resolvedHaving gotten all my utility routes nailed down I'm starting to think about striking out from my new place in Broxburn for leisure rides but unfortunately keep running into the West Lothian Deadzone, ie basically everything between Broxburn and Linlithgow west of Kirkliston. It'd be nice to pop over to Linlithgow for an afternoon or down to Bo'ness, but there don't seem to be any coherent connections in the region at all even if you count crummy narrow footpaths, your choices are to head over to Dechmont and take Burnhouse/Manse Roads which are unlit national speed limit, or go up the B8406 which has a big section with no pavement right at the point it turns into a 50mph winding uphill gradient. There's the canal towpath, but it's double the distance, half of it in the wrong direction, and turns to even-narrower-than-Edinburgh mucky gravel after Winchburgh by the look of things.
Waiting for the ATAP to be implemented will see me retired or possibly deceased before they get far enough down their to-do list to put in the proposed infrastructure on those routes, so I'm wondering if anyone's ridden either of the on-road routes before. Bearing in mind I'll be tottering along at ~15-16mph on my upright ebike not tanning it on a roadbike, am I better to just write off anything to the north, or is one or the other route tolerable?
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