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> In message <[email protected]>, MartinM
> <[email protected]> writes
> >You may all remember one of Esther Rantzen's staff being killed after
> >colliding on a bike with a rollerblader on one of the Hyde Park cycle
lanes.
> >The solution to this potential problem was to add a gravel unskateable
> >coating to all but the cycle lane, ie all the footpaths. So we now have
to
> >share the ~ 3m wide cycle lane with bladers, who often zig zig all over
the
> >path in front of cyclists. I have collided with one. Well done Westminter
> >city council (or Royal Parks or whoever maintains the park).
>
> I was cycling there this afternoon at the corner near Marble Arch -
> didn't notice any gravel. I did see a roller blader fall on her
> backside, though.
well the whole footpath has been re-surfaced in a gravelly surface, the bit
I am referring to is the wide path with just a narrow cycle lane down the
East side all the way down to Hyde Park Corner, not very noticeable on a
bike but the skaters do not appear to be able to use it. The corner right
next to the Marble Arch one way sytem is all no cycling anyway, the cycle
path goes along the carraige drive towards Lancaster Gate, and has large
"Psyclepath closed" signs whenever they are planning a major event like like
Party in the Park/Proms etc (ie about 1/4 of the time by the time they set
it up and take it away) as it is full of HGV's and buggies to take TV people
who cannot use their legs between the car park and the actual venue. All
cyclists sensibly ignore this sign preferring to avoid parked HGV's etc than
mix it with the traffic on Bayswater Road.