A corner, a kerb, a double-yellow line, a pair of cycle-clips, a paper-clip and a cigarette-butt.
There are eight million stories in the Naked City; this is just one of them.
Mystery
Mon, Sep 14, 2009 12:47
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Jo Burt has spent the majority of his life riding bikes, drawing bikes and writing about bikes. When he’s not scribbling pictures for the whole gamut of cycling media he writes words about them for road.cc and when he’s not doing either of those he’s pedaling. Then in whatever spare minutes there are in between he’s agonizing over getting his socks, cycling cap and bar-tape to coordinate just so. And is quietly disappointed that yours don’t He rides and races road bikes a bit, cyclo-cross bikes a lot and mountainbikes a fair bit too. Would rather be up a mountain.
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wtjs 11 minutes ago
@wtjs why isn’t there a removable bollard in place at either end? I'll answer my own question: because central deep steel socket - steel bollard - lock would be cheap and would work. Until the nutters move in with heavy machinery and knock them over, and the police would be too busy to do anything about it
ktache 19 minutes ago
I like the downward bit.
belugabob 20 minutes ago
@AidanR if you've spent any amount of time watching your GPS device, on a ride, you'll know that overall average speed drops more quickly whilst climbing than it rises whilst descending - because, given a climb and a descent of equal lengths, more time is spent climbing. Sustained speed, over longer distances is where the bigger gains come.
chrisonabike 35 minutes ago
Also your reminder that data show that "wider road" doesn't mean "more careful sharing" (or even "higher capacity"). What it *does* mean is *higher speed*. And possibly "less attentive/ careful drivers".
Rendel Harris 36 minutes ago
Reminds one of that line in The Blues Brothers when they asked the wife of the proprietor of Bob's Country Bunker what kind of music they usually played, "Oh we have both kinds, country and western." Your version of looking at it from both sides is first to look at it from a pro-car perspective, then to look at it from an anti-active-travel perspective.
chrisonabike 40 minutes ago
@chrisonabike other end. There appear to be two access points, one would involve driving up a track, the other involves turning off the main road (not in the expected diversion direction) and presumably now has a similar entry (has an older streetview image though, before construction finished). As an explanation I'm definitely going with "well it says there should be a road here and it looks like I can...". Or just "sod it, not driving the long way, that's ridiculous".
chrisonabike 47 minutes ago
@chrisonabike And easily confused with the road, that path...
chrisonabike 48 minutes ago
Streetview safari - starting from (alas - outside) Penpont and heading east. Can't see why the path is needed - clearly ideal for sharing by all modes! 😉
mdavidford 1 hour ago
Yep. From the point of view of the cyclist or pedestrian about to be run over from behind, as well as that of the one about to be hit head on.
belugabob 1 hour ago
@jackcycles "So it sounds like drivers might genuinely not know where they are meant to be going and simply see the path alongside and assume that’s the diversion." Only if you are despately clutching at straws and have no idea about road markings or signage. "By the way, that photo in the article exemplifies why segregated shared use paths are an absolutely crap idea. Imagine I’m riding there, doing 20mph. Am I meant to use the path with people spewed haphazardly all over it? Or the road where drivers get upset by cyclists ignoring the expensive new infrastructure they’ve paid for? Lose lose." You exercise your judgement/rights, as you would in any other situation. " Sure it’s nice for people to have a jolly with their kids at the weekend, but let’s be honest it would make far more sense just to widen the existing road for pedestrians and cyclists as an integrated solution, and families can go to the upgraded local park with the money saved." Why do you think that this would be safer and/or cheaper (never mind pleasant)?
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The thief was obviously a
The thief was obviously a transvestite smoker on his way home from the office.
Have you been drinking or worse?