Farcilities - reversible!

Reminds me of a very similar farcility around here and I have asked
about removing it, but they are reluctant to consider it without an
alternative being in place.

It's a red coloured hardstrip of standard width (might actually be
narrower) that is badly potholed and full of crud. It's impossible with
a road bike and I get abuse for ignoring it.

ed_o_brain said:

Reminds me of a very similar farcility around here and I have asked
about removing it, but they are reluctant to consider it without an
alternative being in place.

It's a red coloured hardstrip of standard width (might actually be
narrower) that is badly potholed and full of crud. It's impossible with
a road bike and I get abuse for ignoring it.

Wouldn't it be fun to organise a protest by getting a large group
together to cycle along the road in single file, and when they reach
the farcility to leap off, shoulder the bike in a cyclo-cross stylee,
run the short length of the lane, then leap back on the bike and carry
on. With a carefully designed circuit a group of twenty or so riders
could keep that up for hours. Local press and even TV would love it.
Ridicule is a powerful weapon.

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ed_o_brain said:

Reminds me of a very similar farcility around here and I have asked
about removing it, but they are reluctant to consider it without an
alternative being in place.

It already is: there's a serviceable road there!

Pete.
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Nick Kew <[email hidden]>typed

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I've contemplated once or twice proposing a local farcility
as a candidate for collections like the Warrington pages.

If you think it's a candidate email it to Pete Owens and let him decide
whether to put it up. He adds some lovely captions!

Emailing photos is fairly easy & cheap nowadays...

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Edgware.

Nick Kew said:

I can't remember this happening, but the farcility is now
gone, and the road is back to a normal road+pavement.

On the topic of farcilities that one never got round to sending in:

My local favourite (cycle path that decides to go down a flight of
steps turning a blind 90 degree corner with walls on each side at the
bottom), is now a twice-as-wide gentle ramp, with a sizeable turning
space where the corner was.

Now I'll have to send the one that's a cycle route sign pointing down
a path, straight at the sign saying "no cycling on this path", but
it's not so scary.

regards, Ian SMith
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Ian Smith <[email hidden]> whizzed past me shouting

Quoted message said:

My local favourite (cycle path that decides to go down a flight of
steps turning a blind 90 degree corner with walls on each side at the
bottom), is now a twice-as-wide gentle ramp, with a sizeable turning
space where the corner was.

That sounds fun, I'm sorry I never had a chance to ride my mountain bike
down it.

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Bicycle helmets are really a bit of a scam.
They make most cyclists slightly less safe but there's money in selling them.