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"For some strange reason I am beginning to think Christine dislikes cyclists."
I would correct you, immediately, on this JanH. Please, do not read into something that is not there.
There is a place for everything, and, to a certain extent, everything has its place.
We, or, it would appear, I am a lone voice on this forum. Asking for a sensible attitude towards a quiet walkway, along a lovely River, in the centre of our Town. With beautiful Weeping Willows, a Bowling Green, where, in the quiet Summer months, a gentle sport for people is carried out. We lost, Brook House, in this area of the Town, to a very little used Car Park, since the demise of The White Cliffs Experience. This had Tennis Courts and beautiful Gardens.
I say to you, it is criminal to have a dead-end cycle-path here, at grave expense to flooding etc. etc. The wild-life and beautiful trees etc.
You may giggle and take the peeeed.
I think something like this is worth a effort of looking at again, and understand that it need not happen.