Narrowest cycle paths ?

[Threevok]

This has to be the narrowest I have seen - Taff Trail (Route 8) heading north at the top of New Church Street, Merthyr Tydfil

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...4118c54daa314bea!8m2!3d51.762763!4d-3.4035811

I barely manage to get the MTB bars through there.

Anyone seen narrower ?

 

[Welsh wheels]

I remember cycling through there on my hybrid, it was pretty narrow! Took some fairly skillful maneuvering not to fall off!

 

[Threevok]

I remember cycling through there on my hybrid, it was pretty narrow! Took some fairly skillful maneuvering not to fall off!

I was crapping myself in case something was comming the other way

 

[Globalti]

Typical example of local authority box-ticking. "We've created x miles of cycle tracks..." by appropriating footpaths and painting lines on roads.

 

[ColinJ]

Typical example of local authority box-ticking. "We've created x miles of cycle tracks..." by appropriating footpaths and painting lines on roads.

Often a fair comment, but in this case you are wrong - it is nothing of the sort; it is taking the path up along a disused railway line, so I would say that is a pretty sensible thing to do!

If you try, you'll see that Streetview will actually take you up the path. It appears that Google is sending people out with hand-held 360 degree cameras on certain long-distance paths. I discovered that on the Tarka Trail in Devon last year.

 

[Mrklaw]

Often a fair comment, but in this case you are wrong - it is nothing of the sort; it is taking the path up along a disused railway line, so I would say that is a pretty sensible thing to do!

If you try, you'll see that Streetview will actually take you up the path. It appears that Google is sending people out with hand-held 360 degree cameras on certain long-distance paths. I discovered that on the Tarka Trail in Devon last year.

Was it a OO gauge railway?

 

[ColinJ]

Was it a OO gauge railway?

Ha ha - It looks like somebody built a house's driveway across the original route of the railway line. I reckon that it would have come out where those gates are, next to the cycle path.

 

[Threevok]

Yeah, that hill is a bit steep for a railway. I'm not sure (providing it's the same line) how that connected to Cefn-Coed viaduct I crossed a few hundred yards earlier

There must have been another viaduct there, now long gone

 

[Globalti]

Beside the gates you can see the bottom few courses of the solid Victorian stonework of the bridge abutment. The white house looks 1970s. The course of the railway has been built over and only reappears a few hundred yards SW where there's an old Railway hotel.

So yes, the builders of the house constructed the tall wall to separate the ROW from the drive.

 

[Slick]

Seen quite a bit worse and like yours this one is worth it for the reward and its the cycle path from fort William to Glencoe just before Ballahullush if anyone knows it but not only is it narrow but passing all the hotel and b&b driveways. It's really only a matter of time before the worst happens.

 

[mjr]

If you try, you'll see that Streetview will actually take you up the path. It appears that Google is sending people out with hand-held 360 degree cameras on certain long-distance paths.

Really? The one I saw on the Norfolk Coast Path had a backpack-mounted one. It looked like a football on a pole. The pictures still aren't on streetview so maybe I'm wrong.

 

[simonali]

This has to be the narrowest I have seen - Taff Trail (Route 8) heading north at the top of New Church Street, Merthyr Tydfil

https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place...4118c54daa314bea!8m2!3d51.762763!4d-3.4035811

I barely manage to get the MTB bars through there.

Anyone seen narrower ?

I hope it wasn't you that dropped that crisp packet?

 

[ColinJ]

Really? The one I saw on the Norfolk Coast Path had a backpack-mounted one. It looked like a football on a pole. The pictures still aren't on streetview so maybe I'm wrong.

I used Streetview to go a few hundred metres along the Taff Trail and was able to turn the picture round in the usual way to see what was to the sides and behind.

Thinking about it, the camera would have to be on some kind of pole above the operator or (s)he would be in the way of it!

 

[classic33]

I used Streetview to go a few hundred metres along the Taff Trail and was able to turn the picture round in the usual way to see what was to the sides and behind.

Thinking about it, the camera would have to be on some kind of pole above the operator or (s)he would be in the way of it!

Google were looking for tricycle riders for down near you, Hebden Bridge, due to a few pedestrianised areas.

Google Backpack camera, 45lb in weight.

 

[ColinJ]

Google were looking for tricycle riders for down near you, Hebden Bridge, due to a few pedestrianised areas.

Google Backpack camera, 45lb in weight.
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If they ever start 'Streetviewing' every footpath and bridleway I would certainly be up for wandering about the local hills with one of those on my back!