no facilities nearby.Yeah fair enough. If they're in that condition that really isn't safe at all. It seems that the main point here is more about the fact that some cycle paths are actually unusable
Not a unique situation. A similar shared use path runs alongside a new road bordering the edge of a new housing development - on the housing side. It has obviously been designed to cater for school children riding to the newly built local school - very worthy and indeed successful - lots of kids on bikes. But the bike traffic flow is therefore essentially in one direction, twice a day. For anyone other than a slow, local, utility cyclist the path is a pain, access difficult from the country side, crossing a number of side roads into the estate, and clogged by pedestrians and dog walkers. So we stay on the road, and get the abuse.There is an alternative route to work that I have occasionally taken and there is a beautiful cycle path that runs along side a busy, fast road with a couple of blind bends for about 1 mile but I will use the road rather than the cycle path because the path is an ABSOLUTE ARSE to get on/off. In one direction you have to stop and cross the road to get onto the path. If you treat it like a junction, no one understands what you're doing because there's no side road and its not a driveway so they try to squeeze past on the left while you wait for traffic to clear, or OVERTAKE me while I'm trying to turn right across the road. If I get off and try and cross the whole road like a pedestrian, the traffic is constant so I have to wait ages and ages for a gap.
Is this genuine?
Is this genuine?
^^^^ this. There is another similar example September 2010.Is this genuine?