Commuting to work through the busy streets of Chester to afford my cycling addiction.
Chester, England
Joined March 2021
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I'm always more alert around vehicles with bike carriers. The drivers transport their bikes to "safe" locations and then claim to be cyclists with none of the awareness of those of us who cycle on the road. This driver reversed into me yesterday while we were waiting at red light
The driver of this local roofing company equally as impatient. That's my helmet showing at the bottom of the image.
Driver of this BMW couldn't wait 10 seconds for a wider section of road. (Ignore the timecode, I've got another camera that can confirm the accurate time from this morning)
Fettle didn’t last long, at least we still have Bren Bikes and The Bike Factory, plus the big groups like Evans and Halfords. @ShitChester
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Bank Holiday Monday quiz. This gap leads to the Greenway, but from which road?
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Top tip!
If you are going to drive your 4 wheeled shitbox down a one way street shaking your head at a cyclist riding towards you, perhaps be sure that they arent in a cycle lane that allows them to ride the street in the opposing direction.
That way you wont look such a pleb! – at Moston, England
Hopefully they won’t just turn them off, but also put some temporary give way signs at each entrance to the roundabout. Roundabouts seem to confuse many drivers.
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The council will be turning off the traffic lights and installing a temporary pedestrian crossing on St Oswald way to monitor effects on traffic and to help pedestrians and cyclists. Do you think this will make Fountains roundabout safer for cyclists?
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🚦 A new scheme to improve Fountains Roundabout in Chester for both motorists and pedestrians will be trialled next week, from Monday 12 May the existing traffic signals will be switched off to assess how the junction operates for all road users 👉 cwac.co/2q7UY
ALT The Fountains Roundabout in Chester
Driver completely confused by new road markings and traffic signal layout, misses 2 stop lines and stops across the cycle crossing waiting for the strangely positioned 3rd traffic signal in this layout. Why is that additional traffic signal there?
April last year the opposite path was scraped back, and again in Feb this year, shows a clear need for routes like this to be part of a regular schedule of sweeping and maintenance teapawt.net/corrimal7/status/17792…
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Work party yesterday on the cycle path at the side of the Tarvin roundabout. Over the years grass had encroached onto the track, halving its usable width. A couple of hours of hard work it is now back to original size! Thanks to Hannah and Garrett from Streetcare at CWAC
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👏 A big thank you to volunteers from Chester Cycling Campaign, who worked with our Your Streets team on the A51 in Littleton to clear back vegetation and mud to widen the footpath to make room for both cyclists and pedestrians again 👉 cwac.co/rZ8eK @chester_cycling
ALT Volunteers working with the Your Streets team at Littleton
ALT Volunteers working with the Your Streets team at Littleton
ALT The cleared path after volunteers and our Your Streets team cleared away vegetation and mud.
I used to think that was the one they were fixing, but the sandbags are further up by the pond on the opposite side. Left marker is where the sandbags are, your photo appears to be from the right marker?
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Cyclists be aware: sudden drop in road surface from poor quality utility work. Highways are aware and will hopefully force original contractors to fix asap.
Unfortunately what we have too many of is careless drivers.
Our cities do not need driverless cars.
They desperately need more carless drivers!
—Struin BSO in #Nijmegen
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@RantyHighwayman here in Chester’s we are losing ASLs when traffic lights are being refurbished. Have we missed some change in the rules? Can you have an ASL without a feeder lane? Grateful if anyone knows the answer