Travelling home from work this evening along the Bath-Bristol cyclepath, I was incensed to find that in addition to the speed bumps at the Meadow Court Drive crossing I am now required to negotiate bollards spaced barely further apart than my handlebar. Are there not enough obstacles for cyclists to negotiate at access points as it is?
Thank goodness I was riding a bicycle without a trailer, as it appears that you wish to eliminate tricyclists (including handicapped cyclists) and families with children towed in trailers from the cyclepath. It is ironic that these obstacles have been positioned so close to a wheelchair access point - it now seems pointless to have wheelchair access points at Victoria Road, Meadow Court Drive and Bitton Station.
Or perhaps you simply wish to increase accident rates among the inexperienced and unprepared. When I returned to take measurements I was pleasantly surprised to find that the central bollards were lit (although with a light remarkably similar to a rear cycle lamp, perhaps green would have been a better choice of colour). Nevertheless I look forward to the court case when the first cyclist without a powerful off-road lighting system hits one of the unlit bollards during the coming winter.
As a South Gloucestershire council tax payer, I must object to my taxes being spent in this manner.
I shall be forwarding copies of this e-mail to CTC and BCC.
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Danny Colyer
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