After some years of me complaining that the trimming along the shared path through Royal Park Gate was insufficient, the Council (presumably) came back and hacked it a lot more.
As a result the vegetation is clear of the path and it is possible to walk or cycle past without being molested.
Thanks, Matthew! How die you get some action taken?
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to get the Council to do something about the Tudor Drive bus stop, whose shelter is parallel to and runs alongside the cycle path. Bus passengers getting off at that stop have little time to react to a bike because the shelter obscures cyclists travelling southwards. (I've more than once shrieked a warning to a bus passenger ahead of me of the approach of a cyclist.) I've emailed photos of how this situation is dealt with in Edinburgh--parallel white lines painted across the cycle path alert both cyclists and passengers to the possibility of encountering the'other'. Councillors said they'd bring it "to the attention of our sustainable transport, cycling, highways and Go Cycle teams". Eight months later and nothing appears to have been done about it. One tin of paint would probably fix this at the relatively few bus stops in Kingston similarly running behind a bus shelter. Eventually, if no action is taken, this will result in a fatality.
Thanks, Matthew! How did you get some action taken?
ReplyDeleteI've been trying to get the Council to do something about the Tudor Drive bus stop, whose shelter is right next to the cycle path. Bus passengers have little time to react to a cycle because of the shelter. (I've more than once shrieked a warning to a bus passenger ahead of me of the approach of a cyclist.) I've emailed photos of how this situation is dealt with in Edinburgh--parallel white lines painted across the cycle path alert both cyclists and passengers to the possibility of encountering the'other'. Councillors said they'd bring it "to the attention of our sustainable transport, cycling, highways and Go Cycle teams". Eight months later and nothing has been done about it. One tin of paint would probably fix this at the relatively few bus stops in Kingston similarly running behind a bus shelter. Eventually, if no action is taken, this will result in a fatality.
Good to see photos after a rather long break...
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