One of my favourite routes to get out of the river valley from Rossdale is an old, slightly neglected bike path that runs parallel to 97 Ave. It’s a gentle climb over several blocks, and now it has 50% less bollards!
They took out half of those bloody bollards!
And now that there’s one less bollard in the way, anyone hauling a trailer now actually has a chance to make it up the hill.
This path continues into the Legislative grounds where you can access the High Level Bridge and becomes a much more pleasant, though slightly steeper ride.
Choose your flavor of bumpy – poorly maintained asphalt or sidewalk slabs.
The Leg ground paths have not, however, gone on a bollard diet, and still continue to stand as a monument to the 80’s.
There is a (fairly) new cycle bridge in the town (Aylesbury, GB) where I live. It is known as the Bourg Walk. (google it, and it should come up)
It would be a real challenge with a trailer, or even with a heavily loaded bike with bulging panniers.
Yep – it is a set of bollards.
And they don’t just run straight – they are set out in a “triangle pattern”, so you have to go through at an angle to the normal direction of travel.
I suspect the bollard layout is to stop trouble-makers on small motorcycles using the bridge.
But it is a major pain in the …. (Insert word as appropriate).
Not many trailer users in our town, though.
One guy has a very nice 2-wheel aluminium “box” trailer, that looks like it locks. I sometimes see him about, and he seems to do quite a bit of leaflet delivery using the trailer.
Apart from that, a few mum’s (and one dad!) have those little kiddie trailers that hold 2 very small kids, or one small-medium size one.
Glad your back blogging after your summer break.
I await your future posts with interest!
So that you can see what our 5-offset- bollard bridge looks like, I wrote a short blog piece on it, with picture.
Yes, it was your article that got me thinking about bollards more than usual, and, of course, I have linked to your piece from mine.
might have helped if I actually included the link 🙂
http://2nd-gear.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/how-many-bollards-do-bridge-need.html
i would have just popped the pic into the comments, but i’m not sure if that works on wordpress like it does on facebook.
if i can drop in a pic into “comments”, then advice on how would be useful 🙂
Sorry for so many running comments – I guess I out to plan better before comenting, rather than being spontaneous 🙂