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CycleNation

Posted by Tom Bailey on Monday, October 10, 2011,
I'd never heard of this lot until a couple of years ago, they are the body that unites the various local bike campaigner groups around Britain.  They went a bit haywire on twitter last night and posted a (drunken?) rant against various people around Europe:



Is this what happens to you when you spend too much time cycling in Traffic?   Quite Odd really.
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Tyneside Infrastructure Safari Part 1

Posted by Tom Bailey on Thursday, May 26, 2011,
The Coast Road Cycle Path
 
The Coast Road (A1058) is the 8 mile direct route between "The Coast" (Whitley Bay & Tynemouth) and Newcastle City Centre.  Opened in the 1930's it was designed to serve suburban housing estates being constructed by the seaside and take a stream of traffic into the City, at the time there would have been very large numbers of cyclists using it.  In the 1970's large sections of it were "upgraded" to grade separated dual carriageway.  The planners at the time inten...

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