All fully operational now. Been for a ride all the way along this morning. Not just there, the valley garden works seem to be almost done with all three sections open (weirdy they opened the middle section first, then early this week the bit by st peter's church, and today the bit by the University/King and Queen was now open, allowing me to cycle on the cycle path from the level to the old steine. It's currently nice and smooth, but they appear to have planted young trees along side the new cycle path, which is obviously going to lead to big tree roots growing and making the path uneven as it is around the level.
It was close to 10am, so most of the morning traffic had cleared, the approach from the steine to the roundabout was quite clear (only two cars waiting as I approached), the traffic along the other side of the roundabout was constantly moving, albeit slowly. For the first bit it felt like I was the only one using the on road cycle lane, but past the bottom of west street I caught up with a couple more, and noticed as we went along more cyclists realising it was now open and coming off the pavement path to join the one on the road. It may take a few days or more for people to get used to it, but I think it will eventually get a good amount of usage, certainly more so than the one at old shoreham road. I've used the OSR one a couple of times, but only on days off when I'm using it just to use it rather than to get anywhere in particular.
I understand that the changes are not overly popular with drivers, to say the least, and I don't mean to say this to wind up drivers, but I rather enjoyed my morning cycle on both new paths
It was close to 10am, so most of the morning traffic had cleared, the approach from the steine to the roundabout was quite clear (only two cars waiting as I approached), the traffic along the other side of the roundabout was constantly moving, albeit slowly. For the first bit it felt like I was the only one using the on road cycle lane, but past the bottom of west street I caught up with a couple more, and noticed as we went along more cyclists realising it was now open and coming off the pavement path to join the one on the road. It may take a few days or more for people to get used to it, but I think it will eventually get a good amount of usage, certainly more so than the one at old shoreham road. I've used the OSR one a couple of times, but only on days off when I'm using it just to use it rather than to get anywhere in particular.
I understand that the changes are not overly popular with drivers, to say the least, and I don't mean to say this to wind up drivers, but I rather enjoyed my morning cycle on both new paths