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This is the cut thorugh between Fishwives Causeway and Mountcastle Crescent, next to the railway depot.
It's a small step folks but this was two barriers and now it's one. It was pretty tight, you couldn't cycle thorugh it (and presumabaly contravened the Disability Discrimination Act).
They could have removed both barriers but hey let's not go completely crazy!
That's good.
Do you know if a lot of people complained or is the Local Team actually going around looking at its 'patch'?
I'm not aware of any concerted effort to remove this. It could be proactive action from the Local Team or perhaps a few complaints and it finally got to the top of their to-do list?
And now we have this. It's certainly better than the old chicane where you needed a foot down to negotiate. But I'm not sure what it adds to the path...
Well last time I went that way I had to unhitch the trailer. Looks like I could get through now.
It's such a tokenistic effort, that wouldn't keep a quad bike out never mind a motor bike, you do wonder why it's worth the effort. I don't imagine it would slow down the "speeding cyclists".
Still, as you say it's much better than it used to be.
@riffian "and presumabaly contravened the Disability Discrimination Act"
The DDA was replaced by the Equality Act in 2010. Like the DDA the EA doesn't include details like path design for access. It's more of a set of guiding principles. In this case I think the Act would support the view that reasonable measures should be taken to remove this barrier to access for people in wheelchairs or with other mobility problems. The EA (and DDA) don't specify which guidelines to use - DIN, ISO, BSA, Sustrans. So it's not a great way to get action on dangerous chicanes in a form that simultaneously meets everyone's needs.
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