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Meanwhile in Inverness
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Posted 2 years ago #
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Wow. Look at that curve. Someone realised that cyclists don't turn at right angles...
Posted 2 years ago # -
I'm sure it'll be useful but it's a touch depressing that it takes five years to essentially replace a set of steps with a ramp...
Posted 2 years ago # -
All while ignoring the elephant in the room which is the massive dual-carriageway severing neighbourhoods and the car-based retail development that the new bike path now connects (why didn't they connect it with a bike path when it was first built?)
Posted 2 years ago # -
It's a £1.4m ramp built into the verge of a major trunk road. It spits people out into a hostile interchange, with no real onward cycle/walking route - certainly not one that would be used by all the charming children pictured in the publicity photos.
This is exactly what we shouldn't be building, its expensive, over-engineered, off-street, remote, and not part of any coherent network. It does however tick the boxes of "green crap done" and "motorists not inconvenienced".
Posted 2 years ago # -
It looks more like basic accessibility infra - replacing steps with a ramp - that's had a few "shared use" signs slapped on so they can pass it off as for cycling as well.
Posted 2 years ago #
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