New cycle path opens (Cumbria):

[SpokeyDokey]

Good news for a change:

"BBC News - New £600k cycle path opens in Cumbrian coastal village - BBC News"

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cx2vwgyg074o

 

[sevenfourate]

^^^^ Sounds bliss !

 

[steverob]

Must be something they're putting in the water in Cumbria. They've just finished the Carlisle Southern Link Road a week or so back and at the same time they've built a shared cycle path running next to the whole 5 mile length of it, which then links up with a further 4 mile path round the rest of the town that already existed, so it's 9 miles total now.

The old road used to have bits and pieces of cycle path here and there, but it would appear and disappear, so you'd have to go back on busy roads for parts, plus you were expected to dismount at roundabouts and use pedestrian crossings to get across main roads. Now not only is the path continuous, but at most of the busier roundabouts, the path crosses on bridges so you don't have to get involved with traffic at all if you don't want to.

(Drone shot from YouTube taken on the day the road opened to show example of cycle path)

 

[Drago]

Certainly looks promising.

 

[T4tomo]

also built on popular route in a useful place, unlike a lot of new infrastructure which fall into the vanity project category.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

It looks to be a sunny warm day, why are they all wearing jackets like it‘s about to rain?

 

[matticus]

It looks to be a sunny warm day, why are they all wearing jackets like it‘s about to rain?

Why do you think it's warm? Sun+Cumbria => warm is a flawed assumption!!!

 

[annedonnelly]

It looks to be a sunny warm day, why are they all wearing jackets like it‘s about to rain?

Because if it's anything like here (slightly further north) it will have rained on 17 out of 18 days in June so far.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Because if it's anything like here (slightly further north) it will have rained on 17 out of 18 days in June so far.

I think here we had no more than 4 completely dry days so far

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Why do you think it's warm? Sun+Cumbria => warm is a flawed assumption!!!

The sun is directly overhead i.e. midday. Even in Cumbria that is warm enough for no waterproof.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

The sun is directly overhead i.e. midday. Even in Cumbria that is warm enough for no waterproof.

Not if a cold wind is coming in from the north or east it isn't.

 

[Brandane]

I think here we had no more than 4 completely dry days so far

Aye, in 2026 not just June?
Been the worst June I can remember, and there's been a lot of bad ones.
I fear we are not going to get a summer this year (again).

 

[Alex321]

Must be something they're putting in the water in Cumbria. They've just finished the Carlisle Southern Link Road a week or so back and at the same time they've built a shared cycle path running next to the whole 5 mile length of it, which then links up with a further 4 mile path round the rest of the town that already existed, so it's 9 miles total now.

The old road used to have bits and pieces of cycle path here and there, but it would appear and disappear, so you'd have to go back on busy roads for parts, plus you were expected to dismount at roundabouts and use pedestrian crossings to get across main roads. Now not only is the path continuous, but at most of the busier roundabouts, the path crosses on bridges so you don't have to get involved with traffic at all if you don't want to.

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(Drone shot from YouTube taken on the day the road opened to show example of cycle path)

THat looks like what new infrastructure should be.

 

[Brandane]

THat looks like what new infrastructure should be.

It does indeed. Let's hope it doesn't become a racetrack for the illegal e-bike/motorbike, and scooter mob, as has happened on a lot of the Sustrans "shared" paths.
I was cycling in Bordeaux recently and as always it was a joy to use the French cycle facilities but sadly the authorities seem to have given up trying to enforce the laws against using these illegal vehicles on cycling or pedestrian facilities. Even in France. So what chance have we got in the UK?

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Not if a cold wind is coming in from the north or east it isn't.

I obviously feel the cold less than you guys.