PW wrote:Speed cushions/tables I can live with, at a pinch. The one which REALLY gets my goat is the "Pedestrian Refuge Island". Those things are potentially lethal if you don't block any attempt to overtake, and we all know the occasional idiot will try to knock you out of the way or start a fight 'cos you haven't paid enough tax to slow his journey time by 3 seconds. My old works commute was like a series of sprint intervals along Old Whittington High Street, with a series of climbs at either end. Gave up in the finish and used the canal instead for the sake of an extra 10 minutes.
There's a particularly annoying one on my morning commute. It was plonked there in conjunction with a new "facility". I can squeeze past the others on the hill when the cagers have clogged the road, but this one is particularly large and sharp-edged.
It's really only a problem when I filter and I confess I sometimes deliberately ride the wrong side of it - the only time I would ever do such a thing.
PW wrote:Speed cushions/tables I can live with, at a pinch. The one which REALLY gets my goat is the "Pedestrian Refuge Island". Those things are potentially lethal if you don't block any attempt to overtake, and we all know the occasional idiot will try to knock you out of the way or start a fight 'cos you haven't paid enough tax to slow his journey time by 3 seconds. My old works commute was like a series of sprint intervals along Old Whittington High Street, with a series of climbs at either end. Gave up in the finish and used the canal instead for the sake of an extra 10 minutes.
Is it just me, or does it often stink of ordure down at that canal?
PW wrote:There's a slurry farm across the river just after Newbridge Lane lock. Pedal like hell up the old railway track you soon get past it.
That'd be it then. Nice idea to put a recreational path through an area that smells like a cats' litter tray the morning after the animal nicked some out of date pork.
Which reminds me of proof that God is a civil engineer. Who else would put a waste disposal pipe straight through a recreation area?
Or carry low panniers, or have three wheels. And of course don't even think of riding fixed...
A shortcut has to be a challenge, otherwise it would just be the way.No situation is so dire that panic cannot make it worse. There are two kinds of people in this world: those can extrapolate from incomplete data.
My old works commute was like a series of sprint intervals along Old Whittington High Street, with a series of climbs at either end. Gave up in the finish and used the canal instead for the sake of an extra 10 minutes.
