cycle path

team47b
team47b Posts: 6,425
edited January 2013 in The cake stop
The council resurfaced a road to the village and put in a 80cm wide pavement on one side and a 2m wide one on the other side, so I asked one of the workmen why it was wider, he said it's a cycle path.

The road is about .5km long and goes to a roundabout where the paths end, there is nothing there, no houses. Why do we need a pavement? Why do we need a .5km long cycle path? Why would you cycle on the path as the road is smooth and the path is cobbled?

Anyway they planted trees on the cycle path and put the road signs on the cycle path so it is a bit of a slalom, BUT why these trees :shock:

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hit that at speed and you would stick like evil velcro :D
my isetta is a 300cc bike

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  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    team47b wrote:
    BUT why these trees :shock:

    To deter behaviour like this..

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  • Phil Fouracre
    Phil Fouracre Posts: 207
    You really couldn't make it up, could you? Where is this?
    Maybe worth enquiring if road planner actually is a closet cyclist hater - what else could they have added, a nice bit of razor wire?
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    @ Cornerblock - is this those pesky treehuggers I've heard about?

    @ Phil Fouracre - In Portugal we don't have health and safety :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike
  • cornerblock
    cornerblock Posts: 3,228
    team47b wrote:
    @ Cornerblock - is this those pesky treehuggers I've heard about?

    @ Phil Fouracre - In Portugal we don't have health and safety :D

    He looks like he may have gone beyond the hugging stage.
  • Lightning
    Lightning Posts: 360
    team47b wrote:
    Why would you cycle on the path as the road is smooth and the path is cobbled?
    This is the main problem of cycle paths in this country. Most of these paths are worst than cobbles, seriously. Does anyone really think roadies are going to use them instead of the road?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,501
    Jeremy Clarkson is not on the Portugese Roads Advisory Transport Section is he ?
    seanoconn - gruagach craic!
  • ballysmate
    ballysmate Posts: 15,996
    team47b wrote:
    Why would you cycle on the path as the road is smooth and the path is cobbled?

    Is there a convent nearby?
  • team47b
    team47b Posts: 6,425
    Ballysmate wrote:
    team47b wrote:
    Why would you cycle on the path as the road is smooth and the path is cobbled?

    Is there a convent nearby?

    :D
    my isetta is a 300cc bike

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