Cycle Path in Kirkwall.............Why?

[Alex H]

It's in the top right of this map on the main car park

https://www.google.com/maps/@58.9809959,-2.9649558,19z/data=!3m1!1e3

 

[Drago]

That house just left of centre in the background, I looked at buying that once.

 

[annedonnelly]

'Cos car parks are horribly dangerous? All the drivers are focused on finding spaces or getting out of spaces or the shopping they're about to do/have just done. I hate walking & cycling through them.

An elderly friend of my dad was run over by someone he knew reversing out of a parking space at a crematorium when they were about to attend a funeral. He was lucky not to lose his leg - it was about to be amputated but a senior surgeon decided it was worth trying to save.

Pretty sure that I've parked in that car park but I don't think the cycle path was there then - about 10 years ago.

 

[Slick]

It does also tick a box when the local council can say they are providing so many miles of cycle path.

 

[PeteXXX]

I hold the honour of being 4th fastest clockwise around the Peedie Sea just behind that car park.. 👍

 

[Twilkes]

Probably stops cars parking in the gap as well.

 

[MontyVeda]

Seems logical to me as it gives cyclists and peds a route through the car parks in which cars won't be reversing

 

[Alex H]

Seems logical to me as it gives cyclists and peds a route through the car parks in which cars won't be reversing

How can it do that? It's only 30m or so. The car park is a couple of hundred each way.

 

[Alex H]

Pretty sure that I've parked in that car park but I don't think the cycle path was there then - about 10 years ago.

And it's still not finished. Only a couple of hundred metres more to go.

 

[MontyVeda]

How can it do that? It's only 30m or so. The car park is a couple of hundred each way.

looking at street view there's another stretch through the carpark leading towards Lidl

 

[pjd57]

Not great.
But I've found Kirkwall in General ok for cycling in and around