It all looked so promising back in 2020, when Trafford Council had big ambitions to section off a seven mile stretch of the A56 with cones, to provide safe space for cycling. Now here we are, almost four years on and it looks like what remains of the cones are disappearing week by week, with no signs of them being replaced or anything more permanent happening. Is it the end of the A56 pop-up cycle lanes?
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Following on from last month’s update, some more from the transformation of Kingsway, Stretford as the work continues.
Continue reading “More from Stretford-on-sea (Kingsway) – February 2024”
For anyone familiar with my older posts about Stretford may remember proposals for Kingsway, way way back in 2015. These were part of the public realm scheme put forward by the old Tory exec, that saw most of the subways filled at the junction with the A56, making an absolute pig’s ear of the junction and not much else.
Continue reading “Progress on Kingsway, Stretford – January 2024”
Our trip to Bath really wouldn’t have been complete without a ride along the famous Bristol and Bath Railway Path. The history of this trailblazing traffic-free route is very much tied up with the history of Sustrans, who initially developed it back in 1979 and active travel campaigning in the UK.
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The Bath Two Tunnels Greenway wasn’t something we knew about before arriving in Bath. It was thanks to a couple of helpful suggestions on Twitter that we came to find out about it. On reading more about the route, it sounded perfect for us and wasn’t too far from where we were staying.
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At the end of May 2023, we travelled down to Somerset, to spend a week in a lodge on the outskirts of Bath at the Bath Mill Lodge Retreat. We had been due to stay in Bristol at the same time of year in 2022, but ended up cancelling, after I somewhat foolishly broke my foot skateboarding 🤦
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After spending 24 hours in Bremen, we arrived back in Berlin, for the final leg of our trip to Germany in 2022, following a very small part of the band Pavement’s European tour. It was late afternoon when our ICE train pulled into Berlin Hauptbahnhof, as the sun was beginning to set on a sunny Saturday in November.
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Every time we’ve been to The Wirral, I’ve said I should have brought my bike, so I could go for a ride along the waterfront. On an unusually warm October day, as we planned to head over to New Brighton, I decided it was a great opportunity to go for a ride, and loaded the bike onto the rack.
Continue reading “New Brighton to West Kirby”
Now I wasn’t able to attend the first of the recent Kidical Mass rides back in May this year, which looked like a fantastic event, so I was very keen to get down to September’s Kidical Mass ride.
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As I mentioned in the first post Walking, cycling and drinking in Berlin, we’d arranged to spend an evening in Bremen as well as Berlin, so we could fit in a second Pavement gig, during Germany trip.
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Dom Cycling 