Photos from yesterday’s ride
20/25 years ago there was a flurry of spending on cycling infrastructure in this part of France .. quite a few Voies Vertes opened (re-purposed former railway lines), towpaths managed and some rest stops constructed. Since then, what money has been available has been spent on maintenance of those projects.
How nice to see therefore that a new
aire de pique-nique is under construction at the site of the former railway station at Pleucadeuc on Brittany’s V3 Voie Verte. Not only that, but a new cycling trail has been built to connect with the D112 (fast road into Pleucadeuc from the west) – but with decent wooden barriers to create a discrete cycle path (compacted sand/grit surface) that extends for about 600m towards Pleucadeuc and then, rather oddly, disappears into some woodland…. hopefully this will be extended. No doubt this will all progress as the summer approaches.
From a personal perspective, it’s great news .. on yesterday’s 6-hour ride around this area, I thought I’d stop at the shelter at Malestroit but it was full of teenage girls who hadn’t cycled there (not a problem – they were having fun – but it would have been nice to have sat down for 5 minutes and eaten a banana). Carried onto the shelter at la Chapelle Caro – two kids inside playing football – so I gave that a miss too. The new stop at Pleucadeuc is about 3km outside the town so it really shouldn’t attract non-cyclists.
Probably of zero interest to anyone other than me – but I had the camera, took some photos and thought I’d share them anyway.
Work in progress (and who knows when it'll be finished) - I'll take a better photo another time
The new exit from the
aire, leading to the protected cycle lane alongside the D112