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Geraint Jones
Guest
You know those things that are claimed to be meant to stop cars and motorbikes getting onto cycle
tracks, but are actually a pain in the proverbial for anyone on a bicycle? I have never understood
the P barriers that seem to be essentially more of an obstacle to bicycles than to anything else --
especially the P barriers facing each other on the cycle half of a pedestrian and cycle bridge on
NCN 51 as it crosses the Oxford northern bypass, which seem designed to encourage cyclists to use
the pedestrian side of the bridge.
I ran (almost literally) into one new to me the other day on the new stretch of NCN 51 as you leave
that nice Richard Branson's back yard (thank you, Mr Branson) for the Hampton Poyle road.
It consists of a pair of galvanised steel tubes each bent into a loop about a foot wide and six foot
tall and set facing each other either side of the cycle track. However they are made to lean towards
each other so that whilst there is room for a pushchair or trailer at ground level, and indeed for
shoulders at shoulder height, only narrow or dropped bars can fit through at sensible handlebar
height. (Fortunately there was an entirely missing ten foot wide field gate alongside.)
What are those about then?
tracks, but are actually a pain in the proverbial for anyone on a bicycle? I have never understood
the P barriers that seem to be essentially more of an obstacle to bicycles than to anything else --
especially the P barriers facing each other on the cycle half of a pedestrian and cycle bridge on
NCN 51 as it crosses the Oxford northern bypass, which seem designed to encourage cyclists to use
the pedestrian side of the bridge.
I ran (almost literally) into one new to me the other day on the new stretch of NCN 51 as you leave
that nice Richard Branson's back yard (thank you, Mr Branson) for the Hampton Poyle road.
It consists of a pair of galvanised steel tubes each bent into a loop about a foot wide and six foot
tall and set facing each other either side of the cycle track. However they are made to lean towards
each other so that whilst there is room for a pushchair or trailer at ground level, and indeed for
shoulders at shoulder height, only narrow or dropped bars can fit through at sensible handlebar
height. (Fortunately there was an entirely missing ten foot wide field gate alongside.)
What are those about then?