Sunday 2 January 2011

Whitworth Street - WTF?

Can the idiot who wasted public money on this please own up...



No, this is not a faked photo, this really is a cycle path on a pavement with a pole in the middle. It is quite impossible to enter this track without falling off your bike into the path of a passing bus, or onto the pavement.



Not only that, this track ends in a give way sign, and there isn't even a dropped curb at the end so you can join the bus lane without a jolt.



On Google Maps you can see the before version - they removed the post box, other wise this would have been the most idiotic cycle facility ever...


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And it is a real shame that they removed a lovely old postbox to build an unusable cycle path!


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Just how much public money was wasted on this useless crap? I'd love to find out - if anyone knows the answer please tell.

3 comments:

  1. We note your assertion that it is impossible to cycle this path without falling off, but without evidence that you have attempted such an action the assertion is merely a claim, a belief, not a fact.

    Please can you attempt to ride it and include a video of the attempt, such as in the Bristol Traffic Project's coverage of the Coronation Road cycle path:

    http://bristolcars.blogspot.com/2010/08/coronation-road-cycle-path.html

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  2. SteveL, your video clearly shows the cyclist straying over the white line onto the pedestrian area in a couple of places - surely you could repeat the run with the victim instructed to stay the right side of the white line... ;~)

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  3. Now that we have a bike mountable camera so that the path doesn't need to be cycled one-handed, we hope that one of our expendable team members can be persuaded to do the route at full race speed, ideally in the dark, to make for a more entertaining video.

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