Wanna know why some 'routes' are a bad thing?

[Arch]

If i want to cycle to the coast, 16 milesd i can.

I go under!!!!!!!!!!!!! this

Well, I suppose it's good for recumbents....

 

[vernon]

I don't think Matthew was being entirely serious (I hope).

You can never tell.

 

[skudupnorth]

Imagine the utility cycling uptake if this was indicative of the infrastructure provided?

Keep the annotations, they're full of info.

Just watched with envy It would be wonderful to have such a system in the UK but we know it will not happen and the motorist having to give way ??? That will never happen even if it was law !!!!

 

[snorri]

Imagine the utility cycling uptake if this was indicative of the infrastructure provided?.

They'd have to do something about the music to get me on there.

 

[Dayvo]

They'd have to do something about the music to get me on there.

Bagpipes?

 

[Fnaar]

On the other hand (though it may not be ideal, of course) the network is largely run by volunteers (I used to be one) and if we wanted the most direct route, we'd use the A roads. Sometimes I use Sustrans paths, sometimes I don't. depends on what sort of journey I'm making, and what sort of experience I want.

 

[asterix]

Well, I suppose it's good for recumbents....

There's one of those across Hob Moor in York. Downhill. You wouldn't want to forget to duck

 

[ComedyPilot]

I have no beef with Sustrans, as they have done a lot for cycling.

The whole point of the OP is to demonstrate why we will always have a struggle to get people cycling. No car driver would accept a 60% journey increase as an alternative to current journey length. So it is only understandable that people won't cycle as they don't feel safe on direct routes, and don't like the idea of an already physical task being made harder with unnecessary mileage.

Unless our government invest in the people and build infrastructure that we deserve.

 

[Globalti]

Former railways will offer a much quicker route because they went straight across the valleys and through the hills at the average height of the topography.

Former canals will not because they meandered to follow the contour lines, only changing height with reluctance at locks when there was no other choice.

 

[ComedyPilot]

Time to break open the old Dr Beeching maps and start route planning, and lobbying gov't.

 

[Deleted member 23692]

The trouble with old rail lines is the massive on-going maintenance cost of bridges etc

 

[asterix]

[QUOTE 2439565, member: 45"]There's one on a new canal in Droitwich, with about four inches clearance for narrow boats. Unavoidable, and better than nothing.[/quote]

Could they not have lowered the canal a bit?

 

[vernon]

[QUOTE 2439643, member: 45"]They could, but that would have meant paying for two new locks.[/quote]

I'm sure no one would nick the canal.

 

[Over The Hill]

On the other hand (though it may not be ideal, of course) the network is largely run by volunteers (I used to be one)
and if we wanted the most direct route, we'd use the A roads.
Sometimes I use Sustrans paths, sometimes I don't. depends on what sort of journey I'm making, and what sort of experience I want.

Firstly Volunteer work in anything is appreciated.
A roads being most direct? Not always. Basingstoke to Reading the A road loops all over the place while the old roman road is a country lane and shorter distance.
Oddly the Sustrans route does not follow the direct route and loops around so much that for a short while on the direct route you go the wrong way along the sustrans route. I can find no reason for the route to go more directly.
Direct cycle from my house to Reading 18 miles, A Roads 22 miles, Sustrans 30 miles.
Problem with the route is that sometimes we want a Sunday ride and sometimes we want a direct commute.
I am with the OP and generally ignore them unless they happen to coincide with the route I choose.

 

[Fnaar]

Fair enough. I probably agree with you