Norwich levels off infamous tree pits in cycle lane – claims that was always the plan

They do know that trees grow, right?

Oh, no

I wonder why cycle lanes can only be constructed in straight lines?

I could use this stretch of road to commute home on. Except I won’t, because it’s terrible.

i will now have to find another route, because I can’t cycle near this useless facility as that will involve lots of car horns because I’m not on the crap cycle lane.

it was better with no facilities. 

plan
noun
1. a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something.*

*Except for Norwich.
 

I wonder if this weekend will bring anything further to the ever continuing saga surrounding VeloLife?  The past couple have been quiet.

Within not so many years the tree roots will be destroying the tarmac and these already poor facilities will join the rest of the UKs crap cycle paths.  Nottm council recently resurface a popular bike path, and I kid you not, it took about a month before it was sprouting through it.  I think they only consider traffic weight in the 'design'.

"When in a hole stop digging" is something that Norwich Council have clearly never heard.

If there was true "planning for this all along" they might have put in those watering pipes, or this could be that permeable tarmac that lets water drain through, but then is very suceptable to destruction with a few freeze thaw cycles.

My commute along the thames was tarmacced after me using it for several years.  I liked the hardpacked gravel right along the thames and the mud through the park.  For a start dog walkers would wander over the grass, might as well grass or mud, grass, once tarmacced they stick to the path, slightly selfish from me I guess.  But then both hardpak and mud are self leveling, it is now bumpy as hell, thin tarmac is succeptable to tree root growth.  I have encountered a cyclist having recently been thrown from his bike by the nasty bumps.  I did stop to make sure he was OK.  And thin tarmac was heavily denouded everytime the thames flooded.  Which happens there every few years.  Tarmac need regular, repair gravel and mud stays gravelly and muddy.

As the previous news item
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It was always the intention for the tree pits to be levelled off to provide a suitable area for cycling

I call BS on that!  

Bollox. There's no way they would have done that blockwork if they'd intended to rip it up later. And that infill asphalt looks bloody awful. Council better hope nobody catches a handlebar on one of those tree trunks.....Unusable anyway - will be full of shoppers walking.     

Don't worry,trees will sicken and die with no/little source of water/nutrition...

Look how they have either removed or simply covered those edging cobbles, as if this was ever going to be the plan.

Keep digging...

Why don't they just plant the trees in the road instead? Simples!

However, there are still trees protruding into the cycle lane