Lets rescue Britains forgotten 1930s cycleways.

[albion]

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIGM6yVVrkg&t=171s


This is the video from Carlton Reids ongoing effort to protect and advance Britains forgotten protected cycleways.
Click direct into youtube and you can view Carltons original kickstart intro video.
I do not have a link for that one..

 

[MossCommuter]

Interesting stuff, nice video; there is one near me that I only identified after reading this thread.

https://www.cyclechat.net/threads/lost-cycle-ways.218097/

 

[petek]

From visiting rellys ( by car) back in the 1950s I seem to remember a well kept cycleway all the way along the old A6 trunk road. Or did I dream it?

 

[BoldonLad]

Interesting, not very far (ie about 10 miles) from where I live.

 

[Glow worm]

I believe this is one of the 1930s routes (on the right) which would be part of my commute (Cambridge). Sadly the surface is terrible so I use the road.

Further along between Bottisham and Newmarket you can still see traces of the original concrete slabs of the cycleway by the A1303.

 

[pawl]

From visiting rellys ( by car) back in the 1950s I seem to remember a well kept cycleway all the way along the old A6 trunk road. Or did I dream it?

The length of the A 6 is the section between Loughborough and Derby,a much changed section the building of the M1. The section that had a cycle path was if memory isn’t failing was from Kegworth to Shardlow

Thinking about the above it may have started just after Hathern.
I do rember being out training with a mate,and being stopped by a police car which was the old Morris Mogi and being told in no uncertain terms to get on the cycle path.Being law abiding teenager we complied.In fact it was more about that you didn’t argue with the cops back then.

 

[albion]

Much shown is the ones on the Great North Road, up and west of the centre of Durham.

North of Newcastle we get a modern sop. Quite awkward, some say dangerous when they can just appear on your inside. Motor bikers of course get slowed by the lack of road width.
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastle-cycle-lane-measures-could-10048733

 

[PK99]

The project was abandoned when CTC AGM voted unanimously against such provision...

 

[albion]

I didnt know the CTC had such a project to abandon.

 

[albion]

On checking, Carlton realised his book 'Bike Boom' back in June.
The video I posted was likely part taken on 12th September when our paths crossed.

The Kickstarter site shows a report was to be published for backers, one backer requesting a presentation. (marked for October)
Its an interesting project, many of the pathways certainly worthy of listed building type status

 

[albion]

View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rcKscQLkM3s


That is the original video for promotion of the project. I now suspect Carlton emailed me with a footage link of the video he was shooting, himself asking my views on usage of the Great North Road cycleway when on the A167.

It would be great if all these old ways got history markers. I am curious about the dates of quite a few I have come across. Such as the Haverton Hill cycle path, near Stockton and Middlesborough

 

[Globalti]

That concrete cycleway was good.. it looked like a Dutch cycle route and as a bonus it had a directional force field sucking the cyclist along for no effort.