CYCLISTS vs. BUSES * UK - Historic UK cycle path under threat from buses
The first ever path on the UK’s National Cycle Network is under threatBath,UK -BikeRadar.com, by Rosee Woodland -20 Jan 2008: -- ... The 13 mile Bristol to Bath Railway was the first to built by the country's leading cycling charity Sustrans between 1979 and 1986... But local transport chiefs want to turn part of it into a bus lane... The path is used by thousands of cyclists and walkers each year, and is completely car-free, but parts of it run parallel to busy main roads in Bristol and a disused railway... It is on these sections of the route that the West of England Partnership -an umbrella group for the four main local councils - wants to install the bus lane... The proposals were first mooted several years ago, including the use of hybrid fuel buses along the path, but then seemed to die a death... However, they have now been revived and form a major part of the partnership’s plans for the next decade... (Bikeradar - The Bristol to Bath path is under threat)
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