Cycling Bristol to Yate?

[runner]

Hi all
As I may be working in Yate in the following months is it possible to follow the cycle track the whole way there from Bristol Hanham. I have done a recce and travelled from Bitton to Emerson Green and then headed north. The track becomes more woodland/rural but is still very easy to cycle...however I appeared to reach the end of it at Westerleigh and was confronted with the main roads? Is this the only way into the centre of Yate? By the centre I mean the central shopping area and around lidl and the magistrates court? Does anyone cycle this route?

 

[Arjimlad]

It's a quiet-ish route up the road opposite where the path gives out at Westerleigh by the train terminus. Then onto shared paths around to Yate centre. You can cut through the housing estates. Try putting the route into cyclestreets.net for a quiet route, perhaps ?

http://www.cyclestreets.net/journey/46538757/

The bit of the route through Wapley bushes is nice but I am not sure how much I'd want to do it in the dark.

 

[runner]

Thanks for that Armimlad

 

[summerdays]

Lots of cyclists dismount signs on the ring road path at the moment, but I'm not sure whether they are trying to keep it open despite saying they were going to close it whilst they installed lights or if that phase is still to come.

 

[Seevio]

These are your basic choices. The shortest route involves going through Westerleigh which can get a little busy during commuter time. There is also the section through Besom Lane/Wapley Common which is unlit.

The second shortest route leaves the cycle path at the point that there is a gate across it and goes through quiet roads until you hit the A432. There is a cycle lane all the way to Yate but it stops when you get get to the railway bridge. Traffic through Yate is not fast and holding your line shouldn't be hard.

The longest suggested route is all cycle paths until you hit Coalpit Heath which is a 30 zone.

 

[thornstar]

The thing about the A432 is, particularly through Coalpit Heath, it's a wide road but there seem to be those pointless traffic islands everywhere. There's a bit between the Winterborne Down/Kendleshire which gets narrow and I've had a few near-misses there. There was a particularly pot holed bit on the Bristol-bound side just before the Badminton Road trading estate and council offices which I don't know the state of now. It's also a lorry-laden road since they're all trying to get to the trading estates near the railway station or A46. I'm not a fan of the route through Westerleigh since the off-road cycle paths are mud tracks (except the Wapley bit) and the narrow, pot-holed roads carry fairly busy commuter traffic getting to the M4 or the ring road. Mind you, from Wapley, you can go over the new railway bridge, follow Slimbridge Close to the path on Scott Way which'll get you to the shopping centre.

 

[JohnClimber]

Our office is in Yate and one of my colleagues cycles to and from Bristol every day.
Let me know if you want him to draw you a route.
I live up in the North West so I've no idea at all

 

[summerdays]

There was a particularly pot holed bit on the Bristol-bound side just before the Badminton Road trading estate and council offices which I don't know the state of now.

I kept meaning to report that bit and for the location I was intending to put something like look out the windows in your office!!

Anyway I can report that bit was fixed earlier this year and is now quite smooth!