Worst actual cycle path?

[albion]

https://road.cc/content/news/cycling-live-blog-16-october-2023-304507

I can think of several highly neglected ones. That one has a good bit to the right.

 

[Alex321]

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/...d-new-ferries-to-stop-it-leaving-uk-nr28ksv0p

I can think of several highly neglected ones. That one has a good bit to the right.

I don't think that was the link you intended to post

 

[albion]

Thanks. I have made far worse click fails in my time.

 

[fossyant]

The Alan Newton Way has got some massive pot holes in these days - lorded up as a new cycle way a few years ago, and sections are either a mud bog, or carpet bombed with pot holes. Other bits are fine.

 

[Dogtrousers]

Amost certainly not.

From the pictures it looks survivable, which is a real bonus. OK, it's got some big cracks in it, but if you keep your eye out you should be able to ride continuously on hard surface.

 

[wiggydiggy]

Part of Route 66 - https://maps.app.goo.gl/AsEg1FHjWb8vzKQdA

A rutted dirt path. It doesn't get better. I've ridden this a few years ago but now take a different route east of leeds alongside the A63 which although nosier it at least has a tarmacked segregated path.

https://maps.app.goo.gl/gWQSJzCe77zt1PRn9

 

[Drago]

Seen a lot worse in MK once. A nice bit of redway which ended at the time without warning or barriers in a flight of thirty steps. Fortunately it was close to the Hospital.

 

[cougie uk]

Has anyone ridden the path by Frodsham Wind Farm lately ? I rode it about two years ago after not having been there for 7 years or so because the road was so bad. It's like the Runway at Port Stanley. Even on a gravel bike it was hideous.
Surely it's been patched since then but I'm afraid to look.
It's part of NCN 5 apparently.

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Incredibly, the Manchester Airport orbital "cycleway" features this.

 

[Dogtrousers]

It's like the Runway at Port Stanley.

Speaking of runways I rode along a bit of an NCN route across an old airfield near Selby. It was in places just a sea of broken tarmac lumps and almost impassible. (Although I suspect that my friend, who was navigating, may have gone a little off-piste)

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Incredibly, the Manchester Airport orbital "cycleway" features this.

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Unfortunately steps on “cycle” tracks are fairly normal. Only rideable one way unless you are particularly good.

 

[albion]

It made me think of this one, it being the Sedgefield NCN1 link to the main NCN1 at Wynyard Forest Park.
https://maps.app.goo.gl/EtdcWiABzxugTWGt9
On the right, that was once a wide gravel/tarmac footpath. It is down to 4 inches or zero in places. And mind your head!

 

[Ming the Merciless]

 

[steveindenmark]

I was riding home from work on a cycle path way out in the countryside last week. I came across a pick up truck driving towards me on the cyclepath I pulled over and the driver smiled and waved. On the back of the truck was a huge blower which blew all the leaves, twigs and debris off the bike path. I then had a 12km ride along the path and did not even see a leaf.

But I do live in Denmark. 😁

 

[roubaixtuesday]

The one on the A14 near Kettering blows my mind every time I drive past. There's no cycle track along the dual carriageway, so I guess you're supposed to cycle in the slow lane, but they helpfully provide a cycle way to ensure you're safe at the slip roads.